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Any man who takes advantage of a drunk and vulnerable girl should be tried for sexual assault. These thugs deserve to face manslaughter charges as well. They should be locked up for a long time.
UPDATE: Reggie's bar has liquor license suspended after death of Madison Brooks >

They'll be back. It's not their first rodeo. They will pay some fines and follow so newly imposed rules but nothing fundamentally will change. >

Normally I'd agree with you (I'm familiar with Reggie's and its history) but this is high profile enough that I don't know if they can recover. >

Their owners need to be dragged into court as well. >

I would be happy with seeing them lose their liquor license here permanently and forcing them to go bankrupt. >

What sane girl will want to go into that rape/murder den now? >

Sadly it’s not the first incident at Reggie’s and still maintains its popularity >

They survived the “Reggin’ at Reggie’s” hand stamps. >

Her poor parents.  I don’t know if I could live knowing my child died in such a way, or anyway actually, but this is horrific. >

Totally agree. They are victims here too. If it were my daughter, my current life would effectively be over. The only thing that would keep me from offing myself is my other kid. >

I'd have to take the rapists with me. >

Why don't we hear about more vengeance from broken parents? I know how I'd spend my free time
edit in case I sound like some r/iamverybadass dbag:
I have no idea what it must feel like to go through what these parents go through. I'm just saying, I'm shocked you don't hear about them losing their shit and getting revenge. I just picture them having all the time in the world and devolving and spiraling. Like where would you go from there? >

I have to imagine because the bloodlust people have in hypotheticals is pretty hard to act on when you have so many other things to concern yourself with after losing a child. >

Well that and if they have another child….  I wouldn’t give a fuck though.  Sometimes there truly is a time to kill. >

yeah, I mentioned that in another comment - if I had the one child and lost them, I'd probably commit suicide. I just can't visualize waking up in that life every day after that
edit: hahaha "a time to kill" - isn't that a steven segal movie? >

A Time to Kill, is indeed a movie but rather it stars Matthew McConaughey. It pretty much deals with the legal case after a man murders the rapists of his 10 year old daughter.
The poster you replied to likely intended the reference. >

Jesus that’s a horrible story >

Not a lawyer but I don't know why these kids aren't getting hit with some kind of homicide or manslaughter charge also. Dropping someone in the middle of the road who is borderline comatose sounds like negligent homicide to me. The whole story is so horrific. >

I know they've said they don't plan to charge the rapists with any other crimes related to her death, but there's a chance they're waiting for one of them to give testimony that implicates the position/condition she was left in. >

Yeah, I’m the furthest thing from an expert of the law, and certainly not in Louisiana’s specifically, but I feel I’ve definitely seen people get felony murder charges for a lot less (in terms of directly causing one’s death). 
Assaulting a girl and then dumping her on the road that drunk, don’t think you could try any harder to indirectly kill someone. >

They may even try to pin kidnapping on them if she was too drunk to consent to anything. And I have to imagine dropping somebody off somewhere is part of that act. >

.319 and the lawyer said she was able to consent? I disagree >

Also the .319 BAC was taken an hour after she stopped drinking. She was even drunker than that when she was with these horrible people. >

Actually not necessarily.  While she was most certainly drunk, your BAC continues to rise for the first hour after your last drink as your bodies digests the alcohol.  (But at .319 she was still definitely hammered earlier) >

Poor kid. What a terrible way to go. Rip. >

I can’t imagine how the parents feel, that’s a helluva heartbreaking phone call to receive >

Then to learn that her last moments alive were a brutal gang rape. 
I don’t know how I could possibly go on after that. 
It’s just too much. >

I know it is terrible to say but I hope with her BAC being that high she wasn’t aware of what was really going on.  I honestly hope she was not conscious for those last terrible hours of her life.  Poor girl. 
How the hell were people as young as 17 at a bar drinking.  How could her friends leave her, how could other people at the bar fail to see how drunk she was and let her leave with four random guys.  So many people let her down. >

How could the rapists parents raise boys who thought that was ok.   
It’s not like she got attacked by wolves when she was out late in the woods—   Her rapists were people just like the people at the bar.  Which parents raised their sons to be  monsters? >

Man raising a boy. This is in the forefront of everything I do parenting. >

As a man raising 2 girls, thank you. >

I don't know where to put this comment, I guess. But here I go. I went to Homecoming with a dude my Sophomore year of HS. I was new to the school as usual (as an Army brat), and didn't know hardly anyone when homecoming rolled around. He was a kid in my Spanish class. Quiet....but just seemed shy to me at first. 
It was until the "date" happened that I got the creepy vibes from him. The way he looked at me was just....off. I don't even remember what he said, but he made comments that made me very uncomfortable. I was so relieved when the night was over. I avoided him after that. 
This kid was Nicholas Holbert. He went on to murder a young female soldier in Fayetteville NC a few years later.
Edit to add.... I would also go on to become friends with Chris Watts for the next two years at that school. Ugh. >

Did they catch the driver who hit her or was it a hit and run? >

It wasn’t a hit-and-run. They knew the driver right away. He wasn’t intoxicated and he was driving a rideshare. That strip of road that he was driving on is so dark and has zero street lights. It is sad to say, but it doesn’t surprise me that he didn’t see her until it was too late. >

It wasn't clear in the article but I wonder if they had dumped her in the middle of the road, would make sense someone would have a hard time seeing someone like that >

The article said they weren’t planning on charging them with her death, so it’s safe to guess they didn’t leave her in the road >

Or they can't prove it in any way, and they didn't provide any testimony (yet) to offer evidence against themselves. >

She left the bar in a car with 4 guys.  2 in front and 2 in the back.
The driver of the car stated that one of the 2 guys in back started having sex with her and he told them to stop, then after the rape finished (its not clear if one or both guys in the back had sex with her) they followed the girls directions to her home but she couldnt find it so they dropped her off as close as they could.
Thats the only testimony released so far from the driver of the rape car, not the uber that hit her.
Edit: Added a bit of context. >

Vile human beings. She couldn’t find her home so they just left her? >

I'm guessing she was unconscious because she had alcohol poisoning. They probably didn't want her to die in their car, so they dumped her in the road. I believe there is more malice to this story than is being let on. >

Yeah just raped someone but still thinking about doing the right thing. >

That Reggie’s place needs to be immediately shut down, too.  Letting anyone get to a 0.319 BAC, let alone a 19 year old… >

It's known as the freshman bar where they can go to get fucked up. As long as you are 18 you can get in. It is the shittiest bar in Tigerland and always has been. It was actually shut down a few years ago because of an underage drinking sting.
Tigerland is just an awful place in general. Frequent murders and shootings. Kidnappings are not uncommon and LSU students just can't stay away from it. Good things don't happen in Tigerland >

It really is a blight on the community and I used to go there all the time. Dumb and young. I have seen some of the worst fights I have ever seen in my life at Reggie’s and I grew up in New Orleans going out. I watched a dude get straight stabbed in the parking lot as a freshman. >

I knew a guy who tried to calm a fight there. He ended having literally all of his teeth kicked out and his skull and jaw fractured. Had to have loads of reconstructive surgery. >

Yeah, man unfortunately it’s pretty common place. I think many ppl would be surprised if they walked by there at 12:30/1am. Most parents would be Fucking appalled lol. It’s dystopian and disturbing now that I have grown up and looked back. >

I'm just glad I was too nerdy to even consider it an option. I brewed my own until I was 21 and then spent my nights at the cove until I skipped town.
If the choice is between chugging natty in rapemurder alley or quietly sipping a stout with my fellow pirates, well... The choice always seemed obvious. >

This is the problem with zero tolerance drinking laws and having the highest drinking age in the world.
Only a fool thinks that makes the kids go "oh ok I guess I won't drink til I'm 21 now."  
What it actually does it drive it underground and to the seediest parts of town where you are more likely to encounter serious problems if you drink too much. >

Except this place ain't really underground, minutes away from campus and well known for serving minors...... It's almost as if the government agency in charge of regulating the liquor license is failing. >

Louisiana had to be dragged kicking and screaming into raising their drinking age to 21. They were denied Federal highway funds for years. Makes sense that their enforcement would be lax >

I’m from a town with a notorious party school. There are so many bars down town, like SO many. I was a bartender from ~2004-2010. We had many crazy nights, especially after football games. What we didn’t have was tons of underage drinking in those bars. It is my best guess that prevention was due to local business codes and a very active police force. Police would often come in plainclothes with an underage guest and try to coerce you into serving the person with the fake ID or no ID. It happened to me more than once and the cop was always really pushy like “C’mon, just serve my ‘GF’ a drink, I swear she’s over 21”, shit like that. We would always complain that this tactic felt a little too much like entrapment. Another thing that kept us from serving underage was the fact that you could go to jail for serving someone alcohol who later went on to get a DUI, in a wreck, cause a crash, etc. I was always wary of over-serving or accepting a fake ID because the repercussions would be massive. >

The drinking culture at big state schools is out of control.  It’s a shit show every weekend.  Frats are the worst. >

The school I’m talking about is in the SEC. The drinking culture is part of the reason I moved away in 2011. >

alabama? i’m from tuscalooosa and you are exactly on the mark, but it’s sad it applies to pretty much every southern school. >

There is so much wrong with everything that happened in this story. Tragic for her and her family. 
Donating her heart and kidneys after her death is the only beautiful thing that came from this. Bless her and her family for arranging that. >

What a sad story. Seems the bar has a troubled history with underage drinking and more,  which happens in college towns. But 17?  I'd imagine this incident finally closes their doors.

Madison Brooks, a 19-year-old sophomore at LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication from Madisonville, had been drinking at Reggie’s, a Tigerland bar, where she met the 17-year-old, and left with him and the three other suspects, deputies said. >

I believe Reggie's has been operating since before I started LSU in the mid 2000s. As far back as when I was there, that entire area (there's like 6 bars over there, some apartments and a bomb burger joint that used to sell fake bake) has been rough.
Living in some apartments in that area, I saw a dude get stabbed and another shot while I was on my porch. It's always been rough. 
I guess all that is to say, that if all the shenanigans that have occurred over the past 2 decades hasn't been enough to close down Reggie's, I unfortunately don't believe this will. Cops there would much rather park at the red light at Nicholson and tigerland and give kids an inspection sticker ticket in the morning (after picking up their vehicles) than root out anything that is happening in that area. >


Cops there would much rather park at the red light at Nicholson and tigerland and give kids an inspection sticker ticket in the morning

Classic Louisiana cops. Surprised they didn’t try to harass the kids to find other reasons either. >

.31 BAC is straight up coma level drunk, like surgical sedation type drunk. These people raped a person who had the potential to go into a coma and die. Absolutely unforgivable >


Absolutely unforgivable

Agreed.
Also knowing that she was drunk they abandoned her on the side of a road, leading to her likely stepping in front of traffic  - too drunk to be fully aware of her surroundings.
In my view they should also be charged w/involuntary manslaughter (I think it is) as their actions led to her death. >

"This was not a crime."
My brother in Christ, it is a crime to rape a woman while she is unconscious in the back seat of a car. >

How the fuck did a real life lawyer say this >

He said it about his client...who sat in the front seat while she was being raped in the back seat, not the guy who did the rape itself.
Apparently saying he was uncomfortable with the rape absolves him /s >

How do you sit in the front of a car while a rape is happening in the back of the same car, and then claim your innocent >

Step 1: be a coward >

Step 2: make deplorable friends >

What's weird is the front seat dudes were upper 20s and the back seat rapists were teens.
How are you 28 with an 18 year old friend? Smash bros tournament? >

When you can’t make friends your own age, only the teenage rapists will hang out. >

Was a dude like this in my hood who just kept hanging out with year after year of high school kids in his 20s
Was known as Peter Pan >

“Alright alright alright…that’s what I love about high school…I keep gettin older and they stay the same age”
He played the part of a genuine creep soo damn well >

Disturbing story, my God. She was used and discarded like a piece of trash. Hopefully, changes come from this. >

What a complicated, horrible story. The bar needs to be investigated because why were there so many minors in there? I know there are fake id's but that's still a lot of minors getting drunk. They need a better checking system. 
And all the guys in the car deserve whatever punishment they receive for allowing the rape to happen and then leaving her god knows where when she was completely out of it. 
And the friends who left her are assholes too! There are just nothing but garbage people in every step of this situation.
Edit: I retract the statement about her friends. People can and do lose track of each other when alcohol and crowds are involved. 
But fuck every other asshole who contributed to this woman's rape and death. >

That bar and others in the area have been shut down multiple times for underage drinking and other things. A quick internet search of Reggie's Baton Rouge will tell you all you need to know. >

From their yelp page from 7 months ago:

Don't waste your time going because it's only for LSU students and they pretty much let in kids under 21 plus you'll see a lot of guys with shorts above their knees lol >

What’s wrong with shorts above the knee? >

I actually like the newer (old) trend coming back of shorter shorts on men. I think it’s really flattering. >

Ranger panties. >

Those CAN be flattering, but they’re not for everybody. And I’d assume mostly for running >

I hope they charge the bar that served her to a .319 BAC. That’s criminal in and of itself. >

It's been closed and investigated once before for the same thing, and they were allowed to reopen . They've just been closed for another investigation after this incident >

The bar will probably close for good after this. They committed a felony that resulted in death. Someone from the bar is gonna be up for felony murder charges along with the rapists >

What the fuck did I just read… How utterly depressing.
That poor woman. >

The bar she was drinking at had their liquor license revoked but I hope they get sued for criminal negligence because their actions had a direct result on her death. >

Reggie’s and the entire Tigerland area has been serving underaged kids for decades. I wonder if this will actually make something stick. Sadly the owner also owns other bars, so it won’t make a huge difference. >

The owner could end up facing a ton of charges which hopefully will result in him losing thr bars. >

People all over the world drink at 18. These fucking punks are rapist and found an opportunity. If they had all been 21 the exact same thing would likely have happened. These boys are pieces of shit. >

While I agree with the age part, there’s a couple things, from my European POV:


When the whole culture has normalized and legal drinking at 18, kids are less likely to have their first stupid experience at 19, it’s more likely at 17-18 at most where you’d do THIS stupid drinking hopefully. By 19 you’ve been drinking socially for a while, it’s a lot harder to accidentally get comatose-drunk


All European bars I’ve been to have been a million times stricter than Louisiana ones I’ve been to about who they serve. I’ve seen 40+ year olds get cut off when they were just swaying not bothering anyone but too drunk for bartender’s liking.


Also of course these boys are pieces of shit beyond measure I def agree with you >

Tragedy but not a crime? No, a tragedy is when a tornado takes out your house, rape is a crime. >

So they gang raped her and she was later hit by a car and killed . As the father of a teen daughter I hope for nothing but the absolute worst for these monstrosities. If she had been my daughter I know how this would end. >

So the victim was 19 and had a BAC of .319. 3 of the 4 rapists were also under 21 and inebriated. The drinking took place at a local bar.
Perhaps there should be a serious investigation into why the bar is serving so many underage people, and how they let a girl get to that high of a BAC without cutting her off. I saw the LSU statement about having a discussion with the local bars because the attackers were drunk underage. I'm not victim shaming, but if she had not been allowed to drink, especially that much, this probably wouldn't be a news story. That bar has criminal and civil liability in this as well. >

It’s a nationwide issue on how normalized it is to binge drink. Drinking culture places victims and perpetrators together in an uncontrolled environment. And for each individual story, people just look at the perpetrators of a specific crime while ignoring the larger problem at hand. >

Precisely. I have worked for many years with college students and have to constantly address this situation. I'm no saint, I did my share of drinking and stupidity at a younger age. I got lucky that nothing incredibly bad resulted. I try to help them learn not to repeat my mistakes and not to end up in a far worse situation. At least there was no social media when I was in college. >

According to this article:, NAACP is working with prominent Baton Rouge attorneys who are representing two suspects, claiming there is video evidence refuting any allegations that Brooks was raped.
Brooks' blood-alcohol level was .319% at the time which is nearly four times the legal driving limit, according to the arrest documents.
And the attorney representing them is going to use a rape video uploaded to the cloud as existence she consented.  Trash. >

I feel bad for her parents watching that video. >

"This was tragedy, but not a crime," Long said. WTF is he talking about? She was R A P E D. >

This is what defense lawyers do, deflect and blame the victim. 
Poor girl was too drunk to give her address and these scumbags attack her. If she were my child, I’d want their blood on my hands. >

Remember people, if you go out drinking with friends STICK TOGETHER. >


LSU President William Tate described it partly as a result of local businesses being able to serve alcohol to minors without repercussions — a stance some criticized as distracting from the bigger issue of sexual violence.

Because that's exactly what it is.
Man, America's so fucked. Most people here are screeching about the bar serving an adult alcohol — legal in pretty much the rest of the world — or alternatively on the driver for hitting her, while accepting that getting gang raped when drunk is just a totally normal occurrence. Are you people out of your mind?! >

An alarming number of people shamelessly proclaim that with enough alcohol, anyone could become a rapist—that the alcohol is the problem and it’s just unleashing violent urges that everyone shares. They’re telling on themselves. >

These guys need to go down for her death too.  They knew she was incapacitated and in danger, took advantage of her, and then just ditched her knowing this could happen.  
Manslaughter or something.  All of them.  F that "I didn't want to do it" bs either.  I was able to stop a drunk rape in high school when outnumbered very easily by making a stink and shaming. >

I would expect some pretty stiff sentencing here when it's all said and done as a total armchair reddit commentor. >

As an American - I can look at the pictures of the victim and the perp and know this is going to be a LONG sentence. >

What's the drinking age there? They serve teenagers?? >

Dives and older college campuses will serve you regardless >

Oh I’m sure all those shitheads were buying her drinks. And it is a crime not just a “tragedy”, assholes. >

They raped her and kicked her out in a random subdivision. WTF?!!!!! Please do not let these men back into our society. >

Jesus christ... I didn't realise she was raped... Then hit and killed by a car, about an hour later. That poor kid.
The father of three girls... One who's 19. I can't even begin to imagine my state of mind after getting this news. Thoughts with the family. RIP. >

I'm positive that I would. However, there's already a long list of reasons I don't/won't have kids, so the FBI agent reading this can relax >

Yeah same, vasectomy taken care of in early December so I'm fully child-free >

I go to this school, this whole thing has really sent an icy, sick chill across campus in a way I haven't seen before.
Being a big SEC party school and all, we have our fair share of shameful shit that happens on and off campus, but this is way beyond the pale.  The reason it happened is because all the shitty college bars in the area are packed into one area of town, which also happens to be an area that was rough as fuck even before they all set up shop there, it's called Tigerland.  Anything goes there, it's mind-boggling.  Underage drinking is the least of the shit I've heard about.  Plus, because we're a major football school, we have more than our fair share of creepy meatheads who have no business stinking up higher education for everyone else and only want to rep a big team and get wasted.  The local cops are incompetent and spend most of their time chasing unarmed black people, though, so it goes on unrestricted.
I hope her family gets to see some justice handed down to the perpetrators and that the school works with the local government to sort shit out with regards to Tigerland.  College towns can have party districts, but they should never get this bad. >

“Carver said he felt uncomfortable with the sex happening in his back seats and "hated it” and told them to “stop it”.
Rape.   The RAPE happening in his back seats. >


"This was tragedy, but not a crime," Long said. "When all the evidence is known, everyone will see this was not a crime," Long said.

I get that you're a defense attorney and you have to say what you have to, but also: Fuck you. >

Females are in a warzone from birth. Pedophiles / rapists, domestic violence, misogynist / incel attacks. The list goes on. Literally a fucking war zone. It's got to stop. >

Ladies, might be up to us, Amazon style. >

Not sure how the lawyer will twist it but for me it’s a crime.  Not sure who was the driver the 18 or 28 year old  but, the driver could have driven her to a hospital or a police station, especially if she was too intoxicated to say where she lived.
He may not have been able to control his “friends” but he controlled his car.  If he wasn’t driving he could have gotten out.  
So the fact he was uncomfortable but had just as much opportunity to help her or leave doesn’t absolve him from the crime.
While the victim didn’t have the capacity to say no, he did.  He  allowed the SA to happen and didn’t stop it.
The choice to pull over and then to abandon her were factors.  Who ever the driver was also could have kicked his other rapist friend out instead or driven them to the police station.  
Even after the rape they could have dropped her off someplace safe.
All 4 are complicit to me anyways. They all had choices, they all had their wits about them, she did not. >

Friends, never lose track of each other when out partying.  This is why. You gotta protect each other. >

I would go full law abiding citizen on them if that was my daugther. >

Parents need to raise their kids with more respect these boys especially the grown man have no excuse for their behavior I hope they all are given hefty jail sentences to send a message to all men who choose to violate and disrespect women in any way! They are responsible for her death no matter how you swing it they knew she was too drunk to take care of herself and because they raped her they panicked and thought the best thing to do was leave her on the side of the road shame on you animals how do you look at yourselves in the mirror! >

How does a bar called Reggie’s survive this story involving 4/5ths of victim and perps being under age?  What a horrible story. >

It is well known in Baton Rouge that Reggies and Freds, the bar next door, serve underaged women soooo bribes. >

So the server at the bar didn't notice anything?  I think in some states a bartender could be liable for serving too much alcohol.
Edit for spelling. >

They can, but if I'm being honest, in some bars it can be so chaotic and understaffed it's hard to even see someone's face let alone guage how drunk they are (until they can't speak or walk right). Sometimes someone orders a drink at the rail and hands it to someone else. 
That being said, the establishment should get hit if they don't have systems in place to make this easier, and shoulabsolutely get hit for failure to ID. Basically just saying responsibility should be heavier on the establishment than an individual server or bartender >

I’m shocked that this horrific story isn’t getting more media coverage.  Seems like only one of the perps is capable of having any guilt, which is even more disgusting.  Justice needs to be swift and harsh on these young men. >

Note: the president’s message is about alcohol reform not anything about sexual assault. >

A local LSU bar served her waaay too much alcohol. She then asked these guys, whom she'd been drinking with, to drive her home. She couldn't communicate her address either way due to the level of alcohol, they raped her, left her in a subdivision, where she was eventually hit and killed. 😳💔 Fuck. I'm so sad for her and her family. I graduated from LSU, and I hope the family sues the bar. >


Madison Brooks, a 19-year-old sophomore at LSU's Manship School of Mass Communication from Madisonville, had been drinking at Reggie’s, a Tigerland bar ...
...
Deputies said Brooks had a blood-alcohol level of .319, nearly four times the legal limit to drive and enough to give someone alcohol poisoning and render them unconscious.

That bar is culpable for egregiously overserving and for serving a minor.  They're going to get annihilated in civil court, and, frankly, they should be held accountable criminally. >

My exact thought. I would also like to see this crazy binge drinking culture gone for such inexperienced young adults. Drinking to get tipsy can be fun, drinking to get black out drunk is very rarely fun. Yet it is still the golden standard for fun for most college kids. >

No one was looking out for this girl. How tragic. Women are so vulnerable in this world. If you see a woman in a vulnerable state, look after her until she’s safe. This hurts. >

Felony murder.  Life in prison for the minor, and death penalty for the other 3. >

Guys guys guys fathers fathers fathers. Sit your daughters down tell them that no matter what is going on they can call you and you will go and get them always, no dad talks no anger just get them home safely. I traveled for a long time and my brother in law filled in when I wasn’t around. Even now at 28 my daughter tells me where she is going and tells me when she is leaving safely and when she is home. Even drunk on her ass, she won’t drive and I’ll come get her she KNOWS that. Make sure your daughter knows too. >

This was my cousin’s best friend. It’s such a horrible, horrible story. 😞 The lawyer of those 2 kids is lying through his teeth. >

Jeez. Want to say I'm so sorry but know how hollow that can resonate. 
We know about the lawyer. We know. Please take care and check on each other often. There will be people you know that don't know what to do or how to act. Work though this at your pace and check on each other. >

Hope the scum never see the light of day again.
What a sad story. >

Won’t name the 17 year old because he is a juvenile (until they try him as an adult).
And he was also in the bar…really?!?
Fry you MFers! >

Why would two 28 year olds want to hang out with a bunch of teenagers? Obviously that's not the most heinous part of this story but it caught my eye. Bunch of immoral creeps. >

Every article I'm seeing only lists one 28 year old. >

One paragraph starts “Carver and Lee, 28, …” I think it’s only referring to Lee in this sentence, because they already said Carver was 18. They also already said Lee was 28 earlier so it’s just pointlessly confusing. >

its being reported elsewhere that Lee (28) is the uncle of Washington (18), the kid in the back seat >

I hope they enjoy all the creature comforts and extracurricular activities waiting for them in Angola Penitentiary... >

That's awful.  Sounds like the plot of a Law & Order SVU episode or something. >

I didn’t even have to look. >


"This was tragedy, but not a crime,"

Holy crap there are so many things wrong here I cannot name them. Lets start where multiple teens between 17 and 19 are getting smashed drunk at a bar. Lets start with revoking the bars license. (Edit: I see it has been suspended.)  Then lets proceed to disbar the lawyer that suggests rape is not a crime but a "tragedy". After that I have got to stop. It makes me too angry.
Everyone involved from the bartender and owner to the people in the car to the lawyer need to be thrown into a prison so they can experience some "tragedy" first hand. >

This narrative needs to be about preventing rape, not just alcohol for minors. What are they doing about rape, that is what needs to be addressed. >

.319 BAC is a ridiculous amount of alcohol. DrunkCalc.com says you have to have 11 shots in 1 hour to achieve this level of drunk if you are an estimated female of her size. 
.4 is when you go into a coma/alcohol poisoning and you die w/o stomach pumping.
I'm a strong experienced male drinker that is bigger than her, but 11 in an hour is ridiculous even for me. The bartender really should've cut her off.
Such a sad case. >

Bartender wasn't serving her. Thats why its so dangerous that LA allows 18-20 year olds into bars. Their friends get them drinks and they'd be trying to avoid scrutiny. Assuming the bar was understaffed and full of rowdy college kids- I put this more on the state for having such a ridiculous law and on the establishment for not having a good way of tracking this and avoiding serving minors. >

"Carver said he felt uncomfortable with the sex happening in his back seats and "hated it.""
Oh, look here, we got a regular hero on the scene.
/S
Too little too late, fuck face. If only there was ANYTHING you could do to stop it, report it, or save this girl's life. 
Absolute fucking coward. >

F these animals with a piano sideways. They deserve the worst sentence possible. >

The bar owners should be arrested.
Not fined, Not license revoked.
Arrested. >

As a former bouncer in Nashville, the number of women who leave their drunk friends alone at a bar is ridiculous. I can't count the number of shady, and dangerous things I've seen. Keep your incapacitated friends close people. >

Oh Lord have mercy, what an awful terrible way to go. 
The terror, the pain, and then… just awful. >

Ugh, what the heck, how could this even happen!? I thought the legal drinking age was 21 everywhere in America for bars, 18, 19, 17, 20 year old kids are just freely going to established bars in public to get served drinks?
Something about this just angers me and makes me feel like there's an entire system of messed up **** happening here. I feel less comfortable sending a daughter off to college now.
College girls should be very wary ever being left alone with only men around whilst consuming any alcohol, regardless how much social pressure they feel they shouldn't drink a lot if its only men in their environment, even guys they know can seemingly turn into predators, but ESPECIALLY strangers... I've heard too many stories of disgusting pigs posing as human beings having the audacity to put drugs inside the alcohol that can make people pass out or fall asleep easier. Ugh, my stomach turned just thinking about it, it hurts my mind to imagine how human beings that disgusting can even walk around in public.
This story just seriously upsets me for some reason, I thought I was desensitized to news with all the mass shootings but this makes me feel so much pain & anger, all the injustice and evil that happened when there were lots of people at that bar probably just looking the other way or by standing whilst it all happened. They could've never known anything this monstrous would occur and some might even get depressed about this night their entire lives. >

This is something where the book should be thrown at these punks. Does Reddit still believe in light sentences because tough on crime doesn’t work? >

I haven’t been raped but I’ve been once dumped on the side of the road by a cab driver because I threw up in his car because I was too intoxicated. It was in December and it was -15 outside. I can’t tell you that I’ve been lucky adrenaline kicked in and that I stopped a car with a young couple that took me back home for the only $20 bill I was lucky to have in my pocket. My cellphone was dead so I wouldn’t have been able to call anyone and it was on a boulevard at 3am in a commercial area. I’ve never took cabs since then only Ubers. I knew I could have died that night. This is totally disgusting and these guys should be charge for negligence. >


"This was tragedy, but not a crime," Long said.

If concrete evidence comes out that this WAS a rape, no one will let this shitty lawyer forget what he said. >

Well their lawyer is a grade A garbage person
“Joe Long, defense attorney for Carver, provided a statement late Monday night. He had turned his client into deputies earlier that day.
"This was tragedy, but not a crime," Long said. "When all the evidence is known, everyone will see this was not a crime," Long said.”
What part of raping a woman who is so drunk she can’t tell you where she lives and dumping her in the street isn’t a crime? What sucks if she hadn’t died this story wouldn’t even had made the headlines. >

Wow, a young person raped and then dropped on the side of the road to then been hit by a car and die. What a shit show >

Gosh and she was so beautiful. What a terrible, terrible thing. >

To bad our corporate state loves rapists. 50% of those incarcerated are in cages for non-violent offenses.
But 60% of convicted sex offenders roam the public free, on parole and probation.
:) United States of Assailants >

man those boys look like some POS garbage.... fucken trash human beings... >

Poor girl. May she RIP >

Bro there are so many victims in this story, the parents who lost their child, the kid who died after being raped, and the driver who hit her. Man this story just sucks in so many ways >

The amount of comments focusing on the bar owner and not the four fucking animals that raped her is insane. 
Yes, the bar owner was irresponsible, but Jesus Christ. >

Jesus... Stories like that are just.... >

...occurring far too often.
Young men are not being raised. They are not being taught right from wrong. They are attacking women. Raping and murdering them.
Four men were a part of this. Not one of them sincerely tried to stop it. These college towns do absolutely nothing to protect their students. Predators congregate at these bar strips specifically to target women.
I hope her friends never have another sleepless night after leaving her like that. I hope the bartenders and bouncers have this follow them around for life, and I hope that bar shuts down for good. >

It’s definitely not a new phenomenon. Men have been treating women like trash since the dawn of time. >

Where the hell were her friends?!! Did they just leave her?! >

Yeah sounds like it. Waited until she was coma-level drunk (not being able to even get home) and then probably fucked off to another bar when she couldn’t keep up. >

Incredibly sad. Be careful. >

Four people have been arrested in the rape of an LSU student who was left afterwards in a neighborhood near where she was fatally struck by a car about an hour later, authorities said. >

What a doozy of a headline >

how the hell are there legal degrees of r@pe?? like some r@pe is less bad than some others?? >

Bars in Tigerland are notorious for underage drinking. It’s been that way for decades. >

Poor girl. Poor parents. >

It’s terrible that school won’t do anything to address this kind of danger to their women students >

I hope they get life in prison >

All three adults in the car should be charged with first degree gang rape and murder. They knew what was happening. She could have died of exposure after they dumped her. >

Whatever punishment, if any, the savage bastards who attacked this young girl get won’t be nearly enough. >

Why not manslaughter too? They set in motion her getting hit by that car by letting her off on the side of a road 4 times over the limit. >

I hope the people who did this, rot in a jail…how much of a parasite and a PoS do you have to be, to do that. >

As someone who likes drinking and did when i was of age in college (not to this extent)…I really feel that “party schools” are a blight on society. >

That’s enough Reddit for now