Remember when teachers and coaches were mentors? People you could look up to?
- A man who said he was a football coach at Fenger Academy High School came over to student Darion Jones’ house Saturday morning to ask if the boy knew anything about a player getting robbed of his black Nike flip-flops.
When Darion said no, the coach had a warning:
“I guess you’ll know something when the next 50 people arrive,” he said.
Soon, two or three carloads of kids pulled up — many dressed in Fenger gym clothes and including some the boy recognized as football players — attacked him, damaging his teeth, a prosthetic eye covering and sending him to the emergency room.
Supposedly, one of more of the coaches drove the team over to the suspect's house and then let everyone take care of business, so we guess this is "mentoring" after a fashion. After all, this is the high school that Darrion Albert attended prior to being beaten to death with a piece of lumber.
Maybe it was some sort of "team building" exercise?
Maybe it was some sort of "team building" exercise?