My Single Mom Life

Yesterday afternoon, the teens went to Publix to get some subs, soda, and some snacks.
On their way back home, 4 teenagers, 3 white and 1 hispanic, stopped the boys up at the apartment complex right up the street, and asked them for a couple cans out of the 12 pack of the Brisk iced tea the teens bought.
Mark said no, told them to go buy some themselves.
The hispanic teen told the teens that they were homeless and thirsty, so Mark replied to go get a job and stay at the homeless shelter.
2 of the teenage thugs walked away, they wanted no part of it, and then the white teen punched Sebastian in the stomach area, and then saw the ace bandage that Sebastian has been wearing on his knee because he pulled a muscle in it from slipping and falling a few days ago.
The white teen then kicked him right in that knee, and Sebastian dropped to the ground.
The hispanic then grabbed the 12 pack of iced tea, Sebastian grabbed it back and it ripped open, and then the hispanic grabbed 4 cans of the tea while Mark was pulling the white kid off of Sebastian.
The hispanic teen told Mark "Stay out of it, don't you dare hit my boy or I'll cut you", and he patted his right front pocket to show Mark that he had a knife.
A teenager in a house across the street came out and said that he was going to call the cops, and so the teenage thugs took off with 4 cans of ice tea, then my teens picked up the rest of the cans and came home.

They walked in the door and Mark said "We got mugged for our iced tea, I'm calling the cops."
The cops came and took my teens names and dates of birth, and their statements.
Suddenly there were 6 cop cars in front of my house because 3 other people had called it in, they were witnesses willing to give statements, and all of them said that what happened was not the fault of my teens, the teen thugs are the ones who stopped my teens, threw punches and kicked Sebastian, and all of them said that Mark never threw a single punch, he simply pulled the white teen off of Sebastian.
Sebastian knows the teenage thugs, he goes to school with them, and so the cops rode Mark and Sebastian up to the apartment complex and started asking people where the 2 thugs lived.
The 2 white teens who were not involved immediately gave up the other 2 who actually attacked my teens.
The cops found the hispanic teen, he answered the door of his apartment holding and drinking 1 of the cans of iced tea.
The cops asked him where he got the can of iced tea, he was all "um, uh, I found it".
The cops asked if he really found it, or did he take it off of 2 teenagers walking home from the store.
He hummed and hawed again, and the cops took that as a yes, he took it from the teens, so they cuffed him and put him in the back of the cruiser.
What he did was now his third strike in a state that has a 3 strikes you're out law.
He's screwed.
The white teen who hit and kicked Sebastian, is now on his third strike as well, so he's screwed too.
That teen took off running, but like I said, there were 6 cops here for this, and he was found and cuffed and stuck in a cruiser too.
The cops then asked Mark and Sebastian to say yes or no when he rolled the window down so that my teens could identify them.
They identified the white teen, and they identified the hispanic teen, and when they identified him, he started crying immediately because he knows he's going down big time.

The district attorney called today, they need my teens to go down to the DA's office on Wednesday to give their official statements so this can go to court.
Because Mark is 18, he can legally press charges on the 2 teen thugs who mugged them, so the DA didn't even want to talk to me today, but I do have to go on Wednesday because Sebastian is still a minor.
The DA is pressing charges and asking for the max because both of the teen thugs are on their third strike, they are both going down big.
The 2 teen thugs are both 17, so they will go to juvenile jail until they turn 18, and then they will go to the big house.
Because the hispanic teen threatened Mark and indicated that he had a knife, he's being charged with a felony assault in the first degree, and conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree.
Even if he didn't have a knife in his pocket, he's getting charged with both of those because even threatening to stab someone is a felony, he's so totally screwed over a couple cans of iced tea.

It's just mind blowing that they did that over a couple cans of iced tea.
My boys are not being charged with anything at all because in Florida, if you're attacked, you are allowed to defend yourself by any means necessary.
Mark didn't hit either of them, but Sebastian did elbow the white kid in the head when he was struggling to get the 12 pack back.

I'm still shocked that they did that over a couple cans of iced tea.
They both knew that if they did any kind of crime that they would be on their third strike, yet they attacked my sons over a couple cans of iced tea.
How freaking stupid do you have to be to physically attack someone for a couple cans of iced tea?