Posted on 06/17/2006 11:17:49 AM PDT by LdSentinal
NEW ORLEANS - Five people ranging in age from 16 to 19 were killed in a street shooting early Saturday, the most violent crime reported in this slowly repopulating city since Hurricane Katrina hit last August.
All were believed to have been gunned down while inside a sport utility vehicle that was found rammed against a utility pole in the Central City neighborhood just outside the central business district.
Authorities said they were looking for one or more suspects but did not elaborate.
Capt. John Bryson said police think the shootings were either drug-related or some type of retaliation attack.
"I think the motivation we're looking at is pretty obvious," he said. "Somebody wanted them dead."
Bryson said he could not remember the last time this many people were killed in once incident — before or after Katrina. "I can't remember five," he said.
Four of the victims — a 16-year-old, a 17-year-old and two 19-year-olds — died at the scene. Another 19-year-old, believed to be the brother of the youngest victim, died later at a hospital, police said.
There was no immediate word if any of the victims had been armed. Their identities were not immediately released.
More debit cards needed.
And will the media tell us the races here? Look, the black deaths on other blacks is appalling. When will NO deal with that and will the Black Caucus ever , ever take Cosby's advice??
I think the reason that happens more with New Orleans than other cities, is because New Orleans often shows as the single most violent large city in the country, when it comes to crime rankings. Its murder rate beats out Detroit and Baltimore and DC by a wide margin. New Orleans racked up more murders every month than some other large cities had all year.
Unfortunately, New Orleans is making a strong comeback when it comes to homicide, after a lull in the violence. So, while some parts of New Orleans are quite nice, the worst parts are the worst in the whole country.
And that's frustrating, since the city would be so much improved, if it could just get the third-world homicide rate under control.
I used to teach in the Ninth Ward back in the early Seventies and if you got away from Desire and Florida projects,most of the folks in the Ninth were hard working people working the usual array of menial jobs available to blacks at the time who had very little education.
Even Desire had a lot of great kids coming out of it back then.They had it hard but were determined to break the cycle of"Mr. Welfare and Mr. Food Stamp",as they labeled the meager government checks they lived on.Then the crack monster hit and "it was on from dusk till dawn".I came back to The Bay by the late Seventies but I still keep in touch with a few of my old students.Some are doing way better than the expectations both white society and other blacks had of their future.
Really?
Ever seen the movie "Fargo" ? ( even though Fargo is in ND, not MN, where the story takes place..)
Even Minnesotans laugh at the "yah, yah shure" conversations, the "Olie Olafson" scandinavian accents, etc...
Having grown up in ND, I'm familiar with people thinking we still deal with Indian ( Native American ) uprisings, and herd sheep and cattle for a living, drive tractors instead of cars, you name it..
Further west, ( Montana, Wyoming ) the cowboy mythos comes out even more.. Gritty, Randolph Scott characters, that punctuate sentences with "Ma'am" or "Pardner"...
Stereotypes are much the matter of perspective..
Try being from California, and saying "Dude" even once..
Note the raised eyebrows, the exchange of knowing glances...
Yo, surfer guy..
And..., that is breaking news???
A lot of Mara Salvatrucha, MS-13 are ex military.
I was working at a black man's house over in New Orleans East. I had to watch what I said because he was going on about how integration ended up ruining the black community. Those that worked hard...worked harder to get out of their to get away from the trash. Without the industrious hard working maddle class man the neighborhoods became filled with deadbeats and soon entire neighborhoods became nothing but trash.
I just stood there listening because I'm conditioned that as a white guy anything I say concerning race is most likely racist.
Hopefully, this is the first sign of a drop in the Houston crime rate. Once again, thank you Louisiana for abusing the warm heartedness of Texas and pillaging The Lone Star State. I think we need a fence along the Texas-Louisiana border in case of another hurricane.
I have a friend who just came back from NO. He said he couldn't wait to leave the place. He said it still smelled bad and seemed dangerous. Many of the stores were locked, you had to ring and make an appointment. He'd never go back.
Sounds like 500 vehicles in Oxnard, Ca., or 150,000 vehicles in Los Angeles : )
---"I think the motivation we're looking at is pretty obvious," he said. "Somebody wanted them dead."---
Nothing gets past these guys.
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