Tea and Vitriol

It has been nearly two years since Steve Amenhauser was doused with flammable liquid by two teenage feral urban humanoids. With second and third degree burns over 70% of his body, from which he succumbed four days later. It has taken two years to bring his murderers to trial. And it has taken two years for the local news media to comment on it, albeit it ever so briefly. In an insultingly brief statement, News 10 NBC announced that Monroe County Family Court Judge Stacy Romeo could announce her verdict regarding Adriel Riley today. This was a bench trial, as the defendant's request, and not a jury trial Adriel Riley, who was 14 at the time he and his buddy, Zayvion Perry, set Steve Amenhauser ablaze, was charged with murder, arson and criminal possession of a weapon.  If Judge Romeo finds him guilty, he could spend up to 25 years behind bars. Or maybe not, since the latest fad in "justice" doesn't permit people to serve their full sentences, regardless of an extensive

  February 22, 2023, the non-jury trial of one of the two teenage feral urban humanoids accused of dousing Steve Amenhauser with lighter fluid and igniting him one year ago, resulting in his death, was concluded. The court is expected to deliver a verdict from the bench on Wednesday, March 1. Judge Romeo presided over the trial in State Supreme Court's youth part. The other teenage monster already pled guilty to manslaughter and was therefore not a part of this trial. What is maddening is the continued media silence regarding both the crime and this trial, as well as that of Rochester's politicians and the denizens of the mayor's office and City Hall. Clearly, they would like to see the subject of an older White man being set ablaze by two Black kids and dying with second and third degree burns over 70% of his body dismissed from public consciousness. They simply do not care enough to even express a minimum of concern because it does not meet with their liberal progressive