HRC complaints: get out of jail free
July 23, 2008
That seems to be the tactic at work here, at any rate.
EDMONTON - A law student representing one of the young men charged in connection with a violent group assault on an Edmonton soccer dad says the teens may take the case to the Alberta Human Rights Commission.
Gurpreet Gil says the parents of opposition team members made inappropriate comments to the players in the moments before alleged assault.
“There were some racist remarks,” Gill said outside court.
Of course, the allegation of Racism on the part of the victim totally justifies the fact that five people associated with an under-18 soccer team from Mill Woods swarmed and viciously beat Dean Smith, the father of one of the players on the LaPerle soccer team (which, by the way, the Mill Woods team defeated in a match). Indeed, the allegation of racism totally removes any culpability the five young men might have had in the beating of Mr. Smith, which required his jaw to be wired shut and has resulted in vision damage in one of his eyes!
I suppose it would be racist of me to observe that the only named attacker (the only one who is older than 18 years of age) has a vaguely…Arabic, or possibly Indian subcontinental, name?
This is a markedly better tactic than the insanity plea: if successful, the five attackers will probably be cleared on all charges. Meanwhile, Mr. Smith will be tarred and feathered as a racist hatemonger, and might even be made to pay damages to the youths who attacked him.
Justice, at last thou hast come!
