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Murder and mayhem as children turn killers in 2015
Birmingham News/AL.com ^ | 12/27/15 | Carol Robinson

Posted on 12/27/2015 1:28:58 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl

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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."

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I've been thinking about this subject a lot as of late. The death of Dequan Westbrook prompted some social media investigation over the past few days and I was amazed at the level of outright blatant criminality within the black community.

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.

1 posted on 12/27/2015 1:28:58 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Bodleian_Girl
Sorry I don't consider any of these children, they may all be somebody's child, but they gave up being children when they took up murder. They should one and all be put down like the vicious animals they are, I'll save my sympathy for those that deserve it.
2 posted on 12/27/2015 1:37:58 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

I refuse to believe poverty, white privilege, poor education or even fatherless homes is to blame for these crime stats.


3 posted on 12/27/2015 1:43:00 PM PST by umgud
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To: Bodleian_Girl

I see they had to add one white kid to look “fair and balanced”.


4 posted on 12/27/2015 1:43:13 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: Bodleian_Girl

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.


5 posted on 12/27/2015 1:43:46 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: Bodleian_Girl

This is why law-abiding Americans must be disarmed.

/s


6 posted on 12/27/2015 1:44:51 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Mastador1

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.


7 posted on 12/27/2015 1:45:09 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: ozzymandus

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.


8 posted on 12/27/2015 1:49:45 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: umgud

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.


9 posted on 12/27/2015 1:51:16 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: txrefugee

Agreed. They use the term gun violence to mask the term, “black violence.”


10 posted on 12/27/2015 1:52:26 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Mastador1
"Sorry I don't consider any of these children, they may all be somebody's child, but they gave up being children when they took up murder."

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?

11 posted on 12/27/2015 1:52:58 PM PST by Baynative (Liberty lost is a high price to pay for the experiment of socialism.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

OMG - check the guy on the top left!


12 posted on 12/27/2015 1:55:46 PM PST by Baynative (Liberty lost is a high price to pay for the experiment of socialism.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl; Chode

Kids raised by hair hatted hooligans.


13 posted on 12/27/2015 1:56:16 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

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.


14 posted on 12/27/2015 1:57:23 PM PST by Old Yeller (Obama is winning the war on terror when you realize he is on the side of the enemy.)
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To: Baynative; Mastador1

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.


15 posted on 12/27/2015 1:59:10 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Bodleian_Girl

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.


16 posted on 12/27/2015 1:59:21 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

I agree that they are not children in any sense of the word.


17 posted on 12/27/2015 2:01:26 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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To: Baynative
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?

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.

18 posted on 12/27/2015 2:03:33 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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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


19 posted on 12/27/2015 2:05:25 PM PST by alloysteel (Do not argue with trolls. That means they win.)
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Thank you for posting this article, Bodleian Girl. Our country needs to wake up to the danger that we are facing.


20 posted on 12/27/2015 2:08:47 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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