Posted on 08/08/2021 12:23:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
When Rasheedat Fetuga became a teacher, she worked hard to help protect her students, many of them poor and from a nearby housing project. When one of her favorites was shot and killed at 16, she stood at his funeral and vowed to do more.
That was the beginning of the Gideon’s Army violence interrupters, a small group that works in predominantly (b)lack North Nashville to defuse tense situations before they become violent.
Their primary focus is a 228-unit housing project formally known as the Cumberland View Apartments but more commonly referred to by its nickname, Dodge City, for the amount of gun violence that has historically occurred there.
The violence interrupters include Hambino Godbody, who grew up in Cumberland View and still has DCP (Dodge City Projects) tattooed on the back of his left hand.
“We’re the cure to the violence in real life. We know we are because we cured ourselves first,” he said.
Violent crime has spiked nationwide after plummeting in the early months of the pandemic, with many cities seeing double-digit increases in gun violence. President Joe Biden’s administration has sent strike forces to Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., to help take down gun networks, and has encouraged states to use COVID-19 relief money to hire police or counselors. …
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Oh yeah call 911, we need a VI over here ASAP…
I just don’t care what that particular demographic does to themselves. They live that way because they like it. If they didn’t want to live that way, the solutions are simple.
The left tries to make things about demographics; it’s an extension of their philosophy of basing society on hatred. And situations like this are actually learned rather than innate.
Illinois police department disbanded due to unfunding
Officers quit
August 8, 2021
Is an “interrupter” similar to a ‘disconnector’?
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