Another case for the complete abolishing of football...

I saw this headline three or four times today and I don't even want to have clicked it.

Dateline:  Dietrich, ID  October 23, 2015.  Source:  Today's Washington Post.

An African-American player holds out his hands, thinking he is about to get hugged.

Instead, three Caucasian teammates raped him with a coat hanger.  At least one held him, others performed the act.

Did I mention the player was mentally disabled?

The player is an adult, so is at least one of the attackers.  The accused now face life in prison under state law, while the school district, the families of the accused, and at least 11 employees face an eight-figure Federal lawsuit.

This was not a one-time situation, but MONTHS of allowed abuse that finally ended with the vicious attack.

The accused ringleader of the attack is claimed to be a harassive figure in such a heavy posture that he was basically moved from Texas to Idaho to allow him to actually graduate high school.

Talking about the ringleader, the attacked player's family basically writes a standard charge against the sport of football in high schools across this nation:

“Mr. Howard is a large and aggressive male who had been sent to live with his relatives in Idaho due to his inability to keep out of trouble in Texas,” the lawsuit says. “Mr. Howard is a relative of prominent individuals in the community and, at least in part due to his athletic ability and community connections, the Defendants ignored or were deliberately indifferent to the behavior of Mr. Howard which included aggression, taunting and bullying of The Plaintiff and other students in the District. With deliberate indifference, the Defendants did nothing to curb the vicious acts of Mr. Howard who brought with him from Texas a culture of racial hatred towards the Plaintiff.”

That, save the part of about basically being expelled from Texas (where he now again resides) to get him out of trouble, is football in this nation, people.

Other students at the school were alleged to have stripped the victim naked and taken pictures of him on other occasions.

What the fuck, Idaho?  You want somebody to come up there and burn that fucking school to the goddamned ground???  Is that what it's going to take to wake some of you up?  $10 million basically comes out of your insurance -- at which point you basically drive the entire African-American population of your school district out!!!