In Tallahassee, Florida, every time there is a FAMU (historically black college) home game or a big black celebration, all police leaves are cancelled, and every police vehicle is on the road. When you read articles relating to the inevitable shootings, it’s usually a big party and the shooters were not invited.
Here’s my guess. Anytime there’s a large gathering of blacks the street pharmacy entrepreneurs show up because that’s where their clientele is. One pharmacist sees the other pharmacist and decides that guy is pharmacising on HIS territory. A shootout ensues. Usually, the instigators are not harmed because they are essentially posturing with weapons. But bullets go somewhere when they aren’t specifically aimed. You have to read between the lines to figure out what is going on in reality, because stating it as above makes assumptions about blacks that would be racist if stated by an author.
Where I worked, a promising young black man was shot to death at a black bar on a Saturday night about two AM. I asked his coworkers why, knowing he was in the most murdered demographic, would he be in that place at that time. The answer was along the lines of, “He be a young buck. You got to strut your stuff and be seen. You can’t hide your light under a bushel.” That answers the question why you have promising graduates some with job offers in hand, who get shot at events like the ones described.
Some people claim, there’s a woman to blame..