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https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2019/06/03/emmanuel-aranda-sentenced-to-19-years-for-throwing-boy-off-mall-of-america-balcony/
Three years ago today, Landen Hoffman was thrown from a balcony at a shopping mall, and plummeted about 40 feet to an unforgiving tile floor. I'm sure almost all of you are familiar with the “random” attack on this 5-year-old boy, but it’s worth taking a moment to remember.
As horrifying as it was, what Landen went through is not the kind of thing I normally write about here, since Landen overcame his terrible injuries and survived, despite the best efforts of his attacker. I do not write about such cases – nonfatal violent crimes by blacks against whites – because there are far too many of them, and the overwhelming majority are never reported except as a statistic. Over half a million attacks every year in the United States, or about 1500 every day.
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Three years ago today, Landen Hoffman was thrown from a balcony at a shopping mall, and plummeted about 40 feet to an unforgiving tile floor. I'm sure almost all of you are familiar with the “random” attack on this 5-year-old boy, but it’s worth taking a moment to remember.
As horrifying as it was, what Landen went through is not the kind of thing I normally write about here, since Landen overcame his terrible injuries and survived, despite the best efforts of his attacker. I do not write about such cases – nonfatal violent crimes by blacks against whites – because there are far too many of them, and the overwhelming majority are never reported except as a statistic. Over half a million attacks every year in the United States, or about 1500 every day.
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https://pic8.co/sh/AAdIxG.jpg
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