Posted on 09/13/2007 12:31:25 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
It first appeared to be an all-too-typical drive-by shooting in San Francisco's troubled Western Addition - distinguished only because it was witnessed by a member of the city's Board of Supervisors.
But police now say the incident was far darker: an extreme case of vigilante vengeance involving a father and his 16-year-old son against a supposed street robber blamed for holding up the youth on the way to school.
The 39-year-old father, after being summoned to the scene by his son, allegedly ran over the suspected robber in the family car and then urged his son to shoot the prone man in the street. Authorities say he did. Somehow, the man survived. Both father and son now face attempted murder charges.
"It's kind of a little bit of an overview of how things are going on out there - the way these kids are running amok," says Inspector Robert McMillan of the police gang task force. "When you do have a father figure involved, and he is encouraging them to do these things, it's pretty sad."
On the morning of Aug. 31, the son of Acie Parnell Green was on foot in the Western Addition, making his way to Civic Center Secondary School. He never got there.
Ladaris Greer, 19, was among a group of men the boy would later tell police robbed him of a gold chain as he walked that morning, McMillan said. The robbery, according to the father's attorney, occurred at Gough and McAllister streets.
According to McMillan, the boy used a cell phone to summon his father, who drove to the area with his wife, armed with weapons, at about 9 a.m.
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Yo whussup y’all. Gimme back dat gold chain or my Dad will run yo a$$ down.
Malt Liquor, breakfast of champions... < /smirk >
Darn, kid, learn to shoot!
Meantime everyone involved in this incident from beginning to end needs to go to jail.
Sho Fizzle !
The most shocking thing in this story is that the boy had a father living with his mother at home.
fo’ shizzle
Perhaps when our criminal injustice system actually begins to dispense justice, actions like this will not be necessary. I hope they get off. I know if I was a juror I would never vote to convict. They should be given a medal. They did us a favor by eliminating a sub-human who would have probably ended up killing an innocent person one day.
when? what makes you think they might get around to it? I mean ever.
Next time, this human speed bump, should use a little more discretion when deciding to rob someone.
It never will. I predict that mass vigilantism is right around the corner and I will welcome it because every time I think of our current criminal friendly court system that protects the criminal and defecates over the innocent every day it makes me want to puke. I could care less about the constitutional rights of criminals!
Just step on the throat—hard.
No “weapons” involved, so you’ll go scot-free.
The saddest thing about this whole mess is the fact the vigilantes will be arrested when they do the job the police will not do.
True dat, yo.
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