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Boy, 9, gunned down in backyard: 'Why? Just a child'
Chicago Tribune ^
| August 21, 2014
| By Jeremy Gorner, Deanese Williams-Harris
Posted on 08/21/2014 7:10:10 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Antonio Smith liked to tease girls and show off his dance moves in front of his buddies. He loved playing football. Pretty much like any 9-year-old boy..
Wednesday afternoon, Antonio was found in the backyard of a house in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on the South Side, shot in the chest, hands and arms. He died an hour later at Comer Children's Hospital, where his cousins were at a loss to explain why anyone would want to gun down the third-grader.
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TOPICS: Local News; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; child; violence
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Don't snitch. That is the key.
To: ConservativeStatement
That’s what happens when you “take it to the alley” like Rahmbo said to do.
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:12:06 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: ConservativeStatement
What? No looting yet? Where’s the “outrage”? We need a little “outrage” here! Hrumpf! Hrumpf!
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:13:45 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(America is not a refugee camp! It's my home!)
To: ConservativeStatement
South side? Odds are he was a young black child killed by a black man with a gun.
but we are not supposed to give saturation media coverage to such a shocking shooting.
Instead, we will save the saturation coverage for an incident in which a white cop shoots a black man, quite likely justifiably, and twist a storyline to say that racism is the reason he got shot.
To: Olog-hai
It could have been one of those gang initiations where the “inductee”has to kill someone.
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:14:47 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: ConservativeStatement
So are the agitators in Ferguson going to travel to Chicago to protest this killing? How about some looting or Molotov cocktails in memory of Antonio Smith?
To: ConservativeStatement
How old is the older brother? ...gang related?
To: ConservativeStatement
Almost all these cases are the result of poor shooting. If the thugs would learn to shoot properly they might start killing each other off. Instead they don’t know how to aim, the other thug doesn’t get a scratch and some innocent kid gets hit.
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:16:05 AM PDT
by
logic101.net
(How many more children must die on the altar of gun free zones?)
To: ConservativeStatement
To: ConservativeStatement
So when will Al, Jesse, Eric and the rest of the gang be arriving in Chicago to demand that this boy’s murderer be brought to justice?
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:17:51 AM PDT
by
Above My Pay Grade
(The people have the right to tell government what guns it may possess, not the other way around.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Must have been a white cop. They are always doing stuff like that.
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:17:58 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
To: ConservativeStatement
What time do the protests start? What’s Sharpton’s flight #? How about Eric Holder?
((((crickets))))
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:18:05 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
To: logic101.net
It wasn’t a stray shot.The article says the kid was hit multiple times.
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:18:49 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: ConservativeStatement
Antonio Smith liked to tease girls... Question the neighborhood girls. It's obviously a case of bullying and retaliation.
/s
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:19:18 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Wilby 2016)
To: ConservativeStatement
......and no description of the gunman was released."A Clue! A Clue!"
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:19:51 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: ConservativeStatement
THIS is what blacks should be protesting against, enmasse, every single day.
To: ConservativeStatement
Little black boy in a violent black gangbanger neighborhood. Nothing knew here.
I guess this little boy doesn't matter, just gangbangers like Michael Brown.
To: Above My Pay Grade
So when will Al, Jesse, Eric and the rest of the gang be arriving in Chicago to demand that this boys murderer be brought to justice?
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:22:05 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: ConservativeStatement
Holder is on the job, probing for the truth.
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posted on
08/21/2014 7:23:03 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(If it doesn't include border security, it isn't "reform." It's called "amnesty.")
To: dfwgator
Yeppers..
it was probably Blue and Magenta..
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