Posted on 07/28/2016 2:05:43 PM PDT by BBell
The last time Alesia Martes saw her son, Devon, was Tuesday night (July 26) at their Metairie home. She said they were sitting on the living room couch and he was rubbing her head, saying, "My momma, oh I love my momma."
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Just before midnight, Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Deputy David Dalton fatally shot Devon Martes six times inside the warehouse after the teenager pointed a 9mm pistol at him, authorities said.
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The next morning, the police knocked on the family's door around 8 a.m., and after searching the house, they told Martes the tragic news.
"Devon was a really kind person but he just got himself caught up in too much stuff," Martes said of her son. "He really wasn't a bad boy, but he put himself in that situation. He put himself in harm's way."
Of the deputies, she said: "They had to do what they had to do."
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Devon Martes was one of 11 children, five boys and six girls. He played basketball at Grace King High School and was about to enter the 11th grade. Martes said her children never wanted for anything.
"He had brand new tennis shoes he never put on. There's no reason for you to do this," she said. "You got a momma and a dad. That's one blessing right there. We work, we come home. We work, we come home and we take care of them. We just took them Sunday to Gulfport, to the Gulf Island Water Park."
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"It's just too hard. It's like déjà vu all over again," she said.
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"They didn't have to shoot him that many times," she said. "He's really short and small. Six times was just too many times. But like I said, he put himself in harm's way by doing that kind of stuff."
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Another DNC future speaker.
She and her husband did their best to raise him right, but he turned away, got with a bad crowd. End result was a dead kid.
Not from what I read.
She says he put himself in that position.
NOT defending anybody, and she doesn’t blame the cops, but when i was in late teens, early 20s, I could picture my family saying i was a really kind person, even if some of my escapades had ended badly.
I know some gangsters that are really kind to friends and family.
They’re still gangsters.
It is possible he was kind to family and friends. And still a criminal
Unbelievable!
A mother of a dead wannabe thug blaming her son instead of the police, whitey, society at large and anything else someone could conjure up?
I wonder if the democrat party, blm and the local community organizer will be paying this family a visit?
Just to make sure they get their head right and get with the program.
No the Democrats won’t have anything to do with her. She doesn’t blame whitey, the police, the racist system and she says her son brought it on himself. She also keeps an intact family.
“Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied. That leaves only me to blame ‘cause Mama tried.”
Someone will find a way to blame Whitey for this.
"He really wasn't a bad boy, but he put himself in that situation. He put himself in harm's way."
Here is where a return to Christianity would help our country. Everyone is a bad boy (or girl). We all have a sin nature. Can't avoid it. Can't fix it. We are all sinners and we always will be. So, given that we are compelled to make mistakes, we all need to be vigilant about not "putting ourselves in that kind of situation."
The world is full of temptation, and we need to actively avoid it, because there's a good chance that the temptation will overpower us.
The idea that "so-and-so is a good person" is evidence that someone is letting their guard down. That way lies foolishness.
Always avoid "the situation" if at all possible.
Of course.
This woman could teach all those "Movement" mothers being feted at the DNC Circus a thing or two. But hey, what Dem wants to hear from a woman (esp. a black one) who blames her own son for the consequences of his bad decisions and not raysis whites.
I hope she stand by her correct assessment even after Shady Al gets to her.
He never got to try an Alabama Getaway.
Actually he played basketball for his high school and was about to enter the 11th grade.
This joker won’t turn 21 in prison, doing life without parole. Pity. He messed with the bull, he got the horns.
Let us all learn from this.
You should not be so judgmental.
Time for a reread of Thomas Sowell’s “The Bullet Counters” essay.
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