Woahh!!!!
Hold up everybody! I think you're missing the point of our posts. We need legal advice in this matter. I can appreciate all of your opinions, but this was a cry for help.
Furthermore, pimpsta33 is not a gang member, pimp, drug dealer, or any other related stereotypes of a young black male in America. He is a college student who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The name pimpsta is an old high school nick name that stuck with him as an Internet handle. In these times I think we all know that a nick name on the web certainly does not portray one's lifestyle.
I am a college graduate, and a computer programmer in Dallas Texas. I am also white. Not that the color of our skin makes a bit of difference, I just thought I would point that out. Also, do we have any other educated people in this forum? Did any of you ever take a class on media, or journalism, etc? What you read in the papers isn't always exactly right. Mr. Glenn did his best to describe what happend on December 7th and the events thereafter. However, he was not there. One man in our car was yelling profane phrases (as stated in the first post) and the men in the other car said nothing. There was not a "heated exchange of words."
I don't know where the "drugs" came from, but there were none in our car. The asians were not at the club that we were at, and we did not have any altercation prior to the meeting at the stop light. No wallets were reported stolen. I did however notice $80 missing from my own wallet when I got my personal belongings back from the hospital. None of us are/were at the time, gangsters, drug dealers, criminals, etc. 3 college students, 2 college graduates. In reference to my website...what occurs on Internet message boards, guestbooks, etc. has no correlation with what happened the night of the murder.
Some of the posts on here are really sad and quite pathetic. I can't sleep at night because I have images burned into memory of holding my friends hand in an ambulance all the way the hospital only to ultimately watch him die on the operating table next to me. Meanwhile, I was being operated on for my own wounds/broken bones, etc. The aftermath was even worse. I went to a friend's funeral in a wheelchair doped up on morphine, lost my job, and doctors say I'll be walking with a can through the summer. I have a 4 year old daughter that I can't pick up or play with like I used to, and she doesn't even understand why. And you're telling me all of this happend because 4 of my friend's skin color is darker than ours? Or because my friend's Internet handle may have some slight depiction of the kind of music he likes? You are wrong sir! We were shot because another human has little or no value of the human life.
Look, the reason we made a post was to ascertain legal advice. We were not trying to establish who was at fault. Obviously, the Houston police department made that clear with the arrest of Mr. Ho. The bottom line is this; We were hurt at the hands of another individual. In America, that means we can sue. We are just trying to get some guidance on who to talk to, what to do, etc. We are not looking for the rantings of a racsist, or the subsequent opinions of individual's view(s) on America, racsism, etc. The Internet has everything. I'm sure they even have a bulliten board for people who would like to go on racially prejudiced tirades and hide behind a handle. This however is a board for people inquiring legal advice...hence, "freeadvice.com." So, ladies and gentlemen, could we please stick to that.
We ARE still looking for legal advice. Thanks.
By the way. We would all be happy to continue the conversation on race, etc, on our message board at
http://shedezy.2ya.com. We're always looking for something to talk about, (kind of bland at the moment,) and we all hate racists, so you'd all be great guests to have.
