unitron wrote:
From that re-newsit article:
"Kendrick made a choice to retrieve his shoe from a mat that he could not easily unroll or tip over to retrieve...it's was vertical and placed behind 20 or so other mats and against a wall."
I thought I understood the situation to have been that the mats were rolled up but lying on the floor and he stored a pair of shoes in the open end of one of them, and then returned later to discover that the mats had been turned up on end in the meantime.
How would he know which of the 20 contained his shoes?
I've never been one of the
"he was black, therefore he must have been murdered by one or more whites"
crowd, but I did think early on
"He's a teenage boy at a school where there are other teenage boys, perhaps one of them grabbed his shoes and threw them on top of the upended mats as the kind of teasing/hazing that teenage boys tend to find amusing (without necessarily color being a part of minimal thought process involved) and one or both fell into the hollow core of one, and Kendrick scrambled to retrieve it/them while everyone else hurried off to their next class, not knowing the fate which would befall Kendrick, and they are now too scared to say anything."
Does anybody happen to remember how they chanced to be looking inside the mats for him?
When the mats were horizontal, Kendrick probably put his shoes inside the mat at the top of the pile and it would then make sense that when the mats were righted and placed against the wall, the one he placed them in would be closest to, or against the wall.
They were not looking for him. Kids were always sitting on top of the mats, which were right next to a set of bleachers. They would climb up the bleachers and then onto the mats. This is what a couple of girls were doing during a class - when they got onto the mats, they saw Kendrick's socked feet inside one of them. See the witnesses accounts starting on the second page of this report:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/181050020/Low ... Report-pdf
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