“White Lives Matter” is probably appropriate here.
An assumption could be made that a care taker or parent didn’t do their job and the toddler and others paid, but that would be very unfair. I’ll wait until the situation is investigated.
Well, at least they shot the guy. So he probably didn’t suffer a lot. That’s better than the way things often happen in Africa. Over there, the driver who kills a pedestrian is likely to be torn apart, limb by limb, at the hands of a mob.
I had to drive within about a block of that neighborhood (on my way to work) for six months a few years ago.
Was petrified the entire time of getting into some sort of accident that would require me to stop.
For just this reason.
In some cities, Jacksonville Florida comes to mind, you don’t stop in certain neighborhoods unless your car is upside down or impaled on a power pole. If you kill someone that runs in front of you well there’s that old saw to the effect that it is better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
30 years ago in Chicago for me, nearly clipped a kid. I knew one thing - there was NO WAY I was going to stop. Spending 10 years in jail still beats the punishment that this guy got. And I’ve heard that there is a degree of sympathy for drivers that scram, providing, of course, that they call in as soon as possible and are not drunk.
sounds like 48th & north or 48th & burleigh....total ZOO for years....I have never understood why cities don’t clean up these violent neighborhoods...they are totally useless sewers of crime, drugs, welfare abuse, violence...whatever. Milwaukee, where I was raised near 34th & Mount Vernon has become a cesspool of filth and depravity.
Life is cheap in Africa.
Or any western urban cesspool that resembles it tribal nature.
The police have to treat this as if a Federal Official was killed and FIND who did this. That person MUST be tried and executed for that.
The 15 year old died from his wounds also
Prayers for the child but it's a good thing he was able to stop the van. There's no telling how many others could have been struck by "it".
More Nuffins of the Dindu tribe?
Years ago a friend of mine worked in downtown Lost Angeles, and had an auto accident in an El Salvadoran neighborhood, adjacent to his office facility.
He waited and waited for a police officer. When one finally arrived there was a growing crowd of locals.
The officer told my friend he was lucky nothing happened, what with him being a white guy in a nice car wearing a tie, etc.
BTW my friend was married to a beautiful Mexican American lady, a CPA and corporate officer in fact.
So in telling the story, there was nothing by way of racism or prejudice—just some raw emotion perhaps some fear.