Burned teen 911 call released: we’re all ’snitches’ now
Family members hold a picture of Deerfield Beach teenager Michael Brewer, who was set on fire by a group of middle school classmates.
The vicious beat-down that killed an honors student in Chicago … the spray shooting of a party in Overtown that killed an aspiring nurse and a high school senior with a full scholarship letter from UCLA waiting for him at home … and now the unbelievable attack on a 15-year-old by six of his schoolmates, who doused him with rubbing alcohol and set him on fire, because he told someone that one of them tried to steal his father’s bike … there’s a pernicious, and I think it’s fair to say evil, unethical strain running through out culture, and if you dig into each of these shootings, you’re sure to find one word somewhere at the bottom of the barrell: “snitch.”
A snitch used to mean a guy who participates in a crime and then gives up his buddies to save his own neck. Now, the way the word has been popularized in American culture, it means anyone who reports a crime, even if they’re the victim. And there are sociopaths of all ages (even kids) walking around our neighborhoods with all sorts of pathologies and issues, killing, or attempting to kill, people because they’ve told the truth.
The audio below should be played for every teenager in America. And how ever many of us haven’t been completely stripped of our morality, turned into so many grubby Gosselins or hot air balloon publicity hounds or teabagging lunatics, should band together and pledge to “snitch” on every bastard who threatens to further destabilize our already unstable society. Listen, if you can get through it, to the screams of a kid who spoke up, and who still might pay for it with his life. Michael Brewer is 15 — and 15 is just a kid, as you’ll hear from his screams after jumping into a pool, on fire. **WARNING: This audio will make you cry (or at least it should…)
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