Posted on 12/24/2014 2:25:53 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The day after yet another brazen drive-by shooting left nine people wounded, it was quiet at Arcola Park Tuesday. There was no sign of the disruption and panic that left dozens of people scrambling for cover only a few hours earlier.......
.......And though major crimes in Miami-Dade and around the country are near all-time lows — even shooting deaths — the number of high-profile mass drive-by shootings, especially in the county’s Northern District this year, has been alarming.
In August, two men in a dark SUV pulled up to an apartment complex on the edge of Liberty Square and opened fire into a courtyard where people had gathered. Two men were killed and seven others were injured. A month later, a high school dispute escalated to a mass shooting at a teen nightclub called the The Spot in Liberty City. Fifteen people were shot.
And two weeks ago someone drove past another group of people gathered just outside an Overtown apartment complex, firing into a crowd and injuring five people between the ages of 17 and 54. Police attribute most of the shootings to small-time gang activity and drug disputes.
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Just like Chicago and so many other Democratic Party run hell holes.
Shooting galleries.
Where are the marches?
Holder’s people shot by Obama’s son?
It would seem so, as there is no outrage and marching in the street.
According to Obama, we still have much work to do in the race relations of imaginary people. Unfortunately, the healing can’t begin until the country moves on from this imaginary President."
This drive-by shooting is OBVIOUSLY UNRELATED TO GANG ACTIVITY.
Youman McKenzie, 23, was shot in the shoulder and left thigh about 2:20 a.m. in the 500 block of South Central Park, authorities said.
Witnesses said they saw the man exchange fire with another person, police said. A weapon was recovered at the scene.
McKenzie, of the 7000 block of South Winchester, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:55 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.
The most recent nonfatal shooting occurred about 10:45 p.m. in the Little Village neighborhood on the Southwest Side. Shots were fired by police near Cermak Road and Marshall Boulevard, according to police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro.
A police officer at the scene said an officer watched someone shoot another person, then fired shots at the gunman. No one was struck by police."......
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Well, good to know the media is reporting on whether or not anyone was shot by police.
We are watching a great civilization turn into the Wild West where savages know no moral order. We have a civilization being torn by those who live based upon the gratification of appetites with a relative morality that uses lies to support its principles of anarchy.
Progressives don’t give a rat’s butt about people dying (or all the other crisis issues they nurture and expoit), they only care about dividing people into groups and against each other to increase their power and control over everyone.
the simple fact [is] that some people are better than others—smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace. Some ideas are better than others, some values more enduring, some works of art more universal. Some cultures, though we dare not say it, are more accomplished than others and therefore more worthy of study. Every corner of the human race may have something to contribute. That does not mean that all contributions are equal. . . . It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose. ....
Henry’s quip about the bone in the nose elicited the expected quota of outrage from culture-cultists. But the outrage missed the serious and, ultimately, the deeply humane point of the observation. What Sandall calls romantic primitivism puts a premium on quaintness, which it then embroiders with the rhetoric of authenticity. There are two casualties of this process. One is an intellectual casualty: it becomes increasingly difficult to tell the truth about the achievements and liabilities of other cultures. The other casualty is a moral, social, and political one. Who suffers from the expression of romantic primitivism? Not the Lauren Huttons and Claude Lévi-Strausses of the world. On the contrary, the people who suffer are the objects of the romantic primitive’s compassion, “respect,” and pretended emulation. Sandall asks:
Should American Indians and New Zealand Maoris and Australian Aborigines be urged to preserve their traditional cultures at all costs? Should they be told that assimilation is wrong? And is it wise to leave them entirely to their own devices?
Sandall is right that the answers, respectively, are No, No, and No: “The best chance of a good life for indigenes is the same as for you and me: full fluency and literacy in English, as much math as we can handle, and a job.” .............
Betcha the shooters were white cops. /sarc
"Houston has an African-American population of 23.7 percent. However, as recently as 2012, African-Americans accounted for 48 percent of victims killed by the police. This cannot and must not continue. This case may be an incident involving racial profiling and the use of excessive force.
"I am therefore calling upon the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the killing of Jordan Baker and to take appropriate action, including convening a federal grand jury, to ensure that his civil and constitutional rights are vindicated."
......... The shooting happened in the 5700 block of West Little York near Antoine, where Baker encountered [officer Juventino] Castro.
The officer, who was in uniform and had been on the force for 10 years, was working an extra security job at the location because the strip mall's businesses had experienced a recent string of robberies, according to the Houston Police Department.
Castro's attempt to stop Baker in the parking lot led to a brief struggle and foot chase, an HPD news release said. When Baker stopped running away, he reached into his waistband and charged the officer, police contend. Castro fired his gun once and struck Baker. The officer was not injured in the incident, police said."...
But an interesting study released in February suggests a contributing factor. A team of Harvard researchers found that black boys faced harsher punishment because they're often perceived as older than they actually are.".....
That information doesn't at all explain the preschool discipline gap, because the study's participants were looking at children who were at least a half-decade older.
In January, Attorney General Eric Holder criticized "zero-tolerance" policies that quickly involve the criminal justice system for infractions like truancy and smoking. "A routine school disciplinary infraction should land a student in the principal's office, not in a police precinct," he said.
He called on schools to find other ways to discipline students that didn't remove kids from school for long stretches of time. He urged that school suspensions and expulsions happen only as a last resort."
Glad I moved out of Chicago and no longer work there as of Sept!
traffic and violence...getting into and out of that city was dangerous enough...and the south side...geez...
She knew toddlers acted out. But the rage-filled reaction, triggered when Johnson wouldn't allow the boy to play with a toy, stunned the 22-year-old teacher. Then, time and time again, she saw other children throwing classroom furniture. Bookcases, chairs, tables—all were flung around the room.
Some students bit classmates, leaving teeth marks on hands and cheeks; a few threatened to hurt staff members. Other children, dubbed “runners,” darted out of the building and down barren city blocks, with frantic teachers on their heels. The encounters exhausted Johnson and other teachers, who began to see the children as troublemakers.
But the day care center's owner, Crystal Hardy-Flowers, urged the staff to be patient with the children, who often were like any other preschoolers—dancing to music, playing tea party and clamoring for space on a teacher's lap. The former social worker understood something that her teachers did not. The kids were growing up in Upton/Druid Heights, where backyard police chases are common and sirens wake up kids like unwelcome alarm clocks at night. Almost every day, in some way, the kids were exposed to violence.
“It's not just bad behavior. It is not just defiance,” Hardy-Flowers said. “No, it is deeper than that. People just don't pick up chairs and throw them at you. Children don't just run out of the building.”
Science increasingly shows that Hardy-Flowers is right. Even as shootings, stabbings and murder trials grab the spotlight, violence in Baltimore is exacting another insidious, often invisible, toll — warping the health and development of the city's youngest residents. For every child who is shot, provoking public outrage,..."
Bang bang, bang bang bang, clip clop, bang bang! Clip clop ...
Nuttin’ to see here, Mutter. Just another Amish drive by.
“Not interested.” MSM
Progressives have turned America on its head.
“I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.’ - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“This is profoundly personal to me,” [white NYC Mayor Bill] de Blasio said. “I was at the White House the other day, and the [black] president of the United States turned to me, and he met Dante a few months ago, and he said that Dante reminded him of what he looked like as a teenager. And he said, ‘I know you see this crisis through a very personal lens.’ And I said to him, I did.”
Did Al Stepnfetch go down there?
Pray America is waking
There’s no one to shake down in the hood.
Now if there had been a white “shooter” or a white hispanic “shooter” Al would have checked it out. Otherwise these shootings are just business deals being worked out.
Youman? Blacks do give their kids stupid names. I guess they don’t care if their kids succeed or not.
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