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Eight people are shot at Martin Luther King Day event in Florida: Disturbing video shows aftermath with one victim in critical condition - and gunman still on the run
UK Daily Mail ^ | February 17, 2022 | Neirin Gray Desai

Posted on 01/17/2023 6:59:15 AM PST by C19fan

Eight people were shot during a family-friendly MLK day event in Florida on Monday evening, leaving one person critically injured.

Gunfire broke out soon after 5pm triggering a chaotic frenzy that allowed the shooter to escape. They remained on the loose on Monday night and it is not yet known if more than one person fired.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; fbiglowop; florida; fortpierce; hh2; ilousellispark; mlk; shooting; stluciecounty
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To: C19fan
family-friendly MLK day event...

Lots of evidence that these MLK events are anything but family friendly and often end in gunfire.

Same as driving down any given MLK blvd. Seeing that name, as Chris Rock has said means RUN:

Martin Luther King stood for nonviolence,” says comedian Chris Rock. 'Now what’s Martin Luther King? A street. And I don’t give a f*** where you are in America, if you on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there’s some violence going down.

Later, Rock gives advice to anyone who finds themselves lost on an MLK-named street: 'Run! Run! Run!'


21 posted on 01/17/2023 7:25:52 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: Mr. K
Actually, the young black male population would be closer to 3.25% of the overall population, not 5.00%.

Imagine that, 3.25% causing over 50% of the violent crime, but if anyone points that out, they may get in trouble.
22 posted on 01/17/2023 7:25:53 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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To: C19fan

Can I guess or do I have to look?


23 posted on 01/17/2023 7:26:49 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (q11)
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To: bray
Did MLK ever explain why 13% of the population commit over 50% of the violent crime?

Actually, black males between 17-44 are approximately just 2.5% of the population but commit over 50% of the violent crime in America.

24 posted on 01/17/2023 7:28:47 AM PST by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater 2024)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

>Can I guess or do I have to look?

No need


25 posted on 01/17/2023 7:30:17 AM PST by nevadapatriot
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To: thegagline

I’d like to save that statistic. Do you know where it can be found? /source? Thank you


26 posted on 01/17/2023 7:32:06 AM PST by dkGba
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To: Dan in Wichita

add in some young females too

but its not the total 13%


27 posted on 01/17/2023 7:38:41 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: bray

Yes, and correctly.


28 posted on 01/17/2023 7:39:35 AM PST by GingisK
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To: C19fan

I read the rest of the article. No perp description at all.


29 posted on 01/17/2023 7:39:43 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: C19fan

“A man’s gonna shoot up the street when a man wants to shoot up the street. Ain’t nobody gonna tell a man when to shoot up the street or not to shoot up the street.” - Hank ‘Smitty’ Smith.


30 posted on 01/17/2023 7:40:08 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: C19fan

Surprise, surprise, surprise...


31 posted on 01/17/2023 7:56:04 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: EEGator
anything with the MLK label . . . Worst street in every city in America

I do appreciate the way localities warn visitors of the parts of town to avoid.

32 posted on 01/17/2023 8:03:04 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

MLK!…no, stay on the highway!…


33 posted on 01/17/2023 8:05:28 AM PST by EEGator
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To: dragnet2

Last Friday, I was at a place where gunfire just “broke out” at precisely 1000 hrs, and continued all day. Some of the shooters even had extremely dark skin!

Oddly enough, nobody got hurt.

It’s not the guns ... it’s the nut behind the trigger.


34 posted on 01/17/2023 8:11:07 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: C19fan

Family-friendly.


35 posted on 01/17/2023 8:25:24 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: C19fan

They’sseee be just keepin’ it all in the family, bro....nice and friendly like.


36 posted on 01/17/2023 8:26:01 AM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: EEGator
"Worst street in every city in America?…"

Fayetteville Arkansas has a MLK but no Black community. The University gentrified the only Black neighborhood out of exitance. It's mainly the fast-food strip for the University students.

37 posted on 01/17/2023 8:28:03 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: bray
"Did MLK ever explain why 13% of the population commit over 50% of the violent crime?"

Before the Democrats has him killed the violence the the Black community wasn't that bad but it started heading that way right after he was killed.

38 posted on 01/17/2023 8:33:20 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: EEGator

Not in Baltimore.

There are worse. (Where my mother’s loser “cleaning woman” lives even people in Western MD know is bad!)

But yes, MLK at ground level is still pretty bad - or it draws a line thru all the bad.


39 posted on 01/17/2023 8:39:25 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: C19fan

Pretty much anything associated with any black person is associated with race baiting, grifting and violence.

Hence my hesitancy to push celebrating more useful people like Booker Washington, George W. Carver and Benjamin Banneker.


40 posted on 01/17/2023 8:41:03 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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