A 16-year-old was babysitting his girlfriend’s 23-month-old son. The baby wouldn’t stop crying so he covered the boy’s head with a pillow and punched him in the head until his brain bled. The child died. At trial, the teen sobbed and screamed that he’d loved him. Then the judge read out a phone call he’d made from jail and it ended him.
The boy’s name was Austin Smith. He was 23 months old. The 16-year-old, Dylan, was left alone to watch him and when Austin wouldn’t settle, he smothered him with a pillow and beat him in the head with his fists. The toddler suffered a brain hemorrhage and died.
In the courtroom, Dylan put on a performance. He cried hard. He screamed that he never meant to kill anyone, that he loved little Austin, that it was all a terrible mistake. For a moment, it almost looked like it might work on the jury.
Then the judge pulled out a recording a call Dylan had made to his own mother from jail, before the trial. On it, in his own voice, he’d laid out the plan: “I’m a 16-year-old blond kid. I just need to cry in front of the jury and they’ll feel sorry for me.”
He hadn’t been grieving. He’d been rehearsing.
The judge handed him the maximum: 25 years to life.
So here’s what splits people: is 25-to-life too heavy for a 16-year-old who still has a whole life ahead of him or does a boy who kills a baby for crying, then coldly games the court with fake tears, deserve to never walk free at all?
👀 Senator @scott_colom: “It’s not accurate to say @SenSchumer recruited me. The people of Mississippi recruited me… you think I was listening to someone that lives in Brooklyn?”
Wow, very different picture than the one Schumer + his allies are painting.
(H/T @ClippingWings)
raping her, comfortably walking around fucking naked in her home, and then denying it the next day. i'm so disgusted.
he deactivated/privated as rapists always do ... but same user on all platforms, keep talking about it. @/ogxtp
Soooooooo the same week we find out that the West Africans are here in the US killing other West African children, we find out that a West African owned the building in Brooklyn that collapsed on all those kids. I wonder what @AttorneyCrump and @NationalAction will do?
“It’s my house. It’s not yours.”
A Palestinian-American man who travelled from Texas to his hometown of Turmus Ayya in the occupied West Bank confronted Israeli soldiers who illegally seized and stationed themselves inside his home after they refused him entry.
Carrying an American flag and his bag, Naji Abu Awad demanded to know why the soldiers were occupying his property and when they would leave.
This PERFECTLY demonstrates what white supremacy is about. They hate black people and would rather try to hurt or slight them than helping someone. Pure spite.
@big_motiv8@Chetuyachinago Your own scholars credit Black Americans for keeping the energy of your history alive, not mfs like you. Fancy me, when did Mali start enslaving Arabs?
So today we learned 91 Florida cops were on epstein’s payroll. 91 police offers ignored a child kidnap & rape club for money. Think about that okay
Warren Buffett wrote to his granddaughter: "I have not emotionally or legally adopted you as a grandchild." She had spent every spring break at his house.
In the video below, she reads that letter on camera. At the end, she tells what happened 16 years later. Watch it to the end.
Nicole was a little girl when Buffett’s son Peter adopted her. She called Warren "Grandpa" and grew up visiting him in Omaha with her twin sister.
Warren paid for her education. After school, the money stopped. That was the family rule.
So in 2006 she was working as a nanny for a rich family in San Francisco. She called it “a very weird thing,” since her own family was richer than the one she worked for.
That year she appeared in a documentary about wealth. The director asked how her grandfather would react. Her answer: "Money is the spoke in my grandfather’s wheel of life."
After the shoot, the letter came. It also said the rest of the family hadn’t adopted her "as a niece or a cousin."
It was signed "Warren." A card from the year before was signed “Grandpa.”
The same year, Buffett announced he would give most of his fortune to charity. His late wife Susan had called Nicole one of her "adored grandchildren" and left her $100,000 in her will.
My take: Buffett’s rule for his kids was to leave them enough to do anything, but not so much they could do nothing. I think that rule is right.
But this letter wasn’t about money. It was about one sentence said on camera.
In 2022 Nicole said she had just received her first email ever from him. He wrote that he was happy she was doing so well. That was 16 years after the letter.
Was Buffett right to draw that line, or did one sentence cost too much?
Money stayed in the Buffett family by rules, not by love. How the richest families in history set those rules, in the article below ⏬