It’s NOT a mistake! This is a great place to live, but I thought the same thing. I just saw that rapper M1, or whatever his goofy name is, on 60 Minutes and I’m appalled at this mentality.
One of the PD columnists ALSO had a column today saying she got over 400 calls/emails and only 20 were pro-thug. One of the messages was some black teen telling the columnist to stay out of “black business” or some such crapola.
You must not have lived there long if you don't know the origins of the nickname 'the mistake on the lake'. Cleveland is named for Moses Cleaveland. (Note spelling of surname.) So the original mistake on the lake was the spelling of the name of the city.
The city lived up to its name, however, in the 60s and 70s with a series of bad mayors (see Carl Stokes and Dennis Kucinich.)
My read on this - the PD intended this to be a "look how evil guns are" moment (after all, the PD publishes a list of CCW permit holders on its web site). Instead, public reaction was that the young punk justly reaped what he had been sowing in his short life. The follow-up columns from the PD this week were a retreat from its original, gun-control stance.
That's because homey cain't type.