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No one with proper educationdecent human should need to go through paragraphs in order to understand that violence is bad.
on the other hand, no one with much experience of skateboarding or even spending time on the streets in an urban environment can fail to understand that avoiding violence isn't always easy, a choice, or in some cases even possible.
Except, in this case, it pretty easily was.
Nothing I've seen or heard so far as suggested to me that Jesse was an angry person looking to hurt someone, which doesn't mean he is innocent, but people on here are calling for his head like he dismembered a hitchhiker. The post I responded to suggests people involved in violence aren't "decent," and I think that's overly simplistic. Jesse's probably as "decent" as most of us, people accusing him and the rest of mob mentality should take a look at themselves.
Jesse had ample time to leave the situation before it evolved into what it became. That isn't some quick thing that became unavoidable. How long do you think Dan was out there asking them to leave, and putting up barricades. That is a completely avoidable situation. The only person this wasn't really avoidable for was Dan who was doing his job, and it appears that the biggest transgression was trying to confiscate a skateboard after people stayed skating and moving the barricades.
Are you fucking serious? This right here is the problem with how people are viewing this. What happened to this dude is a tragedy, and everything would be better if they had left the first time he asked. No question.
But to say it was unavoidable for him is asinine. He could have realized there were 8 unpredictable young men. He could have called the police and watched. He could have have kept fucking with barriers and called the police. He could have done 1000 other things than grab a board and begin actual aggression. He could have taken that first push, called the cops, and kept his distance. He could have not gotten up and started swinging at the first person he saw (if we're going to belive that's how it went down).
I'm not at all saying he brought this awful fate on himself, and not at all saying he caused the horrible chain of events, but getting physical with 8 guys in any way (even just grabbing a board) wass 100% avoidable.
Every single person in the situation, Dan included, could have made decisions to avoid the outcome they wound up with.
Seriously, he's paid to get skaters and trespassers to leave the property. I doubt cops are responding quickly. And, I doubt anythig close to this happening has happened in his 10 years working Black Rock. I'm sure he asked/told them a bunch of times before he resorted to grabbing one of their boards (which I wouldn't call aggression). So, trying to grab the board from one person still skating the spot, makes it an attack on 8 people?
Out of everyone involved, he had by far the least amount of chance to change what happened. He was there doing his job, the skaters could have left to one other spot. They live in the area, this isn't like they were in a spot for one day trying to get one trick at a specific spot (not that, that would excuse what happened).
GX1000 or at least Jesse Vieira and the other dudes are 100% in the wrong. And, trying to defend it by saying "well he grabbed their board" as the first act of aggression is ridiculous. If grabbing property is the first act of aggression in your eyes, isn't moving the barricades he's trying to put up qualify long before he grabbed a board?