The family of a 26-year-old Louisiana man who has brain damage after a friend allegedly pushed him into a lake despite him being unable to swim is calling on authorities to deliver them justice.

Christopher Gilbert’s family’s pleas came after he nearly drowned on 14 April while at a lakefront restaurant by Lake D’Arbonne in the northern Louisiana town of Farmerville.

Speaking to the local news station KSLA, Gilbert’s mother Yolanda George said: “A friend of his called. She was hysterical, crying on the phone. She told me that Chris had [fallen] into the lake, and he had been underwater for 20 minutes or so.”

George said her son – an aspiring medical doctor – was rescued and taken to a nearby hospital. She added: “The doctor called us in and told me that at that time, he was brain-dead, pretty much, and the rest of his organs were starting to fail, and that we had 72 hours on” life support, though Gilbert later regained consciousness and the ability to eat on his own.

An attorney for Gilbert’s family, Claudia Payne, told KSLA that the friend group initially told police that he had fallen into the lake. But further investigation, he said, found that a female friend had pushed him into the water.

“She actually admitted to [Gilbert’s] mom – as well as the police officers – that she pushed him into the lake,” Payne said. “In the legal field, we categorize things the way we see fit, so of course they are saying horseplay. We are saying that it was a criminal intentional push into the lake.”

She added that one of the friends from the group attempted to pull Gilbert out, but it was ultimately a restaurant customer who rescued him.

Describing her reaction upon seeing her son for the first time at the hospital, George said: “I was devastated. I felt like my life had ended in that moment.

“My son is aspiring to be a medical doctor – my son is going to be a medical doctor. He got his master’s last year in biological science. He’s preparing for medical school so for this to have happened to him … I was just devastated.”

George recalled the conversation she had with the friend who pushed Gilbert into the lake. She remembered asking, “Why would you push my son in the lake, knowing he couldn’t swim?”

In response, the friend reportedly said: “Well ma’am, I didn’t know that man couldn’t swim.”

Gilbert replied: “Who is ‘that man?’ This is supposed to be amongst a group of friends. Who is ‘that man?’ Chris? Everybody knows he can’t swim.

“Even when we went to the restaurant, the owner of the restaurant even stated, ‘Everybody knows Chris can’t swim.’ He’s been coming here for two years. He’s always joking about it.”

According to Payne, Gilbert’s family wants police to arrest the person who allegedly pushed him into the lake. They are also seeking for the restaurant owner to be held liable for not keeping Chris safe as a patron of the establishment.

A change.org supporting the Gilbert family’s wishes had collected more than 2,600 signatures as of Sunday.

Gilbert had woken up as of Friday, was able to eat on his own and had been temporarily taken off life support, KNOE reported.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/05/louisiana-man-brain-damage-lake




I wanted to post this because every black parent must have this conversation with their kids, and stop them from being isolated with these people.

This is not an uncommon story (e.g. Caleb Obari, Tamla Horsford). Police and media sweep these cases under the rug. It's a part of the reality that l**** mobs never actually stopped.

Nonblacks are mentally ill. They are not normal people.
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An aspiring medical student was left brain dead last month when his friends pushed him into a Louisiana lake knowing he couldn’t swim — and then looked on while doing nothing to save the drowning man, according to a report.

Shocking video shows the group casually peering into the water moments after they shoved Christopher Gilbert off the dock at Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville on April 14.

At least one woman can be seen slowly entering the water before abandoning the rescue mission.

It was another 10 minutes before a patron at a nearby restaurant intervened and yanked Gilbert back to land — just in the nick of time.

I don't think black people truly understand that only black people possess the humanity and mental capacity to relate normally to other human beings. This doesn't present a problem for us. Even something like Yoruba vs Igbo, or gang violence could never compare to how nonblacks think.

Nonblacks don't think normally like we do. They don't.

Most black people just assume that these people think normally because they see them do/achieve/live in a way that suggests it. But that's just the surface. And mind you, they only have what they do from constant destruction, theft, oppression, deception, and etc.

They also hide who they really are from media and certain company. And they stay "on code" about hiding that. Most of you will probably never see a glimpse of who they really are.

They literally believe things that you would think impossible for anyone who is educated, lives in a developed country, and has spent generations in a developed, urban environment. There's something very, very wrong with them. There's no other way to describe it but mental illness or sociopathy or some other lack of normal biological function. These people even try to defend their behavior by saying "Well, we're all animals." Think about that. When have you ever thought to defend your behavior by claiming similarity to animals? Who even thinks in that way? That's not something that comes from a healthy mind.

ETA: They're like a child abuser or serial killer, meaning, they present as totally normal (job, marriage, education, friends, active in church/community, well-liked), but still think abnormally and do terrible things. This is probably the best way to summarize what I'm trying to convey as far as the threat posed by these people and how they think.

Cousin9999:
I don't think black people truly understand that only black people possess the humanity and mental capacity to relate normally to other human beings. This doesn't present a problem for us. Even something like Yoruba vs Igbo, or gang violence could never compare to how nonblacks think.

Nonblacks don't think normally like we do. They don't.

Most black people just assume that these people think normally because they see them do/achieve/live in a way that suggests it. But that's just the surface. And mind you, they only have what they do from constant destruction, theft, oppression, deception, and etc.

They also hide who they really are from media and certain company. And they stay "on code" about hiding that. Most of you will probably never see a glimpse of who they really are.

They literally believe things that you would think impossible for anyone who is educated, lives in a developed country, and has spent generations in a developed, urban environment. There's something very, very wrong with them. There's no other way to describe it but mental illness or sociopathy or some other lack of normal biological function. These people even try to defend their behavior by saying "Well, we're all animals." Think about that. When have you ever thought to defend your behavior by claiming similarity to animals? Who even thinks in that way? That's not something that comes from a healthy mind.

What of the girl who was recently pushed into a pot of frying pepper and tomatoes by her "friends"? Were they not black?

NaBanga:


What of the girl who was recently pushed into a pot of frying pepper and tomatoes by her "friends"? Were they not black?

Okay, I don't want to offend you, or come across as though that's my goal. Nothing but respect. Here's what your response brings to mind:

1.) I wonder how you were raised and how much love you have for your own people. I wonder if you're the type of person that constantly has negative things to say about your own people, and if you believe the propaganda that comes from whites. I wonder if you understand how people engineer certain conditions, or if you even accept that as possible.

2.) We can separate the norm from what is not. What you described is not the norm.

The people you described likely come from an environment full of dysfunction and trauma. That environment literally turns normal people into sociopaths. How? By disrupting normal biological and psychological development. By establishing the capacity to view/experience/execute abnormality as normal. By "breaking" things biologically and psychologically. You can actually describe in detail how this happens.

The nonblacks I describe think and behave this way regardless of the conditions they were born into. It is their norm.

Cousin9999:


Okay, I don't want to offend you, or come across as though that's my goal. Nothing but respect. Here's what your response brings to mind:

1.) I wonder how you were raised and how much love you have for your own people. I wonder if you're the type of person that constantly has negative things to say about your own people, and if you believe the propaganda that comes from whites. I wonder if you understand how people engineer certain conditions, or if you even accept that as possible.

2.) We can separate the norm from what is not. What you described is not the norm.

The people you described likely come from an environment full of dysfunction and trauma. That environment literally turns normal people into sociopaths. How? By disrupting normal biological and psychological development. By establishing the capacity to view/experience/execute abnormality as normal. By "breaking" things biologically and psychologically. You can actually describe in detail how this happens.

The nonblacks I describe think and behave this way regardless of the conditions they were born into. It is their norm.

I went to school with whites from a small age to graduate school. I have worked with them. I have been in many situations where I have been the only black person. I am still here standing. What of Shanquella Robinson that was killed by her friends in Mexico? You are more likely to be killed by a fellow black person than a white person.

NaBanga:
I went to school with whites from a small age to graduate school.

I'm skeptical.

I have worked with them. I have been in many situations where I have been the only black person. I am still here standing.

Consider yourself lucky that they didn't try to harm you, or make a false accusation of sexual assault.

What of Shanquella Robinson that was killed by her friends in Mexico?

My previous analysis applies.

You are more likely to be killed by a fellow black person than a white person.

Statistically, people tend to live near their own people, and statistically people tend to commit crimes against people they're around the most. You're more likely to get stung by a jellyfish if you surf a lot, but that doesn't mean that a bunch of other things beyond the beach can't and/or are unlikely to harm you.

The racist clown cousin999 is back . Meanwhile more black men kill white men in America. The data is online

ednut1:
The racist clown cousin999 is back . Meanwhile more black men kill white men in America. The data is online

I'm sorry, but it blows my mind whenever a black person actually refers to telling the truth about nonblacks as "racist." It's so absurd, it's almost funny. And I hope you know these people do NOT defend you like this. Quite the opposite in fact.

I'm guessing you lay next to a white woman every night, and if that's the case, I'm not having any discussion with you because your mind is finished. If I'm wrong, then pardon me.

But getting back to the actual discussion, you're literally spewing a racist talking point from white nationalists. And it's not even a viable argument because that statistic doesn't prove that whites aren't a threat. Many of these crimes by whites against black people aren't even reported, aren't investigated, are dismissed in some way, or get categorized as something else. That was one of the first things I stated.

And the stats you posted, if anything, are yet another example of how oppression by white people creates crime, dysfunction, and trauma:

Cousin9999:
I wanted to post this because every black parent must have this conversation with their kids, and stop them from being isolated with these people.

This is not an uncommon story (e.g. Caleb Obari, Tamla Horsford). Police and media sweep these cases under the rug. It's a part of the reality that l**** mobs never actually stopped.

Nonblacks are mentally ill. They are not normal people.
_________________________________________________________________________________________
An aspiring medical student was left brain dead last month when his friends pushed him into a Louisiana lake knowing he couldn’t swim — and then looked on while doing nothing to save the drowning man, according to a report.

Shocking video shows the group casually peering into the water moments after they shoved Christopher Gilbert off the dock at Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville on April 14.

At least one woman can be seen slowly entering the water before abandoning the rescue mission.

It was another 10 minutes before a patron at a nearby restaurant intervened and yanked Gilbert back to land — just in the nick of time.

https://nypost.com/2024/05/04/us-news/louisiana-aspiring-doctor-christopher-gilbert-left-brain-dead-after-friends-push-him-in-lake-to-drown/

A more detailed article is here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/05/louisiana-man-brain-damage-lake

@ justwise. Using nairaland to spread racist rhetorics

NaBanga:


I went to school with whites from a small age to graduate school. I have worked with them. I have been in many situations where I have been the only black person. I am still here standing. What of Shanquella Robinson that was killed by her friends in Mexico? You are more likely to be killed by a fellow black person than a white person.

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You better learn and be careful around them. They are not your friends. These are people who practice racism and most of their culture support not talking and friendly with people. Especially the European whites.
Most white parents always teach their kids to run to a big black guy whenever they are lost and never to approach a white man.
If you are black just be careful around them. They are masters of fake appearance.

Maria96:
@ justwise. Using nairaland to spread racist rhetorics

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You guys never learn.

Cousin9999:
I wanted to post this because every black parent must have this conversation with their kids, and stop them from being isolated with these people.

This is not an uncommon story (e.g. Caleb Obari, Tamla Horsford). Police and media sweep these cases under the rug. It's a part of the reality that l**** mobs never actually stopped.

Nonblacks are mentally ill. They are not normal people.
_________________________________________________________________________________________
An aspiring medical student was left brain dead last month when his friends pushed him into a Louisiana lake knowing he couldn’t swim — and then looked on while doing nothing to save the drowning man, according to a report.

Shocking video shows the group casually peering into the water moments after they shoved Christopher Gilbert off the dock at Lake D’Arbonne in Farmerville on April 14.

At least one woman can be seen slowly entering the water before abandoning the rescue mission.

It was another 10 minutes before a patron at a nearby restaurant intervened and yanked Gilbert back to land — just in the nick of time.

https://nypost.com/2024/05/04/us-news/louisiana-aspiring-doctor-christopher-gilbert-left-brain-dead-after-friends-push-him-in-lake-to-drown/

A more detailed article is here: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/05/louisiana-man-brain-damage-lake

You are blabbing hogwash, absolute malarkey


If you offended some of your white friends who decided to take a revenge on you, then that is your own cross to carry, don't come here to tell us boomshyyyyt when we all know better. In fact don't ever dare talk this buncombe again


Whites are more humane than blacks in too many comparisons.


The level of tribalism in Nigeria alone makes your claim irrelevant.

If blacks had the privilege and first enlightenment, civilization and development whites have, believe me, white people would have been turned to mere pets for black kids.


Black South Africans hate their fellow black Africans such that they kill, maim and destroy their livelihoods out of wickedness to fellow blacks just because white south Africans helped them develop their own country better than other black nations.


If Yorubas of our time have the privilege to have their region become something close to New York, they will start serious xenophobic attack on Igbos who are their fellow blacks and fellow countrymen and you are here talking rubbish.


Fulani people will invade a community at midnight, and brutally kill and massacre every living and none living things including innocent babies and weak old men and women in the name of rearing cow abi cattle. This is black man dehumanizing fellow black on daily basis all over West and Central Africa.


Did you see how Buhari governed Nigeria? By publicly dividing and segregating tribes and he got massive support from Yorubas who saw no wrong in his divisive leadership for 8 good years and you are here telling us nonsense stories. Don't get me angry please.



Abeg go and find another thing to do with your idle time

Notice how I stated "nonblacks," yet a bunch of people are in here defending whites specifically like their life depends on it. One of the worst things a black person can be is a sellout. And they're not much different from the common criminals terrorizing our nations and communities.

Majority of them are comfortable hanging the slavery tag over there. Not my business.

franchasofficia:
You are blabbing hogwash, absolute malarkey


If you offended some of your white friends who decided to take a revenge on you, then that is your own cross to carry, don't come here to tell us boomshyyyyt when we all know better. In fact don't ever dare talk this buncombe again


Whites are more humane than blacks in too many comparisons.


The level of tribalism in Nigeria alone makes your claim irrelevant.

If blacks had the privilege and first enlightenment, civilization and development whites have, believe me, white people would have been turned to mere pets for black kids.


Black South Africans hate their fellow black Africans such that they kill, maim and destroy their livelihoods out of wickedness to fellow blacks just because white south Africans helped them develop their own country better than other black nations.


If Yorubas of our time have the privilege to have their region become something close to New York, they will start serious xenophobic attack on Igbos who are their fellow blacks and fellow countrymen and you are here talking rubbish.


Fulani people will invade a community at midnight, and brutally kill and massacre every living and none living things including innocent babies and weak old men and women in the name of rearing cow abi cattle. This is black man dehumanizing fellow black on daily basis all over West and Central Africa.


Did you see how Buhari governed Nigeria? By publicly dividing and segregating tribes and he got massive support from Yorubas who saw no wrong in his divisive leadership for 8 good years and you are here telling us nonsense stories. Don't get me angry please.



Abeg go and find another thing to do with your idle time

this person called cousin has never left Nigeria before.

He is better of with white friends than black friends in Africa.

Why are they playing near the lake in the first place mtheeww 😡

omoredia:
He is better of with white friends than black friends in Africa.

what a few cards short of a full deck.

Edited

Champions of tribalism in Nigeria are now the ones claiming to be against racism in America. Bloody Hypocrites

Cousin9999:
I don't think black people truly understand that only black people possess the humanity and mental capacity to relate normally to other human beings. This doesn't present a problem for us. Even something like Yoruba vs Igbo, or gang violence could never compare to how nonblacks think.

Nonblacks don't think normally like we do. They don't.

Its either u live under d rock or u are an hypocrite.
We have the same problem here: as theirs is called 'racism', ours is called 'tribalism'.

Here you have someone asking for your head to be chopped off for committing a crime but d same person defends another fellow who did worse just because of 'blodahood'.

Here u have situatuons where we jointly agree to clean the augean stable by 'doing away' with those we consider corrupt and evil, but some will connive and protect ppl they consider kins, while joining hands with you in killing urs.

Most black people just assume that these people think normally because they see them do/achieve/live in a way that suggests it. But that's just the surface. And mind you, they only have what they do from constant destruction, theft, oppression, deception, and etc.

In the light of what i said earlier, does it show that some of us are normal??

Look in the mirror bro.
As u are pointing an accusing finger at the whites take a closer look, 4 fingers are pointing inwards towards us!

In this same nigeria, you have a group of ppl who killed a pregnant woman and her 4 kids in broad daylight just because she came from a region/ppl they hate and unfortunately, she found herself soujourning amongst them.
Her three sins were that she was from the 'wrong' region, practicing the 'wrong' religion and found herself in the 'wrong' place.

https://dailytrust.com/tears-as-woman-4-kids-killed-by-ipob-buried-in-anambra/#:~:text=15%3A40%20WAT-,The%20pregnant%20woman%2C%20Harira%20Jubril%20and%20her%20four%20female%20children,Wednesday%20in%20Awka%2C%20Anambra%20State.

Na other ppl mata we sabi carry for head like gala whilst our own dey there dey stare us fir face.
Physician, heal thyself

GRACEGLORY:



SMH

White man no good una go still enter desert to go to white man's land. FooIs

White man no good una go still enter desert to go to white man's land. FooIs

Fvcking racists

This is callous!

White people have this hidden "hate" and "jealousy" when they see a high-flying black person.

We are different. Don't overdo to be accepted. There was someone here who shared a story of how he was kicked out of his shared apartment because white housemates went to report to the landlord that he was unfriendly. Dude said he was disrespected and decided to define boundaries only for them to feel uncomfortable.

There was a guy in Poland or Ukraine who was studying medicine. He was murdered by his white girlfriend and her father with a hammer. He was an only child and the girl was not even arrested "because she was a nursing mother". There was the Nigerian murdered by his white American onlyfans model girlfriend. What has become of the case?

It may not necessarily be about white people, but everyone in general. Pay attention to your friends. Your life can be in their hands sometime. Any friend who makes a joke at your expense, a joke you are not comfortable with, end that friendship. Listening to the way the friend who pushed this guy casually remarked that how could a guy not be able to swim is speaking, she is not even remorseful. Other friends were there and left him until someone outside their circle rescued him.

Better learn to be alone and enjoy your company than be with those who can potentially kill you.

A good news, another good news...which would soon happens to marco reus and david luiz...

Cousin9999:


I'm sorry, but it blows my mind whenever a black person actually refers to telling the truth about nonblacks as "racist." It's so absurd, it's almost funny. And I hope you know these people do NOT defend you like this. Quite the opposite in fact.

I'm guessing you lay next to a white woman every night, and if that's the case, I'm not having any discussion with you because your mind is finished. If I'm wrong, then pardon me.

But getting back to the actual discussion, you're literally spewing a racist talking point from white nationalists. And it's not even a viable argument because that statistic doesn't prove that whites aren't a threat. Many of these crimes by whites against black people aren't even reported, aren't investigated, are dismissed in some way, or get categorized as something else. That was one of the first things I stated.

And the stats you posted, if anything, are yet another example of how oppression by white people creates crime, dysfunction, and trauma:

Tribalism is worse than Racism

What a wicked world.

Cousin9999:
I don't think black people truly understand that only black people possess the humanity and mental capacity to relate normally to other human beings. This doesn't present a problem for us. Even something like Yoruba vs Igbo, or gang violence could never compare to how nonblacks think.

Nonblacks don't think normally like we do. They don't.

Most black people just assume that these people think normally because they see them do/achieve/live in a way that suggests it. But that's just the surface. And mind you, they only have what they do from constant destruction, theft, oppression, deception, and etc.

They also hide who they really are from media and certain company. And they stay "on code" about hiding that. Most of you will probably never see a glimpse of who they really are.

They literally believe things that you would think impossible for anyone who is educated, lives in a developed country, and has spent generations in a developed, urban environment. There's something very, very wrong with them. There's no other way to describe it but mental illness or sociopathy or some other lack of normal biological function. These people even try to defend their behavior by saying "Well, we're all animals." Think about that. When have you ever thought to defend your behavior by claiming similarity to animals? Who even thinks in that way? That's not something that comes from a healthy mind.

ETA: They're like a child abuser or serial killer, meaning, they present as totally normal (job, marriage, education, friends, active in church/community, well-liked), but still think abnormally and do terrible things. This is probably the best way to summarize what I'm trying to convey as far as the threat posed by these people and how they think.

Better stop reading that "we was king" panafricanism bs you're on. Imagine, "non blacks". So na only blacks get sense yet you're at the bottom of society everywhere and have the highest crime rate

All this Una argument about black versus white will not give the poor boy a speedy recovery...

I wish him a speedy recovery...

Hang on to life brother....