Is Lakeland a dump?
Everywhere is a dump now or, at least, in close proximity to no go zones/dumps.
Lakeland used to be a nice place. From the overhead pic it looks like the projects to me. Drug sales going on according to the cops so gang banger disagreement likely.
I reflexively think of a “drive-by” as being something with a distinctively African-American flavor to it. Of course, anyone can drive by and open a window and fire a gun. But, using the Sailer hypothesis about poor marksmanship, this seems to be tilting in the direction of African-American perps. Anyone see any reference to race in the reports on this caper?
I must be naive and sheltered. I've never worked at an event where anyone was shot.
[ a drive-by shooting ]
Amish? Norwegians?
Surely not illegal invaders.
I’ve never lived in Lakeland, but I don’t think it’s a dump, although I’m sure it has some dumpy parts like any other town. It’s a fair-sized town 30 miles or so east of Tampa on I-4 and the home of Publix supermarkets.
>(Police Chief) Taylor said investigators believe the shooting was a targeted attack.
>Taylor described the neighborhood as “challenged”
Screams black gang banger ‘hood, without saying it directly. Convince me otherwise.
Lakeland has some very nice areas. This area is the slums. Probably gang/drug related.
No doubt the shooters did this to protest the Tyre Nichols beating. Actually, a different article mentions that “felony’ quantities of marijuana were found hidden at the scene. Sounds like this was a gang shooting up their rivals’ open-air dope market. Shortly before the shooting, the school bus had unloaded a mass of “children” (age bracket unclear). The “journalist” of course milked that for drama, even though, thankfully, no children were injured. A cynic might ponder whether the shooters expected their targets to be conveniently assembled in expectation of custom.
Lakeland Police say there is nothing for the public to worry about since it was a targeted massacre — except, er... the likely reprisals.
Suddenly we seem to have a lot of “mass” shootings now that the demonrat and rino fascists are pushing for anti Constitution
gun laws
White supremacists dood it. Can’t be a gang shooting, because we want it to be white supremacists.
Was it an “event” or a bunch gang bangers milling around on the corner?
I hope to go...
I spent a year in Lakeland about 37 years ago when it was a pleasant, quiet and sleepy little city. But from what I hear it has grown bigly since then, and is not all that pleasant any more. Parts of Florida are getting way too crowded.