It didn’t take long for JJ to get his puss in front of a camera.
Jackson: ‘Someone knows who did this’
(http://www.southtownstar.com/news/tpshooting/787009,0210jackson.article)
February 10, 2008
By Jim Hook, Staff writer
The Rev. Jesse Jackson renewed his call for an assault weapons ban today and urged the public to help find the man who shot six women inside a Tinley Park clothing store, killing five of them.
“Someone knows who did this,” Jackson said after laying a wreath near a makeshift memorial honoring the victims of the shooting Feb. 2. “Silence is betrayal. If someone knows something about the shooting, you need to come forward.
“It is your moral obligation to let us know. We offer prayers to the grieving,” he said. “We need to find who did this.”
Jackson urged anyone with information to contact local or state police or Operation Push.
“We are working with local law enforcement agencies to solve this horrendous crime,” he said. “As a nation, we need to stop the escalation of gun violence in this country.”
Jackson cited recent shootings in Ohio and Missouri as evidence of increased gun violence as well as easy access to guns.
Flanked by Ronald Holt, whose son, Blair, was shot and killed last year in Chicago, Jackson said more than 30,000 people are killed by gun violence each year across the country.
Tinley Park police said the investigation is continuing. Police distributed a sketch of the shooter Saturday. A physical description of the man was provided by a sixth woman who survived being shot in a back room of the Lane Bryant store. She remains in protective custody.
What does an assault weapons ban have to do with a size 20 pants suit?