Family of dead robbery suspect speaks(VA)

wavy.com ^ | 9 January, 2012 | Anne McNamara

[AnTiw1]

Her son lost his expectations of life and liberty when he put on a ski mask and threatened the lives and liberty of his victims. HE was NOT the victim. He was a perpetrator.

But if a mother in grief wants to think he was a misunderstood angel who fluttered into the wrong crowd, far be it from me to take her opiate away.

[MrB]

How about “got mixed up with the wrong crowd”?

Notice the perp in question never IS “the wrong crowd”.

[formosa]

My first thought as well.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

”Why would you beat a person with pool sticks when he’s already laying on the floor dead?”

I agree. That is really bad for pool cues. A good one can set you back $30 or more. Hopefully they were just using those cheap generic pine ones.

[Scotsman will be Free]

LOL! True, and a good point.

[Lazamataz]

"The man went outside and came back in with his gun and shot him down," said Davis. "It's like shooting a dog down."

So far, I'm not seeing a problem.

[Red Badger]

Shelia Davis is asking police to investigate the circumstances of the shooting and what happened after her grandson fell to the floor.

He died...................

[BitWielder1]

her grandson got mixed up with the wrong crowd

How come nobody ever admits to *being* the wrong crowd.

[MrB]

No barrel of axe handles sitting around like in the old days.

[traditional1]

"It appears the person interviewed is his grandmother, not the mother"

I'm not surprised that NO FATHER is mentioned.....75%+ of blacks have no "fathers". Isn't that special?

Usually, it's an "ONT" (aka, Aunt) that comes forward for black yewts.

With the mentality/culture/dependence foisted on blacks by "Progressives", ie, live in public housing, don't ever get a job, live on your EBT's, have more babies by unknown fathers and increase the payments to you, open a daycare, for all the black un-identified-father kids, and get even MORE money, etc.

What a culture.

[MaxMax]

Being treated like he can do no wrong was probably what got him killed Gramma.

[1rudeboy]

"Why would you beat a person with pool sticks when he's already laying on the floor dead?"

My guess is that he accidentally moved some of the balls on the table, and there was money on the game.

[Gritty]

They should dig up Lyndon Johnson and beat him with pool sticks too. In the final calculation of a just world, he was an accessory to this crime.

[Joe Boucher]

being judgemental here,
If he really was turning it around he would not have been involved in an armed robbery.
As for the folks smacking him with pool cues after getting shot I can’t blame them. They were afraid and mad and he did it.

[drpix]

"The respons has become stereotypical on freerepublic. "

Blah! Blah! Blah!

From the article you posted:

"Davis says her grandson got mixed up with the wrong crowd." {As if the family of every other thug in that crowd could not say the same thing.}

"Davis says her grandson was in the process of turning his life around." {As if that process could ever include armed robbery.}

When someone writes and someone else posts such stereotypical lies as exculpatory, they have no right to expect any better.

[Paladin2]

"Davis says her grandson was in the process of turning his life around."

Classic. Of course he was.

[EDINVA]

Granny’s response is stereotypical. He was a good boy who just fell in with the wrong crowd, trying to turn his life around, blah blah blah. Any one of us could have written her script.

Yes, granny, every good boy walks into a bar armed and masked during an attempted hold up.

She claims she’s not trying to make excuses, the entire time making excuses. And in the meanwhile has no doubt met with a lawyer to see if the shooter or bar owner has any financial culpability.

This story line is old and trite. I may despise the “Great Society,” but in the nearly half century since it was brought into being, there have been not only horrific consequences in the ‘hood, but also thousands of young black men who walked the straight line, did the right thing, and worked their way out of it despite the odds. It does become a matter of personal choice.

[drpix]

CLARIFICATION:

When someone writes and someone else posts ^{an article with} such stereotypical...

[Georgia Girl 2]

“Davis says her grandson was in the process of turning his life around.”

Can you say detached from reality?

[Bon mots]

What LBJ and the Democrats have done, intentionaly or not, to the black family, has created horrific consequences

They also did it in Johannesburg? Rio? Haiti? Sudan? Nigeria? England? Jamaica? Soweto?