<<9 people were attacked that night.>>
Please define "attack" otherwise you are just spouting meaningless drivel. While weeping and moaning about the "attacks" of unspecified nature, but presumably minor enough that NONE of them warranted headlines at the time, your indifference to the railroading of innocent black youths by racist pigs into forced confessions, sham trials and wrongful convictions on serious charges makes apparently no impression whatever on you. Typical of all white racist oppressors, you are hyper-alert to the wrongdoing (or in this case, even the POTENTIAL for wrongdoing) of young black males and totally indifferent to the injustices committed upon them by racist pigs and court officers.
<<But hell, these are just black boys, products of the ghetto, government wards, police can have them crapping in their pants anytime they want. Make them cop any plea. >>
As it turns out, that is pretty much how it went down.
<<Because they really don't have it in them to be real thugs, being mamas boys and all. >>
Maybe you know something that I don't. DID any of them turn out to be "real thugs?" Like the KKK? Like those rednecks who dragged a black man chained by the ankles to their pickup truck down country roads till his head came off? Because if you're looking for 'real thugs" I think you better get off your high horse and quit the speculative chase after these kids, convicted of actually NOTHING and start looking at some REAL thugs, the rednecks and crackers all around you. THEM, you don't have to speculate about.