Posted on 11/24/2015 8:14:43 AM PST by heartwood
He saw a woman being assaulted and he sprang into action.
There is no need to use the amazing power of hindsight to critique his actions.
Gold is a good man who did the right thing.
I quite agree with what Gold did. Indeed, as a Tulane grad, I know what the streets of New Orleans are like in criminal menace. My point simply is that, with hindsight, he might have accomplished his worthy and heroic purpose without getting shot. The approach that I suggest might in the future help someone to act with less danger to themselves.
America Needs To Re-Examine Child Welfare & Protection Laws
Sadly, Good Samaritan Peter Gold is an indirect victim of America's expanding and shameful *National Epidemic of Child Abuse and Neglect,* aka *Poverty*, that for decades has deprived untold numbers of emotionally abused and neglected young developing children from experiencing and enjoying a safe, fairly happy American kid childhood.
Violence and anti-social behaviors like this often occur when emotionally or physically abused and neglected developing young children mature into frustrated, sometimes suicidal (NY Times May 18, 2015 - Rise in Suicide by Black Children Surprises Researchers) teens or adults lacking empathy and compassion, though filled with rage and resentment for being introduced to a life of pain and struggle.
How much longer will America ignore the expanding sub-culture of immature American teen girls and young women of African descent who subject their children to Child Abuse and Neglect, aka Poverty, by building families with too many mouths to feed?
Mouths attached to children who mature into depressed, angry, unpredictable teens and adults resenting their single-mothers and/or irresponsible dads for selfishly introducing them to a life of pain and struggle, yet want to blame everyone except their moms and/or dads for depriving them of the opportunity to experience and enjoy a safe, fairly happy American kid childhood with Safe Streets to play or travel on.
Question:
If Baltimore Mom of The Year Toya Graham had built a smaller family she could more easily provide for, nurture and supervise, would her young teen son be in The Street attempting to cause grave harm to peaceful people attempting to protect Ms. Graham's peaceful neighbors from emotional and physical harm often caused to innocent people by depressed, angry frustrated, sometimes suicidal teens and young adults who are peeved for irresponsibly being introduced to a life of struggle and hardship?
I grew up listening to Motown artists who wrote beautiful, timeless music loving, lamenting, wooing, praising, adoring and respecting women, aka our moms, sisters, grandmas, daughters, aunts and nieces.
For more than thirty years a substantial number of local and nationally popular American rap performance artists have been characterizing the maternal half of our population as less than human *itches and *hores unworthy of respect.
Why?
Speaking At The Eulogy For The Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney, President Barack Obama said:
"Perhaps it causes us to examine what we’re doing to cause some of our children to hate." (Applause.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T_GwYI7MnQ
Is this an important question or is it not worth looking into?
Are we going to address this tough question posed by our president?
Are we going to take real, tangible action - sincerely and honestly working toward ending America's growing and shameful National Epidemic of Child Abuse and Neglect, aka Poverty, that for generations has deprived countless children from experiencing and enjoying a safe, fairly happy American Kid childhood?
Search: Rise in Suicide by Black Children Surprises Researchers By SABRINA TAVERNISE – MAY 18, 2015
Quoting the NYT article, *"The suicide rate among black children has nearly doubled since the early 1990s, surpassing the rate for white children, a new study has found."*
The tough question ALL Americans face is, "Who is responsible for traumatizing, abusing, neglecting, maltreating children to the point where depressed young kids, we're talking elementary school children, believe their lives are not worth living?"
Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke has repeatedly offered sound advice to all Americans, *"Fix the ghetto!"*
I'm with Sheriff Clarke. I believe we also need to re-examine society's child protection and welfare laws.
I am hoping when camera technology proves its worth in protecting police officers, as well as identifying officers who require further training or officers who have no business serving the public in a LE capacity, we will use that same technology to protect children by monitoring the common area of homes in which caregivers have established a track record for failing to properly raise, nurture and/or supervise their children.
Recently I watched a video that saddened me as well as enlightened me when I learned child welfare investigators test the hair of child abuse victims for "ambient" exposure to drugs.
Holy smokes, the numbers were critical. At the least cameras would expose signs of intoxication in homes identified as requiring extra care to prevent children from being emotionally and or physically harmed.
This video depicts horrific examples of men who were victims of childhood abuse and neglect, conditioning a young teen to embrace the criminal, anti-social 'Street Culture' *Baltimore Mom of The Year* failed to protect her teen son from...not to mention representing the fear peaceful people living and WORKING in the community experience knowing depressed, angry, unpredictable teens and young adults need to vent their angers and frustrations for being introduced to a life of pain and struggle by irresponsible, "living wild" single moms and/or dads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3ChOLiJa8k
Another horrific criminal act of Child Abuse & Maltreatment.
"A little girl, catching a cool breeze from an air conditioning unit in the yard, was blindsided by another child about her same age, who had evidently had some practice with fighting fierce. The small victim wasn't alone, as there were plenty of nearby witnesses, who could have protected her but didn't because they were too busy recording the brutal beat down and encouraging it." | Written By Amanda Shea
What I see in this recorded act of criminal child abuse, is adults conditioning children to embrace the cycle of child abuse, child maltreatment and violence passed down from generation to generation by depressed Americans who are content living in the poverty they are primarily responsible for fueling when irresponsibly birthing children from selfishness, instead of the love between two committed adult partners.
https://www.facebook.com/mediatakeout/videos/vb.731743396857610/1037463359618944/
Mirror: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=798_1437634337
The question all concerned, compassionate Americans should seriously be asking our elected, civil, social, community and religious leaders is, what real, substantial changes in our society's attitude and laws need to occur to prevent abuse that often causes young kids to mature into depressed, frustrated, angry teens and adults as a result of experiencing the emotional and/or physical trauma of an abusive childhood?
If we do not take affirmative action to protect children, "the ghetto" will continue to thrive, fueled by poor parenting, resulting with depressed kids maturing into depressed teens and adults who often vent their angers and frustrations on their peaceful neighbors, instead of the person(s) responsible for introducing them to a life of hardship, pain and struggle.
#TakePrideInParenting #EndChildAbuseNeglect #ProtectKidsFromIrresponsibleCaregivers
I would not bet on it. I say that within 5 years he will be back on the streets shooting, robbing, raping, and killing. his lawyer will get the charges reduced down to something like loitering and he will be back on the street with time served.
You are correct.
This guy was very naive.
Happy he will recover.
It’s open hunting season on Whitey, give the savages a wide berth, unless you are armed and ready for a zombie apocalypse.
More dangerous than the Moslems, at least at this point.
Conceived by the horrifically fruitful fertility clinic known as LBJs Great Society.
These ferals literally would not have come into existence save for the destructive powers of government to "create" entitlement nation: savage beasts in human form, never satiated.
Thank you for your perspective and the years you spent developing it.
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