Dear viewers of the Daily News, 

On today's topic we have the trial of The People vs. Columbus’s Men.  On trial, we had Colubus’s men which were the ones he traveled with. The defendant's attorney claimed negligence. They blamed Christopher Columbus as the person who was responsible for all of what they did. From our sources, we gather that Columbus’s men tried to victimize themselves and were not able to take accountability for what they have done. To summarize what the prosecutor said they claim they were just doing their jobs but no person who was just doing there would go to that extent, which really gets us to think. Columbus’s men, themselves, stated that what they did was made out of “survival.” When they were feeding infants to dogs, was that also out of survival? There you have it, my loyal readers, the events of what occurred in the trial of The People vs. Columbus’s Men. I can firmly say that the jury will convict them guilty. This case was beautifully handled by the prosecutor and the defendant's attorney who both put on a great case.  

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Columbus’ men stand trial of being accused of the genocide of the Tainos in the years 1492 and ‘93. They had pleaded not guilty to these accusations. 

The prosecutors had stated their claims to try and prove these men as guilty. The prosecutor uses hard evidence to back their claims and attempts to show the jury and judge that the men are guilty. It was explained that the men had the capability of making rational decisions, but decided against it. To simply paraphrase the prosecutor’s claims, the following could be said; “Columbus and his men made decisions to kill and attack the Tainos. They looked into the eyes of people while killing them, killing their infants and feeding them to animals. They obeyed evil commanders out of their own volition. They are without a doubt guilty. ”

The defendants now tried to prove their clients as innocent.  They had said that Columbus’ men were not guilty because they were in a war against the Tainos. All these attacks and deaths were just results of war. They had included this because the Tainos did indeed retaliate against the acts of Columbus’ men when they had first come upon the Tainos’ land. The defendants had also stated that; “Columbus’ men were lied to by their commander, their leader, someone they were led to trust. If Columbus said the Tainos were savages and wanted to kill us so we had to attack first, we obeyed, we carried out the orders. He is their boss for a reason, what he says goes.”

 

To take a guess, the jury may believe that Columbus’ men are in fact not guilty. This is because the jury may take into account the fact that they are under the rule of a hand appointed man,  chosen by their King and Queen themselves. They are obviously inferior and felt they had no other choice but to listen to Columbus’ orders. Who knows what would’ve happened if they didn’t obey, and the men did not want to take the chance to find out. 

By: Jamie Brache 

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A lot of people were confused about who actually discovered America, people say it was Christopher Columbus, but before he came to américa many people were already here. They were native americans, but Christopher actually stole the land and said he was the one who discovered it. People where in-slaved and to this day we celebrate a day that is a lie. 

By:  Destiny Jimenez

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Reporter Destiny here! We recently had a grand court case as to where Columbus men were on trial, Charged with the death of millions of Tainos deaths.

The men constantly claimed that their jobs were threatened if they didn't do what Columbus asked them to do. They did it for the money, to support themselves and their families. Though this was easily diminished, as it was stated Columbus told them they can do anything they want with the Tainos. They made the choice to feed infant babies to dogs, they made the choice to slice Tainos to test out how “sharp” their swords are, Thus leading to a 90% decrease in the population of the Tainos. I’m sure our Judges are sure these men are guilty as charged!