'Laughing gang' guilty of schoolboy murder

METRO ^ | April 8, 2008

[george76]

There were emotional scenes at the Old Bailey today when five youths were convicted of killing a schoolboy in broad daylight after chasing him and screaming "kill him".

Kodjo Yenga, 16, was left dying in his girlfriend's arms after being stabbed in the heart.

He had been ambushed by about a dozen youngsters, including two girls, who armed themselves with knives, bats and even a bull terrier.

Horrified passers-by tried to help as laughing gang members ran away...

Two or three members of the group caught him and appeared to stab the back of his jacket, before Kodjo managed to slip their grasp and get away, he said.

Kodjo, who was known as Kizzle to his friends, collapsed in the street where his 15-year-old girlfriend found him.

She said: "I ran straight up to Kodjo. He was holding his heart. He was lying and I turned him over.

"I put his head in my lap and I was crying and I said: 'Please don't die, please don't die.'

Kodjo was a bright student at a Roman Catholic school

[george76]

four days earlier, the schoolboy had appeared on a news special programme on MTV news, talking about the threat of knife crime.

His murder is believed to have been an “initiation” for the MDP gang, which posts videos glamorising street violence on YouTube and is known for breeding fighting dogs.

He was the seventh of 27 teenagers to be murdered on the streets of London in 2007.

[george76]

We keep talking about England's out-of-control violent crime. We keep pointing out that the British government said that a drop in gun ownership would result in a drop in violent crime.

Guns didn't kill Yenga, people did.

Murderers are predators. They'll kill simply because they want to, because they think it's fun, because they won't control themselves, because they want to show how powerful they are, or maybe

[Sender]

"Internet messages reveal that there has been a simmering feud between Kodjo’s ‘musical collective’ RFL – Ride 4 Life – and rivals MDP, short for Murder Dem Pussies."

It sounds like a rap war, like Tupac Shakur.

[Responsibility2nd]

He loved music and had appeared on MTV four days earlier to say he thought knife crime was exaggerated.

I guess it's safe to say he was wrong.

Dead wrong.

[magslinger]

Horrified passers-by tried to help as laughing gang members ran away...

They would have been able to help more if they had the tools for the job.

[george76]

While black people are two per cent of the general population, they’re 15 per cent of the prison population but more and more black people appear to be the victims of casual violence.

Two teenagers have been killed with knives in the last four days.

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s1876111.htm

[george76]

Kodjo's friends told yesterday how they believed the 100-strong MDP mob were behind the killing. Childhood pal Kirsty, 15 - who was too scared to give her full name - said: "They want to fight and kill you.

"If you don't want to fight they call you a pussy. If you even look at them the wrong way they'll kill you.

They terrorise the whole area."

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[The KG9 Kid]

Liberals keep talking about how disaffected urban youth in America have been lowered to humanity's primeval instincts by our neglect and unwillingness to address problems and 'right wrongs'. We went over it last month with Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright and ad to listen to liberals insist that he is correct and that the rest of us just don't understand. Just last week on the 40th anniversary of King's death we heard his speeches against racism, 'economic exploitation', and leftover effects of America's institution of slavery. If we can just address these issues with national commitment to radical reform under Obama's leadership, we could finally bring 'change'.

Yeah, well...

Below are the pictures of urban youth in the UK who've recently been killed as a result of gang violence in greater London:

I'm seeing a trend here, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Primitive and violent Hip-Hop tribal culture infecting the old foundation of Western thought and the Age of Reason.

Some liberal needs to explain to me how a nation like the United Kingdom, wholly committed to socialism, anti-racism, weapon control, welfare, and all the other great nincompoop social engineering projects that flash across a liberal's mind haven't kept the UK's own urban youth from slaughtering one another wholesale. Take away the guns, they'll do it with knives. Take away the knives, they'll do it in a mob with fists and feet and snarling dogs. Obviously, liberals are on the verge of proposing dog control.

Could it just be possible that kids simply enjoy being wild-assed gang members because that's where all the fun is? That's where the adoring girls are. That's where the easy money is. That's where the plentiful drugs are. That's where all their mates are.

No amount of social fiddling and fussing, no piles of public largess, no commitment to providing opportunity and change -- even at the earthy individual level -- will change a thing.

You can either simply eliminate these lost causes from society, or continue on with more of the same no matter how ludicrous the proposal and heartfelt the apology on behalf of the evil of others.

[pabianice]

Below are the pictures of urban youth in the UK who've recently been killed as a result of gang violence in greater London:

This is incorrect. They died as the result of 'incompatible life style expression in a multicultural millieau.' You are to report to The Reeducation Center on Monday!

[familyop]

Just makes you want to visit “Jolly, Old England,” eh, folks?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The English will keep screwing around while this escalates, until they lose their cool, and have mass arrests followed with labor camps.

That is the pattern Europeans tend to follow: mess around and “deplore” until a crisis explodes, then overreact.

And yet they condemn the US for acting soon and forcefully to end small problems before they become big ones. The US has found that if it does so, it can slowly escalate its response to an appropriate level of dealing with problems, and keep them from spiraling out of control.

Compare this event to what would traditionally happen in the US (outside of liberal enclaves). The public would be outraged and demand that the government and police put an end to this immediately. The police would quickly round up offenders and put them before judges primed to treat them with appropriate harshness.

Violent gangster children would be tried as adults, and sent to adult prison for decades. Injunctions would be placed against gangs. Gang members who weren’t arrested immediately would be on notice that the slightest infraction would put them away for years. Gang hangouts would be demolished. No more “Mr. Nice Guy”. Any gang member who even showed his affiliation with the gang would be under unsympathetic police control.

The problem would be ended before anyone else died.

[george76]

Knife target: Kodjo Yenga, circled, in a line-up of members on his collective's website

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[george76]

Acting Superintendent John Sutherland, a senior police officer in Hammersmith borough, said he did not believe gang violence was a problem in the area.

He said: "What we have in common with most parts of London is groups of young people that gather together and might take a name to their group.

I don't think there is a gang culture here in the same sense as might be the case in other parts of the country.

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[Charlespg]

Just makes you want to visit “Jolly, Old England,” eh, folks?

You can find bad places and people over here too.

England needs to bring back the death penalty

[Peter Libra]

“Rivers of blood” - anyone?

[B4Ranch]

They took away Christ and replaced him with Allah. That’s where they screwed up. Worse yet, we’re doing it here too!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks g.

[familyop]

"You can find bad places and people over here too."

I agree.

"England needs to bring back the death penalty"

England and the USA need even more to repeal some anti-family laws and bring fatherhood back, IMO. We're morally bankrupt because of romanticism and feminism (vehicles to adultery and cheap labor through family-breaking).

[wastedyears]

Hang them

[caver]

Looks like your typical gang to me.
Collective? Is that one of those funny Brit terms for gang?