This a situation where the men in community need to step forward and take control of the neighborhood. If there are bad families, give them 24 hours to leave, after the guilty are indicted.
Boys need men to properly grow and become men themselves.
If there were real men in the community of Englewood, this crime would not have happened.
An old family friend of ours used to tell me a story from back in the 1950s. He was a small, skinny white kid in a mostly-black school in New York City, and a couple of black thugs who had no business even being in the school (they were 15+ and were "students" in his 7th-grade class) used to bully him every day. His father had died at a young age and his mother was doing her best to raise him by herself, and there wasn't much she could do at all. The school administration was no help, either.
It got to the point where he would leave home in the morning to walk to school, but he'd wander around the neighborhood for a while and then walk back home after his mother had left for work. He was locked out of the house, so he'd hang around in his garage all day until school was out.
One day his older brother came home -- unexpectedly -- from the Army on leave. He had a friend with him from the Army . . . the guy was a redneck from Alabama or Mississippi. At first his older brother was mad at him for playing hooky, but when the young kid told him what was happening he was more understanding. The other guy, though, had a rather strange reaction.
"You gawt a couple a n!##ers beatin' ya up at school?" he asked -- almost delighted.
The two older guys grabbed bats from the family's pile of sports equipment in the garage, and the three of them marched over to the school. They walked right down the hallway to the kid's classroom and went in. The teacher got mad and tried to tell them to leave, but the older guys would have none of it. The older brother shoved the teacher across the room and locked him in the supply closet.
"Which are the n!##ers that have been beatin' you up?!" the redneck yelled.
The kid didn't even have time to answer, because the two thugs jumped up out of their seats and tried to climb out the window. The redneck Army dude beat the sh!t out of both of them with the bat he was carrying, and left them lying on the floor all bruised and battered as the three of them walked calmly out of the school building.
Nobody ever saw those two thugs again. And that kid never had a problem for the rest of his life in public school, either.
Please read post #141.
Most young black boys don’t exactly have the best role models. Their mothers, who never marry, take up with any malevolent ex-con scum who comes along and wants to bed them, so mom contributes to the problem and likely has her own financial and substance “issues.” These “men” have no jobs, no money, treat women like sperm deposits, punching bags and ATM machines, including some coal-burning white women who willingly take up with them only to be beaten repeatedly and basically ripped off of everything they have. These men live in the moment and shirk the few responsibilities they have, yet rule dey bitch’s roost like dey be King Farouk, gnome I sayin’? These kids live in neighborhoods and households where conflict resolution always means violence, which is how I know these attackers are black. They don’t go to school routinely, which may not be a bad thing considering how disruptive and bad their behavior in school is, how lousy public schools are in terms of actually teaching a skill like oh, say, reading and arithmetic, and how far left the curriculum is, to the extent there is any curriculum other than Black History Month. So there’s no consistency of positive role model exposure through school, either.
The best thing we can do with them is warehouse them in prisons as soon as possible where they usually can’t harm anyone but their own criminal kind and to be prepared to shoot them on sight when they come through your door or window some dark night. /rant