clickThere is only one way to clean the streets.
Posted on 06/02/2009 12:41:51 PM PDT by La Lydia
Crofton, MD -- It's hard to imagine anything Jenny Adkins could have done differently to protect her 14-year-old son, Christopher. She moved to a bucolic corner of Anne Arundel County, indulged his love of football and ice hockey to keep him from roaming suburban malls, and allowed him to wander unsupervised only along a mile-long tree-lined street between her home and that of her ex-husband, a Prince George's County sheriff's deputy.
Five weeks ago, when Christopher mistakenly found himself between two groups of school friends that had started calling themselves gangs, Adkins even swiftly moved her son to a different high school...But in a tranquil neighborhood, on a sunny Saturday afternoon, trouble found him nonetheless.
...down the street from her home, Adkins walked past a group of six or seven teens and fearfully wondered whether they might be part of the groups of youths...Adkins sent a warning in a text message to Christopher, who was riding his bike nearby. He responded "I'm fine..."two of the teens Adkins had spotted walked up to her son and punched him so hard that Christopher fell to the ground...He hit his head in the middle of the street his mother considered his safe zone and later was pronounced dead at Baltimore Washington Medical Center....
Sunday, Anne Arundel County police charged Javel George, 16, and a 14-year-old boy with manslaughter in Christopher's death. George was charged as an adult...Authorities yesterday backed off initial statements over the weekend that the youths "targeted" Christopher...
"We don't think they targeted him. They just came on him in the street, and the incident took place," said Capt. David Waltemeyer, head of criminal investigations for the Anne Arundel police. "They are neighborhood cliques and gangs. These aren't the Bloods and the Crips," he said....
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Prayers for his family
Hate crime, racial motivation
My guess
Bullies don't seem to like it AT ALL if they suddenly have to take a little of what they are dishing out.
“Hate crime, racial motivation
My guess”
Silly; that only applies to white on black crimes.....
If he had been shot, there is no doubt the headline would have proclaimed 'Gun Violence'.
Seeing the Mom on the news this morning was heartbreaking. No word yet if this was racially motivated, but the perp is black and the victim was white, so we’ll never hear about it.
We also have a new problem in Baltimore where roving gangs of 10 to 25 black youths are beating up white tourists around the inner harbor. Again, no one says if it’s racially motivated, but the victims appear to be almost all, if not all, white and the perps appear to be all black.
Sounds like Capt Waltemeyer is trying to ease folks into the idea of lesser charges down the line, and a lesser sentence. Pity Mrs. Adkins’ sentence is permanent, mourning a boy murdered for no reason...
Small towns like this best jump on it hard and fast or they will become the Bloods and Crips. The police best get their acts together, or replace them.
With names like Javel, it can only be good Quaker boys gone bad. < / sarcasm >
Ice hockey? probably a white kid, and not many white kids are named Javel. No race was mentioned (that I noticed) so of course it’s a black-on-white crime.
These aren’t bullies, they’re groups of kids who are “gangs” in the loose sense of a group of kids acting as a group, but not the pure bloods/crips gangs. The popular culture has created a glorified “gangsta” mythology, so the kids all think they’re tough guys and want to look like rap stars. As long as they look up to creeps like 50 Cent, DMX, TI and the other rappers, this is only going to get worse.
White victim, black perp. Certainly not racial. No such thing in that direction.
clickThere is only one way to clean the streets.
Just dishin’ out reperation doncha know.
As having lived in a inner-city, 90% black area, and a small-town in Georgia, I can tell you this: I experienced hundreds of times more racism from blacks than rednecks.
Can't believe this made the news, the ComPost no less!
The boy spent a few hours with childhood friends after a family funeral, was seen by rivals, and now he's dead. Gang violence is coming to a neighborhood near you. When human life means nothing, it's easier to justify harming humans. "It's the culture, stupid."
We'll never hear about it but motivation is clear.
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