Belizean student at UCLA facing attempted murder charges
Belizean student at UCLA facing attempted murder charges
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Thursday, 15 October 2009 12:29
Damon ThompsonFormer SJC High School and Sixth Form graduate Damon Thompson, who was studying at University of California in Los Angeles was arraigned at an Airport Courthouse in Westchester California on Tuesday afternoon for a single charge of attempted premeditated murder of his classmate. The allegation against 20-year-old Damon Thompson is that on Thursday October 9, he attacked a 20-year-old female classmate Katherine Rosen. It happened in an organic chemistry class in the William Young Hall at the university sometime around midday on Thursday when Thompson allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed Rosen five times and slashed her throat.
Thompson, an A -student with consistent excellent academic performance is an only child of Judith Brook a legal clerk with the Legal Advice and Services Centre in Belize City. While the US media has painted a negative picture of Thompson,
sources close to him and his family indicated that prior to this incident he had made countless complaints against classmates and this specific lab partner but with no results. Contrary to US media reports, Thompson did know Rosen who was his lab partner and who has been very offensive to him on previous occasions and even the day in question. Now UCLA in an attempt to shift blame away from itself has sought to discredit the mental stability of Thompson by using his many complaints by e-mail as an indication of instability.
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They do the exact same thing with workplace mobbing, they use the complaints to show that the person was mentally unwell, and try to cover up the facts often that there was mobbing happening in the enviornment.
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Here is another news article about the same story.
http://www.amandala.com.bz/index.php?id=9159
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This is ridiculous. I know the girl who was stabbed, and she’s sweet as a fly and was never offensive. In any case, victim blaming is absolutely pathetic. No one deserves to have their throats slashed.
UCLA is a very accepting campus, and I highly doubt that this guy ever faced so many offensive remarks that it led him to want to commit murder. He even accused his professor of being offensive to him. He clearly has some mental issues that need to be worked out.
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September 11th, 2010 at 4:11 pm
I am deeply sorry for Ms. Rosen, but that does not negate the fact that Damon Thompson made several complaints about harassment. She may have been very sweet to others, but clearly he did not see things that way. No one is victim blaming, but if we ignore that harassment might be a key contributing factor to some of these incidents of violence, then they will continue.
No one deserves to have their throats slashed, but no one deserves to be mobbed and bullied day in and out, that is a form of psychological violence, and that is capable of creating the end result that was demonstrated. If you fail to understand this, then you are just enabling this to happen again in the future.
I am glad UCLA has been an accepting place for you, but clearly it was not for him, what you think hardly matters, because this is about what was experienced by another person, how you interpret it hardly helps if he was indeed a target of mobbing on a daily basis.
Yes he did accuse the professor, and in other mobbing cases those in authority taking part are quite common and very regular, that is often why it is hard to get help or be believed, until the target has no where else to turn to.
I don’t think one can say he had mental issues, if he was indeed targeted this way, then he had mobbing issues which should have been addressed and not ignored, ignoring them, blaming him, is most likely what lead to this end result, and until society is capable of recognizing this, and taking some form of ownership then the same will continue to happen. Eg. The recent shootings at the Kraft building.
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