Last month, we told you about the “Gilbert Goons,” a group of primarily white teenagers from privileged communities in Gilbert, Arizona tied to a series of attacks on students in the region. Well, they’re learning the lesson all privileged white kids learn: it helps when you know people.
A kid was arrested in connection with one of the attacks, which have left at least one dead and many hospitalized after being attacked at random in mall and other public parking lots, but being the stepson of a school principal in the district, he had the charges dropped by the prosecutor, the Arizona Republic reports.
The father of the victim in that attack said police notified him that prosecutors refused to charge the teen, even though the attack against his child had been recorded and posted online, as many of the attacks had been. “I’m super pissed about this,” he told the newspaper. “Where are people supposed to go for justice?”