[quote name='Admiral Ackbar']AUSTIN, Texas - Police on Wednesday were pleading for witnesses to help them track down members of an angry mob that beat a man to death after the car he was riding in apparently struck and injured a child.
Investigators were struggling to piece together what happened Tuesday when David Rivas Morales died defending the driver from members of a crowd leaving a Juneteenth celebration. There could have been anywhere from two to 20 attackers, Austin Police Commander Harold Piatt said.
The car in which Morales, 40, was a passenger had entered an apartment complex's parking lot when it struck a 3- or 4-year-old child, Piatt said. The child was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The driver got out of the car to check on the child and was confronted by several people, Piatt said. When they attacked the driver, Morales got out of the car to protect the driver and was attacked as well. Police said no guns or knives were used.
The driver got away and is cooperating with investigators, who are not releasing his name.
Texas Justice.[/quote]I think beating the driver was a little unnecessary when he tried to help the child and see if she was all right. Then again, I'm thinking of what happens in the Midwest is not the same as what happens in Texas. Well, Texas has the death penalty. I say they should go an eye for an eye as the person who died did absolutely nothing wrong.