What Earth do you live on, dude? 3 teenagers get caught burgling a house at 2:00 on a Friday afternoon, the guy living there stabs one of them to death, but - knowing nothing more than that there's been acts of "thuggery" in the area - you decide the cops are acting well beyond reason and should let him go, declaring that "no jury in America would convict?

How about start by taking a look at this thug who apparently deserved to die. Here he is, the monster.

Secondly, the "acts of thuggery" in the neighbourhood - which no one knows whether or not were connected to these 3 teenagers - include throwing eggs at a house, broken window(s), burning bushes and another case of burglary. Wow. I can see why that would automatically make police think the place was a cesspool of violent criminal activity.

And third, there can be quite different responses in different countries, and different cities and regions and neighbourhoods within any one country, as to what an appropriate level of response is to a crime on your property. If a kid tries to burgle a place, some people and some communities aren't 100% convinced that shooting them dead, or stabbing them to death, is automatically the right thing to have done. A lot DEPENDS on the circumstances, of which you, basically, have none.

In this case, we have NO idea whether or how or where he stabbed him, whether there were previously bad relations between these people, whether the homeowner was a fine upstanding person or maybe he was head of a drug-gang who got in a fight with the kids running drugs for him. We don't know.

But I'm real pleased to see you've got it all sorted out. "No jury in America would convict under such circumstances." Yeah, well, God forbid that any jury in America have a lummox on it who could read one frigging article in the DAILY MAIL - only one of the most Right-Wing rags on Earth - and decide who's guilty or not.

Enjoy.