Posted on 04/09/2020 6:15:06 AM PDT by Bonemaker
CHICAGO — Family members say a former Marine who served two tours in Afghanistan was killed in a Chicago subway tunnel Tuesday after he was pushed onto the tracks and struck by a Red Line train.
Al Balde and his daughter came to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office Wednesday to identify the body of 27-year-old Mamadou Balde, who was killed Tuesday.
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Ezekiel Emanuel: “Did he have a runny nose?”
Nuke the city from orbit, Take out Baltimore and Philadelphia too
Joking aside, however, the best answer for these cities is to follow the advice of Benjamin Franklin
I am for doing good to the poor,
but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor,
is not making them easy in poverty,
but leading or driving them out of it.
I observed...
that the more public provisions were made for the poor,
the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer.
And, on the contrary, the less was done for them,
the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”
It has been said before by Middle East War veterans that violence in ChiRac is worse.
I have frequently wondered if any study has been made on the per-capita deaths between deployed military in combat zones and their equivalents in ‘normal’ life. I know what my guess is but that is all that it is, a guess.
Still, my respects and prayers for this deceased and his family and friends!
RIP, Marine.
Semper Fi, brother
I always hate to see young marines die like this because they’ve been through a lot and deserve better.
I hope they catch the punk or punks that killed him.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like the father is saying PTSD played a role in the murder.
Semper Fi, my Man. Guard the Streets well.
My Son-in-Law is an Army vet who did tours of duty in Iraq and Djibouti. He suffers from PTSD as well as neurological damage related to mefloquine (Lariam).
Dreadful. RIP.
One of my favorite quote of his, paraphrased “There has to be discomft in poverty”.
He’s absolutely right. Not many would get off their asses if they are provided food, housing, some spending money and all the free time in the world.
It’s human nature 101.
“he was thrown into the path of a moving train at the Jackson stop downtown “while he was walking away” from a group of men Tuesday”
I have to say, from riding the “El” during the epidemic, most of the people on the train are homeless guys now, but there are groups of teenage thugs who have no school and nowhere to go who are just riding the trains causing trouble. The other day I had an elderly woman come and stand next to me despite the social distancing stuff because she was clearly afraid of the teens running from car to car yelling at each other.
There’s only one CTA employee on the trains now and he is all the way at the front of the train. He has cameras to see what is going on, but he has to drive and open/close the doors at each stop so the kids know he isn’t going to do anything as long as they stay near the back of the train.
8 years ago one of my friends was pushed off a train platform in Sunnyside Queens (part of New York city) and was killed. The woman who did it was schizophrenic, was known to be a danger by her own family who couldn’t get any help in having her committed. Her own brother turned her in to the cops after the murder. She afterwards was sent to prison for 24 years. Here it is, wow still on the internet.....
That’s a tough one. Lot’s of crazy sick bastards out there.
Indeed it comes with any big city living.
Why is the subway still open in Chicago? How crowded was it that they can’t find the creeps who did this? Condolences.
I moved out a month later and I grew up there. That city gets worse and worse every year, the left runs everything now which is why no surprise NY now has more people infected with Coronavirus than Spain, Italy, France, Germany even China. ENTIRE countries have less infected than a US state and that is absolutely 100% because NY has open border/ sanctuary state policies, Bill DeBlasio last year declaring to the world NY will provide them with free health insurance, Kirsten Gillibrand and AOC saying NY will protect them from ICE, Andrew Cuomo giving them drivers licenses, and they dare blame Trump?
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