Posted on 03/19/2015 4:23:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On the first day of winter’s thaw, I saw two teenage boys on the roof next door holding guns. I don’t know much about guns, except that they kill and that young black men holding them are likely to be killed. I called my husband, trying to keep panic out of my voice so as not alarm my own children. He looked out the window. “Jesus. Call the police”.
After Michael Brown, John Crawford, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice - especially after Tamir - calling the police didn’t seem like the solution here.
“Don’t you see who it is”? I told him. “Eddie and Aaron”.
The boys’ lower-income apartments squat dwarfed by the shadow of our larger middle-income building. An invisible red line and a bright blue spiked fence separate us. Any of our fourth floor neighbors could see them as well we could. I’ve known both since they were small children, but I could see them through the eyes of a stranger, or through my husband’s first glance: two young African-American men, in hoodies, armed.
We watched them galloping with the guns, skipping over the low walls separating the units, and hiding behind TV satellite dishes. Every so often one boy stopped and picked something off the ground.
“Ah, they’re BB guns,” my husband said. “See? They’re reloading the pellets.”
My husband grew up in a neighborhood of long driveways, of single houses screened by large trees on private land. He still has that suburban instinct of detachment, a wait-and-see attitude. I couldn’t stand the tension of watching. Too much has happened recently. Too much continues to happen. We know how this one unfolds. I kept expecting the wail of police sirens, seeing the scene play out. No call to drop their weapons. Shots. Eddie and Aaron. More dead boys....
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I say she’s lying...never happened.
LOL!
This lady and her husband would probably justify their own rape/murder by Holder’s people as a symptom or “white oppression”.
Talk about self-hate!
This person is dangerous
She should submit. Us white scared panty-waists will not stand up to defend her. Maybe she should get fitted for her burka.
It’s amateur fabrication..the story a precocious 12 year old would come up with!
the invisible red line..OOO OOO how dramatic!!
“Eddie and Aaron?” Yeah, I agree with you.
When I was a kid of about 11, a bike and a bb-gun were regular play equiptment.
Ah...a glimpse inside the mind of a complete fool.
My dad retired from the Marine Corps when I was 5, so I was like the “supply sergeant” of the neighborhood.
I don’t call the police when I see my black neighbor with a gun either.
Its hardly newsworthy.
Why didn't she just call them Wally and Theodore?
She’s making it up...
Back in the day, my friends and I used to wait until dark, and play “Combat” in the ally and back years on our block. It was a lot of fun, a different way of playing tag I suppose.
We used made up guns of wood, or use toy guns.
Nobody would have thought of calling the police on us.
Crime was non-existent. The kids were good kids.
Jump forward 50 years, and now it’s different. Kids break into buildings and steal stuff. We’re not talking abandoned buildings either. Kids are shooting other kids and adults. Racial crimes, very serious ones are committed by children. Heck, adults didn’t do that stuff in the old days, much. Now it’s open season.
Some people read this as the police being different. Yes, well perhaps they are. What with what is going on, they have to be.
We’re talking real guns, real serious crimes, and real officers who are fearful even though they are armed. One mistake and they are dead. One split second’s hesitation, you’re dead.
These boys may not have realized it, but they could have wound up dead.
This woman thinks the police are bad. You can just tell by the presentation what her mindset is.
One of these days she’s going to correct one of these kids, and they’re going to take her to an empty house on the street and thank her for it.
This woman is a complete and utter fool.
She admits these guns may have been something other than what her husband thought they were. None the less, she wanted to go warn the boys.
How does a person this vulnerable even dress themselves and walk upright?
My husband grew up in a neighborhood of long driveways, of single houses screened by large trees on private land.
= white privilege.
Hoplophobe.
Travon and Michael were “massacred”, by their own stupidity. However, that being the case, i would be reluctant to call a cop. I would call their parents if I knew who they were. I don’t want to see anybody’s son killed by some over-zealous cop. Hell, I don’t even want the cops involved. These things have a better outcome if handled by parents. As soon as the cops get involved, all concerned have their lives altered forever, and not in a good way.
My bet is that the story is BULLSHIT!
“these things have a better outcome if handled by parents.”
If she had known Eddie and Aaron for so long, and worried about them, why didn’t SHE he go over there and tell them she was concerned. I would have. “Hey you idiots. I know you’re just having fun, but it’s not the smartest idea to be running around in the projects with what look like real guns. Someone might get the wrong idea. Hey - I got an idea. I’m going to the range this weekend. Ask your moms and I’ll take you and you can shoot some real guns!”
Just a few weeks ago I told some kids that were laying down in the median near an intersection to get up off the ground - a car could come right over that curb. (They did). Not two days later, driving by there, there was glass and skid marks up and over it.
I was a stupid kid once. I was VERY lucky I was never shot (playing night games, throwing small cranapples at cars, snowballs, etc.) or killed in a stupid accident. (”Hey, I’ll go get some gasoline!”
she’s lying or embellishing....you can bet a million dollars that if she saw two white boys, she’d call the cops instantly....white lives don’t matter.....
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