Posted on 11/26/2020 5:11:52 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
Khaleaf Sistrunk talked to police about the people who were killing his family and friends. And so he had been marked for death.
In 2018, he told police what he knew about the drive-by killing of his older brother. A year later, he testified as an eyewitness at the trial of the teenager who shot his friend to death as they shopped on South Street on Easter Sunday.
For that, he was branded a “snitch.” And people started shooting at him. Eight times in the last two years, his family said. Mostly in the streets by his South Philadelphia home. In October, a gunman fired at his FedEx delivery truck in Queen Village, missing him, but seriously injuring a coworker.
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Couldn’t the police have offered this witness a Safe House or change of address?
What cash-starved inner city PD’s need is a state-funded witness protection program. The ability to relocate witnesses to other locales would likely increase the degree of cooperation from eyewitnesses in high-crime areas and greatly improve the homicide investigation closure rate.
[Couldn’t the police have offered this witness a Safe House or change of address?]
Would that offer have to come from police or city leaders? And is the person obligated or does he have a choice?
Frustrating article, never identifying who “they” are. Not even speculation.
After the first couple of times someone took a potshot at me, I think I would have gotten the hell out of Dodge.
I doubt Khaleaf had monetary resources to that.
I think that in many of these democrat crime riddled cities the mayors are getting payoffs from the Mexican cartels so they look the other way. They want the drugs to keep flowing so that they can keep their payoffs. This is what happens in Mexico and I believe that the United States is just a mirror image of Mexico.
Take payoffs from cartels—> drugs keep coming in—> politicians keep looking the other way and accepting their bribes—> drugs being crime and violence—>crime and violence drive businesses and jobs out of the city—>youths cannot find jobs so they turn to crime—>democrats say “I feel your pain”, vote for us we will fix your problems—>everything remains the same.
But we can almost certainly thank LBJ for creating the Great Society, with all its fallout.
They relocated his family after his work truck was shot at, injuring a co-worker.
Philly PD is not cash starved; they’re a small military force.
“What cash-starved inner city PD’s need is a state-funded witness protection program.”
Not no...but HELL NO!
Couldn’t the police go after the criminal gang responsible for the shootings? Or, are they paid off by the Drug Cartels to have hands off? The FBI, if they are viable, should investigate.
Good questions, both of them.
Don’t talk to me about “systemic racism” when the only system at work in these crime-ridden areas is tribal rule.
“we can almost certainly thank LBJ for creating the Great Society”
I don’t think even LBJ saw this coming. He’s a scumbag of course, but I think he merely wanted blacks to think that Democrats were their liberators.
Securing black American votes was mandatory for Democrats. That party was going to implode had they not exploited race for votes. They do the same thing with Hispanics, but they’re not getting that 90% - 10% split like they do with blacks.
I suspect those communist finks killed MLK and Malcolm X just to insure that blacks remain on the Rat plantation. Had either of those men “won”, I think the black vote would have been more of a 50/50 split these days. Dems cannot win with those numbers.
I don’t think LBJ’s plan involved letting inner cities decay to the point where gangs run them. He doesn’t strike me as someone that looked that far ahead. I think the neo-Communists saw the inner cities eroding long after his Presidency and helped fuel the collapse. Anything to help collapse the United States is fair game in their sick, evil world. The pinko plan goes far beyond LBJ’s multi-trillion dollar disaster.
Why do you not think that?
LBJ and altruism never met during the man’s lifetime.
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