- Kameron Jacobsen
Your weekday morning blend from Instant Tea:
1. Here we go again. This is unbelievable. A 14-year-old high school freshman in Orange County, N.Y., has taken his own life, reportedly in response to bullying on Facebook over his perceived sexual orientation. Watch video from Fox 5 below. Kameron Jacobsen died Tuesday, according to his obituary in The Times Herald-Record. “We hope as a community both collectively and individually we can find a way to finally put an end to this!” Kameron’s family writes in the obituary. Amen.
2. Dallas police have arrested one of several suspects in a series of “takeover-style” armed robberies, including one early Wednesday at the Villa Club near North Hall Street and McKinney Avenue in Uptown. The pistol-wielding suspects struck shortly after 2 a.m. and demanded that employees empty the safe. They took the employees’ wallets and cell phones and even shot at their victims’ while making their getaway in a Hummer H2. Police believe the same suspects are responsible for similar recent robberies at the Old Monk bar in Knox-Henderson and Humperdink’s in Northeast Dallas.
3. Change.org has launched a petition calling on The Dallas Morning News to allow same-sex wedding announcements. The petition stems from a case in which a gay Dallas couple has filed a discrimination complaint against The DMN for refusing to publish their announcement under Weddings. Citing Texas’ bans on same-sex marriage, The DMN instead places such announcements under Commitments. As of this morning, the petition had accumulated 6,442 signatures since being launched Wednesday. Will the petition be enough to prompt The DMN to change the policy? Almost certainly not, but it can’t hurt. Sign by going here.
These deaths are a reflection of our socity. I’m 54 and my peers were killing themselves 40 years ago due to the same issue’s with our socity. In my time Tulsa had the highest teen suicide rate in the nation. Weither gay or stright.. these teens are not able handle the presure of taking on responsaiblty to please and the fear of not doing so. I really hope the attention brought to these tragic deaths can only bring about a positive result. The eye opeing pressures of what we put on our children to make us or parents happy is costing lives. It may be bullying or our expectations of them and the fear of what failure is in a teenagers eyes.
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This is not why the student committed suicide. He was NOT a victim of bullying, if he was the police would have found evidence and they did not. His parents claim it was an everyday thing, but where is the formal complaints with the district? If they “knew” and did nothing, then who is really to blame?
The parents yes were aware and they did!! go to the district and schools and nothing was done. This is a great tragedy. who are you, Monroe resident, to put blame on the parents? How dare you try to compound their grief!!! The ones to blame are the parents of the tormentors who raised these animals that tormented Kam.!!!! what kind of human being would so this to another ? Why because he’s not cool” like the others or doesn’t fit your perception of how you want someone to be? Yes he was a victom. A victom of cruel insensitive, animalistic idiots.!!
Who are they as parents to put blame on others without any of proof in any way. They should allow themselves to grieve instead of pointing fingers.