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.”
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!
Semper Fi, brother
Reading between the lines, it sounds like the father is saying PTSD played a role in the murder.
Dreadful. RIP.
“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.....
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.