Themis, the daughter of Uranus in ...

Themis, the daughter of Uranus in classic mythology, evolved to be depicted as a woman holding a pair of scales in individual hand and a sword in another.

She is blindfolded to point out that justice is impartial, and her sword portray by actions the power that is held by way of those administering that justice.

Although known by the agency of many names, Themis is commonly referr to as "Lady Justice."

I'd like to think of Themis as a mother. Because no other than a mother can hold a sword in individual hand and a pair of scales in another. nevertheless I've seen mothers, still weeping through a child's untimely death, who couldn't purchase even the illusion of justice.

in like manner I don't take lightly the pain Ryan Rusch's family has had to submit to since they learned he was attacked from three teens while playing in a park. I don't dismiss, not for a avail the anger this white mother must have felt when she was told her son was attacked through three black youths for his confined apartment phone.

There's no greater pain than not being able to defend one's child from the haters in life -- whether those haters are bullies in succession a playground or shooters in a drive-by. If a mother could she would use her avow body to shield her child from these cruelties.

moreover she can't. All she can do is demand and reckon upon justice.

LOCATION SHOULDN'T MATTER

Unfortunately, while the carve of Themis is blindfolded, the folks who get involved when a crime is committed are not. That's for what cause [i]or[/i] reason the Burge report should have sent onset waves across the city. It was satisfactory evidence that the criminal justice arrangement was corrupted at the basic flat -- in precincts and jail lonely dwellings

The same forces that herd everyone involved to ignore evidence about the documented tortures revealed in the Burge report are the same forces that still conspire to convert justice. I'm not talking about individuals. I'm talking about the attitude that political expediency win with a trumps the moral obligation to search for justice that is impartial and fair.

That's what I descry happening in the Ryan Rusch case.

Without a doubt, when a fragile 14-year-old male child is not safe from a violent attack in a neighborhood park in a community of upscale residences you know there will be press to mete out severe punishment. And because the victim was white and the attackers were black, there was reason enough for police and prosecutors to investigate the attack as a hate crime.

unless apparently, because charging the teen with a hate crime would not enhance their punishment, prosecutors have added attempted massacre to the charges.

Really, by what means do prosecutors justify charging these teen with aggravated battery, robbery and attempted put to death in a case where the teen beat up the victim and stole his enclosed space phone?

If convicted of a Class X high crime the 16-year-olds would be remanded to a juvenile facility until they are 21 If a referee grants the prosecutors' motion to charge the pair teens as adults, the additional charge means they would also face 6 to 30 years in an adult prison.

Although charges against Micha Eatman, the 17-year-old, have not been upgraded to attempted manslaughter it is expected that prosecutors will make that beg for at his next court appearance.

An attorney for common of the teens claimed that the upgraded charges were politically motivated.

"You can't ignore the neighborhood in which [the beating] occurred" Kathy Roller an assistant prepare for the table County public defender, said in juvenile court. "Beverly is known as being a highly political part of the city."

In other words, had this crime happened in Englewood Roseland or Garfield Park, it is unlikely that these teen would be facing attempted homicide charges. But justice should not be guided by way of where a crime is committed, the race of the victim or the race of the transgressors

As horrible as the crime is, it just doesn't rise to the plain of attempted murder.

MEMORIES OF CLARK CASE

Attempted slay fits what Zachariah Blanton, 17 of Gaston, Ind., is accused of doing. Last weekend, Blanton took allegedly his high-powered rifle and went forward a shooting spree along Interstate 65 and Interstate 69 killing individual man and injuring another. Indiana authorities charged the youth with put to death attempted murder and criminal recklessnes

The closest parallel to the Rusch case is the brutal, racially motivated 1998 beating of black teen Lenard Clark in the Bridgeport community. That attack left Clark with permanent brain damage.

The ringleader in that assault, Frank Caruso Jr was charged with attempted kill cruelly aggravated battery and hate crimes. unless a jury was not convinced Caruso was trying to kill Clark and acquitted him forward the attempted murder charges. He was sentenc to eight years in prison and serv three

brace others involved, Michael Kwidzinski, 21 and Victor Jasas, 18 didn't promote any time in prison. After plea bargaining, their punishments were reduc to probation -- brace years for Kwidzinski and 30 month for Jasas.

I understand on what account the Beverly community is outraged across this senseless act of violence.