When An Adult Fractures a 13-Year-Old's Skull For Not Taking His Hat Off During the Anthem
this Is Nationalism Run Amok!!!
(PasteMagazine) To write on the Internet is to come across some enraging stories, but this one feels more than simply enraging—it feels emblematic. At a county fair and rodeo in Montana, a 39-year-old man allegedly slammed a 13-year-old boy to the ground, fracturing his skull. That boy’s crime? Not removing his hat during the national anthem. Curt Rockway, the grown-ass man, has been charged with felony assault of a minor. Read the sickening details, from Slate:
“He said (the boy) was disrespecting the national anthem so he had every right to do that,” eyewitness Taylor Hennick said. Brockway told a sheriff’s deputy that he had asked the boy to remove his hat for the anthem and that the boy cursed in response, though eyewitnesses did not corroborate that portion of Brockway’s retelling.
“There was a little boy lying on the ground,” Hennick told the Missoulian. “He was bleeding out of his ears, seizing on the ground, just not coherent.”
The boy had to be flown to a children’s hospital in Spokane, WA, and according to his parents he bled from his ears for six hours.
Now, it can be easy to read too much into an isolated incident like this, but it’s hard not to see it as the nationalist sickness consuming huge swaths of America. Five days ago, we read about a 29-year-old Kentucky man beating up a 61-year-old outside a Trump rally, and the motivation seems to have been little more than the fact that the older man was protesting in the first place.
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https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2019/08/montana-man-fracture-13-year-old-skull-national-an.html
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