Posted on 06/27/2018 5:28:48 AM PDT by rellimpank
David Edwards had no beef with the guy who killed him.
On March 1, 2017, Jordan Sharlow allegedly fired several bullets into the 31-year-old father of three at an east Madison gas station, reportedly confusing him with Riccardo Simms, the man he intended to kill.
Simms was gunned down five months later.
The murders of Edwards and Simms contributed to a grim milestone for Madison: 12 homicides in a single year, counting one in the town of Madison, a soon-to-be-annexed pocket on the citys south side. Thats the most on record. Nine of those homicides were by gunfire, again a record, surpassing the six gun homicides in 2016.
It would be easy to write off Edwards death to random violence, to say it could have happened to anyone. But there was a big factor that increased Edwards chances of falling victim to gunfire: He was a black man.
Of the 15 people killed by gunfire in a two-year spike starting in 2016, nine were black men. Thats 60 percent of the gun deaths in a city where blacks comprise just 7 percent of the population.
(Excerpt) Read more at host.madison.com ...
Police don’t like conceal carry for the same reason stadiums don’t want you to bring in food and drinks.
‘Would be like Canada or Finland without that curse.’
I keep having to say it, but what did importers of Stone Age savages into this country, for purposes of doing hard labor in hot temperatures, all the while keeping them as chattel and denying them the means of assimilation, expect the outcome would be when this uncivilized group was released into the public at large...?
“I keep having to say it, but what did importers of Stone Age savages into this country, for purposes of doing hard labor in hot temperatures, all the while keeping them as chattel and denying them the means of assimilation, expect the outcome would be when this uncivilized group was released into the public at large...?”
Probably told each other “what could go wrong?”
Could these be culturally or drug related? Or is the fault of white men, after all their company’s make these guns that discriminate against blacks. You know guns are sentient beings who discriminate by race.
Every month you have a Lakeland Florida death toll in Chicago, and never a sound from the media about the Democrat plantation owners.
They could care less.
No, it is impossible to care less for black lives than the Democrat party.
YES! Not men, but males. Young “men” are few and far between anymore.
I read the article, and nowhere did it say the truth: BLACKS COMMIT 8.5 TIMES MORE CRIME than Whites, according to the population numbers. BLACKS are killing THE BLACKS!!!!! Not Whitey!!!!!
California separates out Hispanic homicide stats. I once did the math, and if you eliminate black and brown killers, white Americans homicide rate is about the same as Europe’s.
—check out the pie chart in about the middle—Chicago stats but applicable in all of our urban paradises—
The interarcial violence problem is BOB not WOB.
ElbowIdiot would have been better off seriously writing a piece on increased black-on-black crime......
—yes-it would have been more realistic of he had stated that the Milwaukee situation has manifested itself in Madison—
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