Luke Barrett Is A Real Menace To Society
August 4, 2009 by Jaded
Boulder, CO - Luke Barrett is a mess – not only is he sportin’ a couple of retarded tats, but check out that half ’stache! WTF is going on there? Not only is he a mess, but now he’s sitting in jail because officers with the Boulder PD have nothing but time on their hands. Now, Luke isn’t here because he raped/maimed/abused/or set fire to man, child, or beast – he’s here because he really shook someone up. And not in the literal sense either. (Ok. He’s really here because of the tard mug). Luke, a transient, approached a couple of teen boys FridayFriday reviews
night and called one of them, a black 15-year-old, a derogatory name. He put up his arms in a ‘fighting stance’ and said something to the effect of “Hey Mike Tyson, let’s box.” The teen said he didn’t want to fight and took a step back. At that point, Luke ran away. You would think that would’ve been the end of it, right? Nope.
Luke Barrett
The teens ran after him but were unable to catch up – so they flagged down a cop and informed him of the dire situation. Shortly after the officer took a suspect description from the teens, Luke was apprehended. He smelled of alcohol and admitted to approaching the teens and using language with the intent of “starting trouble.” What’s a cop to do? Give the guy a warning? Issue a citation? Lend him a razor? They arrested him and hauled him off to the pokey – because the victim “was shaken by what happened.” If he was so shaken by the *ahem* confrontation, why the fuck did they run after the dude? Luke, 26, didn’t lay a finger on either teen – didn’t harm a hair on their little head – but he now faces a charge of child abuse. And, for good measure, they are slapping him with a hate-crime charge too. Whew! You Boulderites can certainly sleep soundly tonight knowing this menace is behind bars.
This, surprisingly, isn’t Luke’s first brush with the law. Back in 2008, he was arrested and charged with trespassing and obstructing an officer after employees at a T-Mobile store discovered he had been living on the roof of the business. He got slapped with on obstruction charge for running from officers. Yep…a real menace.
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7:36 am on August 4th, 2009
Seriously?
Face AND neck tattoos…
Whatever it is he thinks he had inscribed in the center of his forehead just looks like a target to me.
8:31 am on August 4th, 2009
Wow, a hate crime. Well, his tattoos are deserving of a charge in and of themselves, for sure. But hate crime and child abuse, for that? Hmmm.
9:00 am on August 4th, 2009
I see nothing wrong with this. He wanted trouble, he got it. I agree the child abuse charge is a bit much, but as far as arresting and charging him with something, no problem here.
9:13 am on August 4th, 2009
He’ll get out of the hate crime charge easy peasy. Actually it sounds like the cops wanted to put a scare into him while most likely covering his ass from the guys on their bikes chasing.
Being all drunk and confrontational in the middle of the night in the middle of the street isn’t safe for anyone involved.
9:17 am on August 4th, 2009
Looks like his only crime was when he got hold of a sharpie and used a Spirograph on his forehead. That 1/2 ’stache is quite nice nice too lol.
11:24 am on August 4th, 2009
My guess is he’ll start scaring a few more teens when he gets out of jail. Hell, he’ll have a place to sleep and 3 meals a day in there. Transients are in the place they’re in for a reason, and this is society’s way dealing with them, which I don’t necessarily agree with. Hell, he probably thought the kid was Mike Tyson. Reminds me of the joke where a nun was walking down the street and out of the alley came a drunk who proceeded to beat the living shit out her. Finally when a couple of bystanders pulled him off, he looked at her and said “Take that Batman; you’re not so tough”.
12:49 pm on August 4th, 2009
It looks like he tried to have a mandala-type design put around the location of the Ajna Chakra (third eye). Methinks the artist missed.
I feel kind of bad for the guy, I doubt he’s quite right upstairs. No question that what he did was wrong and something should be done, but the severity of the charges seem… well, it’s been said already.
Hate crime laws make me edgy. It’s not the idea, it’s the irresponsible execution and the potential to exacerbate matters rather than actually addressing the inequalities in society.
1:08 pm on August 4th, 2009
So now we can get arrested for saying dumb things while drunk…..ummmm I better not ever leave the house or I could be in some trouble
11:08 pm on August 4th, 2009
Is that a real neck tat? Or a sharpie note? I blew the photo up and it looks like some kind of secret code, only Luke knows!!!
Poor guy, was he actually trying to get in trouble, so he would have a place to sleep and get fed? Couldn’t go to a homeless shelter if he was inebriated.
His under nourishment could cause mental issues!!
1:55 am on August 5th, 2009
His mother fucked cyclops. hence the forehead.
I can’t explain the neck tattoo. Neck tatoos suck!
12:08 pm on August 5th, 2009
So Jaded wrote this article like they think hate crimes are acceptable.
6:08 pm on August 5th, 2009
Hate crimes are not acceptable. But neither are hate crime charges, in my opinion.
If anything, this guy should have been charged with 4th degree assault. The kids perceived a reasonable threat, which is all that’s required of an assault charge. But, are you telling me that picking on these kids because one (or both) was black is inherently worse than picking on them because they were ugly or dressed poorly or live in a certain neighborhood?
Hate crime legislation not only, in essense, makes certain thoughts illegal, it consequently places a higher value on one man’s suffering than another. Neither of these things bodes well for American law, nor does it do anything to alleviate the disparities experienced by minority groups.
6:27 pm on August 5th, 2009
I am not really for hate crime laws, as I feel they unnecessarily open up a raging can of worms. I am not comfortable with the emphasis on who or what the victim is, rather than the crime itself. The justice system is not the place to reflect on bigotry and prejudice that might lead someone to commit a crime against someone. Now, there are special laws for when the victim is a child, for instance, but in that case the difference rests in the child’s obvious inherent physical and emotional disadvantage. To say the same thing when the perp and victim are two adults yet the victim is of a certain skin color is rather condescending towards that victim if you ask me.
What would be more appropriate, IMO, is for there to be a special website, much like DD, where perpetrators of so-called hate crimes can be shamed for their reason for committing the crime, in addition to being charged for the crime itself in a court of law. Shaming I’ve got no problem with!
8:30 pm on August 5th, 2009
No. I don’t find hate crime acceptable in the least. But I also don’t think this particular incident qualified as a ‘hate crime’.
The way I read the source article, it seems to me the derogatory remark made was ‘like Mike Tyson.’
4:48 am on August 6th, 2009
I don’t see where someone putting up their fists and saying, “Hey Mike Tyson, let’s box.” makes it where this incident can be classified as a hate crime. The guy was just a dumb drunk screwing around with a couple kids and if the “victims” were so “shooken up” by what happened, then why chase after the guy?
You must be knew here, because if you believe anything SoJaded wrote was racially motivated, than I think you need to start looking at every story she has written before this one because she has many, many, many stories about people doing horrible things to innocent victims of every race.
7:55 am on August 6th, 2009
Jesus, guys. So you guys are saying that if a drunk homeless person walks up to a teenagers and challenges them to a fight, but never lays a hand on them – and gets chased away by the teens – that this constitutes as a hate crime because he used racial slurs in the process of challenging them to a boxing match? That is absolutely asinine.
Jaded is not saying that racism is ok, nor did I even get that from reading this. I got that she finds it ridiculous that police arrest a man who didn’t do anything more than what hundreds of drunken retards do in bars across the US on any given day, and that is to start a fight. But not only did this guy not get in a a fight – not assaulting anyone physically – he was the one who ended up scared for his safety when he ran from the teens chasing him. But because he used a racial slur, he is charged with hate crime and arrested. The guy is an obvious sack of fail, as Jaded mentioned numerous times, but come on…a hate crime?
8:46 am on August 6th, 2009
I once told a mouthy teenager at the movies that I would slap her so hard her mother’s uterus would contract. Then I said I hated teenagers. I wonder if there is a warrant out for my arrest?
2:29 pm on August 6th, 2009
There probably is……
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