“I don’t like how you all are slandering my daughter’s name and making her look like she such a known criminal when she’s not such a known criminal. It doesn’t matter how many cars she stole.”
-Yashica Clemmons, the mother of Dominique Battle

I’m 30, broke many laws as a teen/did some stupid shit too, also make in the 6-figures. Most rule breakers, with direction, are more successful than rule followers. The difference is that if we died in one of those escapades our folks wouldn’t sue the cops and blame them. This is about accepting accountability.…

The police did all they could so everything else you wrote is irrelevant. I will clarify that I blame their parents, not the police. Dying a painful death doesn’t change someone making a stupid decision. These weren’t passengers on the damn Titanic. If the cops pulled them over and then promptly shot all three that…

Oftentimes, there is a lot of blame to go around. No one talks about the victim of the stolen car. Three girls stole a car, those are their actions. Their actions led to this sad ending. You cannot expect to be protected from your own actions 100% of the time, and then on that slim chance, now you are victim of your…

Yeah I am - rightly so. Where the hell were their parents? It’s their fault this happened, plain and simple....if we are allowing ourselves to point fingers at someone being at fault. It sure as heck isn’t the cops, the guy whose car they stole, or racist bigots.

That’s awesome! Not argument against having a good, strong culture. It is something these families appear to lack.

Yeah, first responder here (volunteer fire fighter/EMT) . One of the first things I do when I enter a rescue scenario, is to access the safety of the scene. Patrol officers are not trained in the kind of skills needed to pull off this particular rescue. This is a very specialized kind of skill, and one that you need…

And the young lady driving that car caused the death of her friends. She dit it. And it’s tragic. I tell my kids that they are going to decide to do stupid things. I ask them to consider the worst result of their actions. More than anything, kids need to be able to effectively evaluate risk.

Noone deserves to die, however there is little the cops could of done as opposed to the teenage parents.

I blame the pond.

They’re dead because their favorite passtime was stealing cars, and on this occasion they stole one and drove it into a pond. It’s not a question of whether they “deserved” it. Nobody deserves to die for stealing a car, but they were quite clearly responsible for what happened.

Bingo! They didn’t care about risking other innocent peoples lives when they were running from the cops. Sometimes karma takes a while, other times it’s instant.

Millions die every year of preventable diseases and harsh poverty. Three over privileged brats died because of their own reckless behavior. Sorry, I’m not at all sad about that.

“If I believed in God, I’d pray for you.” ... That is some real condescending crap.

This is a quote from one of the parents:

I’m from the area and the “pond” they went into had 20-50 feet of reeds and muck before the water actually starts. There would be no way a human could have made it through that into the pond and rescued them. But of course the news won’t report that, they would rather sensationalize the girls deaths.

People on this thread are idiots, seriously. They’ve seen too many Hollywood films. Staging a nighttime rescue in a pond at night with zero visibility (in Florida where Alligators are everywhere), with not even so much as a fucking snorkel, good luck. I would bid anyone on this thread to try it even in the fucking…

Thank you. It’s also Florida, there’s fucking alligators all over the place, and people need to remember that staging an underwater rescue at night (without the right equipment) is borderline impossible.

The punishment isn’t the death penalty but the consequences of evading cops and driving into a pond can be dying. Pulling over would have avoided that.

Doubt you’d be okay with your 15-year-old getting a tattoo. All the reasons why are the problems it indicates. In general kids who are “doing the right thing and going somewhere” don’t have tattoos in 9-10th grade.