Comments by "ElephantInTheRoom " (@elephantintheroom5678) on "NewsNation" channel.

@brich6875 They were being tortured for years. They had chronic PTSD. That is mitigating circumstances.
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ONE of them might have had that intent. Unless they find evidence to the contrary on their phones, a genuine argument that they ALL shared that intent (and are therefore equally to blame) cannot be made.
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That's not a convincing argument at all. People in America carry guns everywhere, in the name of self defence.
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You can't have man-eating alligators slinking around.
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@sylerbo So true. What teenager would imagine that going to egg house would end up with being on trial for murder? (*Assuming, of course, that the phones don't prove premeditation). Lot's of teenagers play foolish pranks, or do risky stunts, never thinking it could end in disaster.
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@My2CentsYall She was homeless; maybe she went there for a poop, or a wash.
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@rayray8687 Well, I think that is wrong. How could the others have known that one would suddenly shoot someone (if there wasn't a prior plan to do so?). One minute you think you are going to throw some eggs, the next you're guilty of shooting bullets - even if you didn't!
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@sylerbo Exactly! Imagine being a teenager up to a foolish prank on someone, and then one of the people you're with just pulls out gun and shoots the person!
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@rayray8687 They threw eggs at his house - not "lured" him from his house (which implies intent). Also, "the three" can't all pull the trigger at once.
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@rayray8687 If the others went there solely to egg the house (a reasonably benign action similar to actions many teenagers have engaged in) and had no intention to shoot the victim, then there is no reasonable way they "should have known" that one of them would go back to the car, take out a gun, and shoot the victim. Case closed.
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@rayray8687 Yes, but only ONE person pulled the trigger, and until there is proof either of the others knew that was intended, then they will likely only be found guilty of egging a building.
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Who is Israel to say who will govern any part of Palestine? It is an extremely racist, colonialist point of view to even mention it, let alone tell another people who their government can be!
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@rayray8687 Of course teenagers who've egged a house would run back to the car after a homeowner comes running out of it - nothing suspicious there. Also, once in the car, if one unexpectedly pulls out a gun and shoots the victim, the others are going to be so frightened that they want to get the heck away, lest they get the blame - nothing proving guilt there, either. It's just how a "reasonable" person would expect them to behave in such circumstances.
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@supowell1 Obviously you have no idea about how complex PTSD trauma works.
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@MartinBernadez I don't care. Other animals get rid of predators that prey upon their own, if they can. It's a law of nature.
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@rayray8687 And if no-one expected it to happen, that proves the others at least may be guilty of nothing other than egging a house.
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@valerierodger You'll see.
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@valerierodger You're assuming they "hung around," when in fact, he could have run out almost immediately upon noticing his house was being egged. So many foolish assumptions. Assumptions don't win murder cases.
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@valerierodger Now you can know people's thoughts, and can read them from the future - WOW!
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@user-rz3cr1zi4y What they needed was a micro-camera to actually record the abuse. They were not available to the public back in those days. Unless they actually recorded their own abuse there would still be people in the comments claiming they were lying. Even if they did, people would say they were colluding in their own abuse. There is no way to win, for an abused person, it is as if the world wants abusers to get away with it. It makes you wonder how many abusers there are out there. And then you take a look at the statistics, and you realise exactly why so many people in the comments are adamant that the brothers had no right to strike back against the torturers.
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@darkguardian1314 On both sides.
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@nybsbfan18 Exactly. Who knows?
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@creativecorner2071 Oh! They "had to have known" what was going to happen, hey? As if everyone hasn't been blindsided by someone else's behaviour at some time! People marry people they are are sure they know well enough to trust, only for them to find out otherwise later. Besides, these are very young people, young enough to have not developed much judgement of human character yet. If the others are not proven to have known beforehand that one would shoot (intent), then they are only guilty of vandalism.
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@davidsirmons My sentiments exactly; however, we shall see what the outcome will be.
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I like Rosie O'Donnell very much for caring so much for innocent strangers.
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But...is there ANY real PROOF that the other two went there with malice to murder? And did the trigger woman ever suggest to the others that she had a gun, and might murder him? Maybe she told them she wanted to get revenge and intimidate him. It seems a reach, to charge all three with malice murder. Only in Georgia.
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I wonder WHY she did it, personally. It is so out of the ordinary, one wonders what inspired it.
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@theothegreat4459 I'm glad that savage reptile was killed. It deserved it.
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@darkguardian1314 I agree!
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@silencemeviolateme6076 I'm so pleased you can read minds and tell the future. You could make a fortune on the lottery, or in stocks.
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Ah... the manipulative spider women thesis... I've heard that one before, somewhere... @qtown639
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I really hope they go free. I always thought they were innocent, right from the beginning. Even back then the abuse was known about, anti seemed so wrong to me that it was treated as irrelevant!
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Why do they think that insane people can't be sneaky? Of course they can.
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