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Horrible and hope they all get convicted
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 >

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. >

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. >

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. >

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

That's what I'm unclear about too. It seems like you need a whole another article to figure out how she died and what's going on with that part? >

So the only person in this story who willingly did a single decent thing is the poor soul who has to live with actually killing her.
What a wonderful world we live in. >

Wow. Hard to believe that they’re actually the best person in this whole scenario. >

I wouldn't go that far. Sometimes some poor drunk asshole wanders into traffic and gets hit because they're too wasted to know better. That's not the driver's fault and it happens more often than you'd think.
We usually assume the driver is at fault when they hit a pedestrian, but legally speaking they're not at fault if they had no way to predict the pedestrian or no time to stop. >

I had a conversation with a cement pumping truck driver. On 2 occasions he has had people commit suicide by jumping in front of his truck. He said they see it and know it’s heavy and can’t slow down and will 100% kill them. I think after two I’d be looking for a new job. >

My cousin drove a train.  Same thing.  He had 3-4 people jump in front of him over the years.  He also had a wide array of junk thrown off bridges hitting his train.  His locomotive had a cage welded over the windshield to deflect hurled objects. >

Man that is messed up. I used to have nightmares about shit like that. 
Then I saw a train that was crushed by a collapsed overpass and the same train tip over into another lane not long after. Train collisions are rare so that particular spot must have high insurance rates 
I grew up with someone who's job is to clean trainwrecks up. But they stay sitting "crashed" for so long after while the NTSB investigates.  I wonder if they must have to do it in waves to get any human remains up first. He said he's had to pick up a foot still in its sneaker >

I know a spot in the Appalachian mountains where a train derailed and fell down into the valley.  You can see the cars from the interstate when the trees lose their leaves. >

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. >

"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 >

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. >

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

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

Dives and older college campuses will serve you regardless >

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

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 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. >

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. >

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. >

The problem is that even is she was constantly looking into the camera and saying "I consent to sexual intercourse with these men", her absurdly high BAC render that "consent" null and void.  At that high a BAC she's not legally able to consent and no video will be able to change that. >

But here is my question. If they weren’t aware of how drunk she truly was could that be relevant?Like if you pound ten shots at the bar without me and I haven’t seen it, then we meet have a drink or two and go back to your house and have sex, you tell me you aren’t drunk and there’s nothing to refute that from what I observe, then what?
I’m not saying this is what happened, just a hypothetical. I know someone personally who can be black out drunk but they appear to be tipsy at worst. I get scared for them when they go to the bar alone. >

Well, according to the Louisiana law they're charged under, the wording is that they had to "know" or "should have known" about the victim's incapacity.  In this case security footage shows the girl stumbling around both inside and then leaving the bar - they definitely knew.
Now, as to your hypothetical...if someone like your acquaintance (and their alcohol tolerance) was the victim here I imagine it'd come down to a lot of other factors that I can't even guess about.
Also...any way you can keep them from going to the bar alone?  Either offer to let them drink to their heart's content at your place or to hang with them at their place or whatever so they're not off alone.  I agree that's some scary shit. >

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. >

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. >

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

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. >

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 >

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. >

I'm not advocating for it, but as a parent - how do you resist spending the rest of your life making sure these assholes pay the ultimate price for what they did to your kid?  Again, i am absolutely not saying to do that is right or ok, just emotionally, I can't grasp what her parents must be feeling. >

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 >

“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. >

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


"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. >

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

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

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. >

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 >

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

"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. >

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

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! >

Shame on the LSU President for making it about underage alcohol consumption. >

"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. >

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. >

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! >

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. >

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. >


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. >

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

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. >

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

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. >

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

.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. >

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

What a doozy of a headline >

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

I didn’t even have to look. >

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 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. >

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. >

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. >

Just imagine if the driver had been brought up to have had the balls to stop the rape, kick the rapists out of the car, and drive the poor girl to the hospital….
They all need to just be put down. >

Do your thing Louisiana. Fry em >

I was a freshman at LSU in the 90’s and grew up in New Orleans. I was also in a sorority. The culture back then was horrific. I personally was sexually assaulted at my junior prom when my friends left me passed out in a limo. A couple years later, they left me passed out in a parked car in a real shady part of NO. Of course I take responsibility for being blackout drunk, but at that time the drinking age was 18 and people were so out of control with it. This culture was widely accepted down there (and I am sure it is at other schools too) and I continue to watch my now-adult friends condone a culture of drinking to oblivion. As a mid-40’s woman now, those same friends don’t accept that I was assaulted. They think it’s dramatic to call it that. Bullshit. We need administrators and parents and peers (aka, the older members of these sororities and frats) to be looking out for girls like this one. Makes me so sad and sick that this poor girl died like this. >

As a father i can’t even imagine this, it’s so heartbreaking. These pieces of shit should never be aloud out again >

I am a father of 3, 2 girls 21-26, and they drink. My wife and I beat into thier brains not to leave thier drink unattended, do not leave with strangers, stay with your  friends, etc... Still scares me to this day. Thankfully nothing has happened >

Every living person in this story, from the rapist negligent man-slaughtering men, to the imbecillic attorney, to the bar owner/operator(s) to the truly idiotic sorority can all go directly to hell. >

Even Paddy's Pub wouldn't abide this shit. >

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

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. >

Nothing good happens in tigerland after midnight. Or before midnight.
*Edit: or at midnight >

Are the bar’s employees getting charged with giving a 19 year old alcohol? >

This world is so full of pain.    Everyone hug your loved ones. >

This is fucking heartbreaking >

Lets hear it for the shit head who let them all drink and then let them all leave and all the other kids he's done this shit too how many car accidents, assaults  and rapes has that fucker caused to make a buck oh and a big shout out to her so called friends who were either to dim or to selfish to have a desi and keep it to fucking geather lets make sure we don't forget about those fuckers too if my friend were even likely to get that blasted you know I wouldn't let her out of my sight Jesus