Posted on 01/06/2008 2:13:20 PM PST by microgood
LIMA, Ohio — Darla Jennings walked through the streets of south Lima last night sobbing as hundreds of people behind her called for justice after the shooting of her daughter, who was killed by police as she held her baby. Tarika Wilson, 26, was shot and her 1-year-old son was wounded when Lima police conducted a drug raid on their home Friday night, prompting members of the black community to organize a candlelight vigil and demand answers from police. "They shot my daughter and her baby," Ms. Jennings said through tears while being consoled by other family members.
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I have personally intervened to keep a woman from being pulled into a car on a deserted street at 2AM, I have also pulled my car in an put my lights on a guy getting curbed in a Burger King parking lot. But if you want to throw a raid on your neighbor, I will drape you in a swatzstikar flag too.
Some folks who live in small towns may think marajuana is no big deal. Wrong.
I live in San Diego larger and more populated than some states. Also shares the border with Tijuana hot bed of drugs.
People here driving under the influence of marajuana have killed kids in other cars and more, I don’t see the same outcry from drug supporters when their kind kill kids.
There are countless crimes each year by druggies, murders, and you name it.
When you live in a large city, it isn’t cute and you see the damage it does big time. I am also a ret. Legal Support Asst. with the County Attys.
Have seen what marajuana folks have done to the lives of their kids.
That’s at least the second time on this thread that you’ve harped on the weed and conveniently omitted any mention of the crack cocaine. A bit of bias showing here, methinks.
They had a warrant to search for drugs and they ultimately found them. Based on the individual involved in the dealing I am not willing to buy the OJ defense or at least act like a liberal and assume that the cops are the ones terrorizing poor members of the African American community.
I am only discussing what was printed in the article. If you have access to other information then let’s have it. Until then don’t bring your anti-cop bias (SWAT thugs??) to the party. It shows you cannot discuss issues without injecting your own crap.
Enjoy the blow my friend. Oh wait, I can’t prove that you are a druggie just because you defended the dealer. You can’t assume that cops murdered anyone either.
Now, if the mother was upstairs holding a baby and the baby got shot and the mother got shot, that suggests a situation much more like Mt. Carmel than Ruby Ridge.
An officer pulling his weapon with his trigger finger inside the guard and simply popping a round as he trips over the dead dog might be the case.
Might not be the guy shooting the dogs that hit the woman and child ~ what a horrible situation.
You'd think that with the householder's criminal record (mother had been in and out of jail) the cops would have known about the children ~ and there ought to be a parole officer involved ~ bet she knew.
Did someone fail to canvas the target?
None of us want cops who can't shoot straight, or who blow off rounds into ceilings into upstairs bedrooms ~ it's not just bad form.
These guys think they are invisible to the rest of us.
Because the cost of treatment is a savings to society. Illicit drug use spurns break ins and lots of other forms of crime. The problem is that this country has always tried to work the supply side of the problem. It is basic economics, supply and demand. When we pay trillions to bring down supply, the price goes up and the crackhead has to hurt more people financially and physically to get what he percieves to need. Work on the demand side with treatment and we will go somewhere. No country at anytime has removed all drug use. But in the long run paying for treatment will be cheaper than the current system.
Umm, actually the cops said they went into the house and when they were done she was unarmed and dead. Good news is she will no longer do drugs. Rehab by muzzle flash......
Better to never need treatment.
Now, is the enforcement being done correctly? Probably not ~ but it could be. The Chinese broke many addictions in the aftermath of the ascendancy of the Commies, and the Japanese were quick to disarm the pro-narcotics arguments after WWII.
I'm sure we could do something similar and much more humanely.
The other day there was an article on the net about how they can design a vaccine to eliminate addiction to cocaine, heroin, and other stuff. Use that stuff and no "treatment" is needed.
Where does it say that in the article? (it doesn’t)
A neighbor who is selling drugs deserves what every US citizen should do and that is a call to the cops and probably worse.
As an American citizen I will obey its laws.
You OTOH sound very UNAmerican in fact. Let’s drape you in yellow.
I good reporter would pursue this claim and see if it is true.
You give me so much fodder, thanks!
I paid out of pocket for my treatment for pot. Forced to by the state, but it came out of my pocket in cash. Don’t feel like I am a hinderance to your tax bracket pal.
Better to not need treatment. A true statement, obvious but true.
The Chinese lined up a lot of people against a wall and shot them. Made a good sized dent in their drug use, but never ended it and is hardly defensible by most people in the USA.
Japanese culture is very disciplined and family oriented. I am glad they did such a good job, but there are more broken families in many American cities than there are in all of post WW2 Japan.
The magical vaccine is such a great idea. I am addicted to a deadly drug called nicotine that I am trying to get rid of as we speak. There are many layers to addiction, social, physical and psycological. If there is a miracle vaccine out there that you can find, feel free to send me a link. Until then, addiction is a human malady.
Oh yeah, the victim is being spun as a saint. No one mentions in the article about the whereabouts of her kids’ father(s), what she’s doing keeping pit bulls in her house with all those kids and why she’s dating a crack head/dealer.
She didn’t deserve to die though and 6 kids now have no Mommy as bad at it as she appeared to be.
The poll? From the Drug Policy Institute? SOROS funded crap?
You can take your poll and get yourself over to DU where they appreciate this stuff.
There was no gun recovered and no cops were shot. If she came out with a weapon, the police would be quick to mention it.
Obviously.
The rest of your post was wild speculation.
Again, my only point here was there is no mention in the article that the person shot to death had a weapon.
"Stay-at-home mother?"
That's rich. I suppose she found child-rearing so spiritually fulfilling she jumped off the Mommy track and gave up a lucrative career.
Two pit bulls are a serious threat to a bowl of dog food.
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