i mean, we don't know the kids, we don't know what happened, but if he had a friend backing him and a brawl broke out with 2 guys on that side and someone got killed i think we're talking 2 kids in jail facing adult charges, not 1.
nothing in the articles is like some "friend" who belonged in the tent tried to intervene one or both ways, told one side i said he could be here, told the other side stop, or put away the knife, or took his side the whole time. i think if that's what happened it would be in the papers. it's in mom's slanted social media post. mom isn't there and is trying to act like a thrower shouldn't be at a track meet, or the tent belongs to the school or school district and the team under it has no say who's in the tent. mom is trying to help her boy and trying to spin everything.
in reality mom won't get to spin the whole thing, she'll get asked did her kid's team have its own tent, did she see what he packed that morning, was he being bullied at meets.
to me the whole thing stinks. i had limited interaction with opposing runners, even friends i played select with for several years. maybe get our parents together. maybe spend 5 minutes sitting down shooting the breeze. i'm there for a reason and planning my day around being rested and ready for races. that and for that day that's the enemy. there were no lady friends there, there were no opponents in the tent. we need to be able to change, to put on ointment, sunscreen, whatever, to vent, to discuss strategy. i shouldn't have to take things out of the tent because the other team is there. the tent is like the mobile locker room.
