Posted on 06/10/2011 10:15:42 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Weeping, grief-stricken mourners today are pouring into the Harlem home of a vivacious 16-year-old girl gunned down in a senseless bloodbath at a Brooklyn beach where thousands of kids had gathered to enjoy a hot and sunny day off from school.
High schooler Tysha Jones had been frolicking at Brighton Beach and joking and laughing with friends on the boardwalk when she was caught in a senseless hailstorm of bullets fired into the youthful crowd around 5:20 p.m. yesterday.
She died later at Coney Island Hospital.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
The savages here are the editors for showing that pic.
No lie. What a horrible picture. No one wants to see their child dead laid out like that. My God. Do they have no sense of decency ?
For every person angry about the killer, there were about five people angry at the New York Post for printing a picture of the victim.
No mention of the dummying-up of witnesses yesterday, no mention of the way no one will help the cops get to the bottom of this and bring the girls killer to justice. Not a smidgen of anger or outrage about that.
No, the problem is that the NY Post prints a picture. The problem is that there were no undercover cops to mix in unobtrusivly with thousands of near-naked kids.
It seems like millions of human beings are just drifting off into an alternative universe.
And Coney Island used to be such a nice place.
I’m not so sure. I almost think it’s time photos like this get published with the stories. To start to show people what the thug culture in certain demographics is all about.
Sanitized news stories have lost their power to make people understand what “urban” culture is fast becoming.
This harsh reality sucks, but keeping it hidden won’t turn the tide. Certain ethnic communities should be brought face to face with their shame.
No, the pic is a result of the savages.
The victim was not dead at the time as the article indicated she later died at the hospital.
The fact is, the news take lots of images of injured people, who sometimes later die in the hospital, as this victim did. This is nothing new.
It looked like they worked on her then left her there. You don’t see any emergency people in the picture so the viewer is left to assume ?
It’s still not right.
I would be upset if it were my kid. And she was just a kid.
That’s what death looks like. She looks at peace, and it seems like such a waste of a life, which it is. There are gorier pictures printed, and even worse things in the ‘black museums’ they used to show soldiers as part of training to fight against terrorists. I don’t think this ranks as the most exploitative picture the New York Post has ever published, but if it offended her family then they’re owed an apology for compounding their grief.
There is an EMT on the left, walking towards the victim with a back board.
Bottom line with news, if it bleeds it leads.
But as I said, they take images of injured people all the time, every day, every hour.
The family friends that were quoted in the article didn’t seem to have any problem with the picture. Frankly, I don’t think that the family was paying much attention to the newspaper coverage.
She wasn't dead. She died later in the hospital, according to the article.
Thanks, though I had seen that before posting and chosen those words anyway. She was near death at the time it was taken, and it is what death looks like, her dying in front of all those people and the camera.
“...her dying in front of all those people...”
I wonder if any of the gang hangers on, or the gang wanna be’s that were there will have a realization of what it is all about and have a change of heart? Probably not.
LOL!
"Warriors, come out to play-ayyy."
Definitely not.
Like a previous poster noted, that scene takes place in an alternate universe. As for me, I'm out in the country, hunkered down and armed to the teeth. When invaders from that universe invade my space, I'll be ready. Until then, the activities in that universe can only be viewed with curious detachment. These are interesting times.
FRegards,
LH
I have always felt that the many pronouncements we hear of this nature are euphemisms. That's really being too kind, though. They represent abject acquiesence to authority. The implication is that nobody is dead until They say they are. It seems to me that we used to venture closer to the truth with reports that the victim "was later declared dead".
And they mention Brighton Beach too. That also used to be a nice beach, years ago.
God, I lost count of how many nice places around the country from years ago are now unsafe. Very sad. Very sad for this innocent girl who was caught in the middle.
Will we ever be able to get rid of thes youth gangs who cause 90+% of the violence and mayhem in our cities??????
And they mention Brighton Beach too. That also used to be a nice beach, years ago.
God, I lost count of how many nice places around the country from years ago are now unsafe. Very sad. Very sad for this innocent girl who was caught in the middle.
Will we ever be able to get rid of these youth gangs who cause 90+% of the violence and mayhem in our cities??????
Some might. They’re not as different as their monstrous actions or associations indicate and as most of us would like to think. Just, for the shooter(s), it’s not going to likely be in public view, and it’s helped along by doing real time in a penitentiary where they’re forced to think about it. Generally, the hangers on of the shooters would scatter as soon as something had happened. That’s the well-practiced routine. So they wouldn’t have seen her die first hand necessarily.
And from what I’d seen, on Gothamist’s comments I think, the people that were shot were part of a group that had been at the beach just enjoying themselves all day, while the group the bullets came from were about fifty (?) or so who had shown up later in the afternoon, and caused immediate trouble, resulting in this.
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