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Atlanta Fox News channel 5 reported on 53 year old Carolyn Jones, a Georgia substitute teacher who was involved in a fight with a student last week. The fight allegedly occurred on the last day of a school at a Stone Mountain high school, while it was being filmed on a cell phone. Was it a set up by the students? Was the teacher justified in defending herself? Should she be fired? What should happen to the student? Do cell phones encourage this kind of behavior? This incident was aired on the Nancy Grace show. High school student engages in a fight with 16 year old student. This fight occurred on the last day of school.
The student supposedly told someone she was going to take the teacher's wig off. The teacher allegedly removed the wig before the throwdown. A teacher student fight video...times have changed. I would not have dreamed of ever getting into a physical fight with a teacher. Both are charged with disorderly conduct.
Twenty-three year old Rebecca Payne, a Northeastern University student was found shot to death in her apartment. She lived in a building, which housed other university students, elderly residents, and families with children. Apartment dwellers reported to police that they heard shots fired, but no one bothered to pick up the phone to call the police. We don’t call the cops anymore when we hear gunshots?
A Boston police spokesperson said it was not a high gun activity neighborhood, but someone who lives in the complex said he did not call the cops, because shots are heard periodically. He just shrugged it off. The maintenance man found her in her apartment. There is always the slim possibility that a phone call may have saved her life. READ MORE... This case has received national coverage, and last night, Fox News channel's Greta Van Susterin featured this crime story on her "On the Record" show.
ABC News reports:
“The New Milford, Conn., native was loyal to the Yankees despite going to college in Boston surrounded by Red Sox fans. She was also true to "her British roots," her parents said, as a fan of an English football club. "On her bedroom wall hangs the poster for the Liverpool Football Club, with its anthem, 'You'll Never Walk Alone.'"
I had to do a double take on this film. It looked like a brawl at a European football game. The men were beaten, stomped, and kicked by police who pursued them in a car chase, after a stop, after reports of a nearby shooting. READ MORE...
Last weekend there were three dozens shootings which left 9 people dead. On Friday, Mayor Richard Daley called on a meeting with police department officials, schools, social service agencies and religious groups for a City Hall summit on the violence. He chastised the gun industry and called for parents and adults to step up their role.
After the meeting he spoke on how to combat violent crime. Sounds like a the govt needs to declare a State of Emergency.
The mayor says:
"I don't know why people think you're going to end something with a lot of police ... end something with a lot of guns, you don't. You have to have a combination of prevention and intervention and yes, yes, enforcement, but they all go hand-in-hand."
Officers are going to start carrying M4 carbines.
According to CBS 4 News:
"Meanwhile, it was announced yesterday that Weis plans to arm and train the city's 13,500 officers with more powerful weapons, including equipping many with M4 carbines to match the firepower of the street gangs they have to face.
Chicago Police SWAT teams are already equipped with M4 carbines, but rank-and-file officers are currently only allowed to carry handguns.
The M4 is a short assault rifle used by the Marine Corps, and it fires more shots in less time than most handguns. The fully automatic version can fire up to 1,000 rounds a minute, although the magazines only hold from 20 to 30 shots." Read More...
"The justice system let me down." ---- Nicole Paultre Bell.
I can't say that I am shocked. I wonder if holy hell is going to break loose. Read More...
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New York Post
I was listening to a local talk show last week and there was a man on by the name of John Rosenthal from an organization called Stop Hand Gun Violence, and I don't remember the exact figure, but he mentioned the fact that at least 85% of the people killed by handguns are African American. Absolutely stunning. So if you are black, watch your back. He talked about the gun industry, particular guns, how guns are marketed, and the government's sort of chummy relationship with the gun industry.
Check out these guns from The Bloomberg Collection. They almost look like fashion accessories, ones you'd pick out to match your outfit or you can have a different color for the day of the week. How fashionable. If you are going to kill, why not do it in style? Just what our impressionable young people need--matching guns and outfits.
According to Serf City, the gun manufacturerseller and marketer of this line, "Wisconsin-based Lauer Custom Weaponry is honoring our hoplophobic mayor with a line of brightly colored paints for each of the 5 boroughs — Manhattan red, Bronx rose, Brooklyn blue, Queens green, and Staten Island orange. They even include a stencil of Mayor Mike’s face for the barrel of the gun."
According to The Coalition To Stop Gun Violence, assault rifles can be purchased at gun tradeshows without background checks. One more interesting point made during the interview was the fact that there used to be more gas stations than gun dealers. Now this fact is only true for five states: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Wyoming. Highly black populated states?
We have the right to bear arms, but arms continue to get into the wrongs hands. What is the problem with this picture and how can we fix it? I know-- guns don't kill. People kill.
If you ever take the time to watch the A & E weekly crime documentary First 48, and you will notice a predominate number of black murder gunshot victims cases, with some hispanics too, and most of the alleged perpetrators are black males, in poor black neighborhoods. Yes, crime occurs everywhere. But much of the black on black gun violent crime is occurring in these places. I don't know what kind of contracts these jursidictions enter into with the cable show for actual filming.
Some people don't like negative statistics, and some quickly dismiss them as conspiracies, inaccuracies, etc., but until I seem evidence to counter them, I will have to take what I see as fact. With this said, follow the jump for the rest of the gun violence stats affecting the black community.
Just listening to the story of the Georgia third graders who plotted to kill their teacher. Reports are they planned to harm her, because she scolded one of them for standing on a chair.
What has happened to American society? How can we change this, and why is the average person numb to this sort of news, until it hits home? We collectively, have an indifferent "not my problem" syndrome which is a major part of the problem. READ MORE...
The NY police shooting trial of Sean Bell is taking place and during a court recess, Essence was able to get an interview with his would be wife and mother of his two children, Jada, 4, and Jordyn, 1. Excerpts from the interview:
Essence.com: From the beginning you’ve always said that you’re not angry at the officers. But have you been able to forgive them for what happened?
Paultre Bell: I don’t think I’ve reached that point yet. Every day I have to look at my children’s faces and know that their father was taken away from them. My daughters have to one day have a Sweet Sixteen and a wedding, and they have no father to be there with them. That’s very hard. And it’s something that should not have happened. It could have, and should have, been avoided. There are still times when I’m at home and in disbelief and think, Not Sean. I still have those moments. READ MORE...
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Nicole Paultre Bell
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