Posted on 12/27/2015 1:28:58 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
Jamarlon Edwards is too young to buy beer, but he's charged with murder, capital murder, theft and robbery in a string of carjackings in the Birmingham area.
Aaron Thomas, 17, is charged with capital murder. So are 18-year-old James Reynolds and 19-year-old Dominic Keeth. Ditto 16-year-old Anthony Murray, 18-year-old Harold Mason, 18-year-old Rufus Clyde Jr. and 18-year-old Cameron Green.
It's been that kind of year. An epidemic of children turned killers.
In the Birmingham area in 2015, at least 16 teens were charged with capital murder or murder, including a 15-year-old who is said to have killed three in cold blood and is suspected in a fourth slaying.
A band of teens wrought havoc in a series of home invasions in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa. A 13-year-old is charged in Birmingham with shooting another child.
Drugs, unsupervised lives, too little love at home, the allure of power through violence. Prosecutors, investigators, and officials struggle to explain.
"It seems we see more and more of violent young men who take no thought of the feelings of others," said Bessemer Cutoff Chief Assistant District Attorney Bill Veitch. "These individuals seem to regard others as almost video-game characters that stand between themselves and what they want; be it property, sex, cash, or simply the 'high' of firing a gun and seeing someone go down."
(Excerpt) Read more at al.com ...
They put it out there, all over Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The girls that hook up with these thugs brag about being 100% loyal. The thugs brag about being "the realist."
There's this whole society of American's who cling to this base immorality as a lifestyle. They get their prompts from rap music, and then try and life up to that fake reality and turn it into their real life.
A few days before all this, I heard about a book "Losing My Cool; Love, Literature, and a Black Man's Escape from the Crowd." http://www.amazon.com/Losing-My-Cool-Literature-Escape/dp/0143119621
The guy is a flaming liberal but he wrote this whole book about how his dad, an educated black man, took years of never giving up to try and extricate him from the influence of the streets and rap music. He ended up going to Georgetown and laments the loss of the guys he knew coming up who did almost nothing with their lives.
And I started thinking about what a huge waste Obama is, and how he and Michelle completely wasted their legacy. They could have had so much of an impact on the black community. Reading that article about about how many 18 year olds were arrested for murder. They had an entire 8 years with Obama as president. They live in a majority Democrat city with a black mayor, police chief and majority black city council.
And yet, they still turn out to be the scum of the earth. I mean, is anything coming from the White House about unwed mothers? How it causes poverty? How not having a father predisposes these kids to be lured into criminal activity?
What a wasted opportunity.
#BlackLivesMatter - to everyone except President Obama and the criminals themselves.
I refuse to believe poverty, white privilege, poor education or even fatherless homes is to blame for these crime stats.
I see they had to add one white kid to look “fair and balanced”.
These are the “children” the Democrats refer to when citing numbers of shooting victims in their anti-gun diatribes. These are predators, reared by no one, uncivilized, instruments of Satan to do his evil on earth. We must arm ourselves as long as they run free, inflicting violence on the innocent.
This is why law-abiding Americans must be disarmed.
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I personally don’t consider them children either. The writer of the article may, or she may have been asked to use that word by her lesbian editor.
It was formerly a newspaper but now it’s just a place where sports articles reign and the constant flow of black crimes articles hold the digital enterprise up.
If memory serves, the white kid got in a fight and hit someone with a baseball bat and the person later died. Still a crime, but not the same kind of crime. I that one also happened in a neighboring city/county.
I think it is a question of immorality. But the fatherless home (in my opinion) creates a kid who is looking for an influence and in the Hood, the influence is rap music and gang bangers.
Agreed. They use the term gun violence to mask the term, “black violence.”
Is it relevant that these boys were still in their innocent prepubescent years when Obama, his nasty wife, his racist attorney general and his America hating chief of staff took over in DeeCee?
OMG - check the guy on the top left!
Kids raised by hair hatted hooligans.
Aw heck, the Islamists teach their kids how to behead and handle an AK-47 by the age of 4. So we got that to look forward to.
I think the relevance for me is that Obama & Michelle could have made at attempt to address the ills that are devastating the black community. Instead they encouraged black racism and actively placed a stamp of approval of lawlessness.
They’re not “kids”, except for one who appears to be much younger than the others. Let’s not forget that the Left would like to allow most of these young men the legal right to vote.
I agree that they are not children in any sense of the word.
Truthfully? No, I don't think so, at least not that much, this is far more the fruits of the ongoing programming of the democrat party, jesse, al, the naacp and their lack of familial structure. Still, these people made their own conscious choice to murder people, others have lived and grown up in adverse situations and while not being saints by any means, did not end up murderers.
Guns do not shoot themselves, knives do not stab on their own, bats, bricks and pipes do not bash skull on their own, it takes a person making their own decision to kill.
Where is #BlackLivesMatter while all this is going on? The VICTIMS were all assuredly not taken into consideration while this killing blitz occurred.
Dysfunctionals being trained as a rising tide of feral humanity by other dysfunctionals, who themselves have little acquaintance with civility or domestication.
Feral animals turned vicious are euthanized, as much to protect the remaining feral population that does NOT exhibit viciousness, as to simply keep order in the community.
Bad Man Stack O’ Lee we do not need.
Police officer, how can it be?
You can ‘rest everybody but cruel Stack O’ Lee
That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O’ Lee
Billy de Lyon told Stack O’ Lee, “Please don’t take my life,
I got two little babies, and a darlin’ lovin’ wife”
That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O’ Lee
“What I care about you little babies, your darlin’ lovin’ wife?
You done stole my Stetson hat, I’m bound to take your life”
That bad man, cruel Stack O’ Lee
...with the forty-four
When I spied Billy de Lyon, he was lyin’ down on the floor
That bad man, oh cruel Stack O’ Lee
“Gentleman’s of the jury, what do you think of that?
Stack O’ Lee killed Billy de Lyon about a five-dollar Stetson hat”
That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O’ Lee
And all they gathered, hands way up high,
at twelve o’clock they killed him, they’s all glad to see him die
That bad man, oh, cruel Stack O’ Lee
Thank you for posting this article, Bodleian Girl. Our country needs to wake up to the danger that we are facing.
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