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NO ONE was more shocked than Joesiah Briggs at the confronting photograph of himself wielding a weightlifting bar on The Courier-Mail's front page yesterday.
The 18-year-old engineering student says the angry young man pictured on the streets of Woodridge, south of Brisbane, does not reflect who he is and he wants to apologise.
"That was me, but it's not me," he said as calm returned to the suburb yesterday.
"I've been brought up from the day I was born to right now in a Christian home. I regret doing that and I'm sorry."
Joesiah was in Townsville when his parents' Woodridge home was attacked on Saturday night during a dispute with a Tongan family living in the same street.
Days of violence followed until the two warring families finally declared the fight was over yesterday and pledged to repair the damage to the community.
As peace returned, Joesiah said his mother Bronwyn's anguish convinced him of the need to personally apologise for his part in the clashes.
Like Obama's "Nigga moment" on boondocks?
NO ONE was more shocked than Joesiah Briggs at the confronting photograph of himself wielding a weightlifting bar on The Courier-Mail's front page yesterday.
The 18-year-old engineering student says the angry young man pictured on the streets of Woodridge, south of Brisbane, does not reflect who he is and he wants to apologise.
"That was me, but it's not me," he said as calm returned to the suburb yesterday.
"I've been brought up from the day I was born to right now in a Christian home. I regret doing that and I'm sorry."
Joesiah was in Townsville when his parents' Woodridge home was attacked on Saturday night during a dispute with a Tongan family living in the same street.
Days of violence followed until the two warring families finally declared the fight was over yesterday and pledged to repair the damage to the community.
As peace returned, Joesiah said his mother Bronwyn's anguish convinced him of the need to personally apologise for his part in the clashes.
Like Obama's "Nigga moment" on boondocks?
