Posted on 07/19/2006 6:25:00 PM PDT by Graybeard58
The next time a “spokesman for the community” begins hollering for a greater police presence in crime-ridden neighborhoods, here’s hoping someone asks why he or she had nothing to say in the wake of what happened three nights ago on Sonoma Street in Roxbury.
If you missed it, a rookie Boston cop was in full pursuit of a suspect, whom he believed might be armed, when the chase led them through a yard where a children’s birthday party was in progress.
“We could tell by his radio transmission what he then experienced,” Mike McCarthy, a Boston police spokesman, said. “It was difficult to make out his exact words, other than screaming for help, because while he was on the ground with this guy, partygoers began pelting him with Pepsi cans, sets of keys, anything they could find. Some actually began to kick and punch him.”
But Jarrod Gero, 33, managed to scramble to his feet and resume the chase, eventually subduing Jerome Goffigan, 24.
During the melee, Gero’s cell phone was ripped from the pocket of his shirt, so, after the arrest was made, he returned to retrieve it.
“Everyone played dumb,” McCarthy said. “No one knew what happened to the officer’s phone.”
That was Sunday night, and not one political or pastoral leader in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan has seen fit to acknowledge, much less condemn, the unconscionable behavior of that cowardly mob.
There hasn’t been a single a peep of outrage.
“Here we are, in the peak of summer,” McCarthy noted, “when everyone’s looking for more cops, and these folks had one in their own backyard, but didn’t want him there. They could have assisted the officer, or at least not impeded him, and yet they did neither; in fact, they did everything they could to prevent him from doing his job.”
For the kids looking on, it was a riveting display of warped values, a disgraceful endorsement of a mindset “community leaders” profess to abhor.
“The kids witnessed adults encouraging the bad guy to get away,” McCarthy pointed out. “That was the message the adults gave them, loud and clear: Beat up the police and help the bad guy get away. You’d think they wouldn’t want someone like that running through their children’s party. But nothing’s unbelievable to me anymore.”
It’s a story to remember the next time you hear some headline-hunting, cop-bashing “community leader” rushing to a microphone to rail against “the system.”
Remind him or her about Sonoma Street, and ask if that’s how they think “the system” ought to work?
isolate them. the criminal element will kill each other off as they are now and the sympathizers will end up dead too.
Ask me how much I really care. Not enough to even read about it in the paper.
I wonder what the ethnic background of the cop is....
Sad story. Disgusting, really.
But the cop should have had a buddy call his phone while he was looking for it. The ringing would have given the culprit away.
Escape from Boston.
What kind of behavior do you expect from a bunch of upper-crist, white-bread, Bostonians?
Teddy Roosevelt said, "There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else."
These hyphenated Americans are not Americans.
I'm with you; let the criminals and their kin devour one another in their own 'hoods, just keep them cordoned off so they can't get out without drawing attention.
I don't even know what upper-crist means.
McCarthy, Boston, Irish? What difference does it make?
These hyphonated Americans ain't going away. They're a thorn in the side of the Republic. And the list gets longer every day.
You're kidding, right? What color is the elephant in the room?
Whatever. After getting a ticket last month for having too-dark of windows on my truck I have a hard time feeling sorry for cops.
No, what difference does it make what the cop's "ethnic background" is?
You know don't you that cops didn't write that law.
I was wondering about the ethnic background of the crowd.
Whatever their race you can bet your ass they voted for Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. If they voted.
Ping
Might be of interest to you.
Not from Boston, are you? Don't know anything about Roxbury, I gather?
The odds are it is an ethnic issue. The odds are. Perhaps this is the one in a hundred story where it isn't. But the odds are, it is.
a suspect, really.
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