Posted on 10/30/2018 6:35:55 PM PDT by SMGFan
-- Back-to-back weekends of shootings have left community leaders bewildered and angry over senseless violence they say plagues neighborhoods in the southern part of the city.
The recent spate of violence includes Friday's fatal shooting of Jade Saunders, a 17-year-old Lincoln High School student, and a Sunday morning gunfire that left a 20-year-old woman and 2-year-old boy hospitalized, authorities said.
"I am outraged by the senseless murder of a young queen whose life was just beginning to bloom and that of a 2-year-old could not be protected from gun violence," said Pamela Johnson, the director of the Jersey City Anti-Violence Coalition Movement. "The gun violence that we see on the south side creates a level of trauma that is detrimental to the entire city."
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But they will vote for Menendez etc
Hopeful never saved the life of a child.
Children are ill served by any adult who votes Dem repeatedly while crime rises in Dem urban areas. Does anyone not see the connection?
Oh good, they’re “hopeful” things will get better. Hope isn’t a strategy. Hope is about as useful for controlling crime and violence as a unicorn passing gas.
“I am outraged by the senseless murder of a young queen”
Are we still doing this Wakanda thing?
If the east coast got an enema, the tube would be rammed into northern new jersey.
a young queen?
a queen is a female cat that bears litters.
Isnt there a better word for black young women?
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