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Lesson from the street: Don’t back down (Chicago)
Chicago Tribune ^ | February 21, 2010 | Azam Ahmed

Posted on 02/20/2010 12:26:09 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

Brandon Barnes and Derri Enoch squared off in the center of the street, their faces knotted with anger. Barnes, tall and slender, raised his fists and promised to level his close friend with a shot to the jaw. Enoch dropped his hands and dared him to do it.

The fight, which began as boyish horseplay outside a West Side community center, had turned serious.

A crowd of friends tried unsuccessfully to intervene. The grabbing, choking and slamming continued, neither Barnes nor Enoch willing to let it go. After 15 minutes, the pair settled against a parked car, their heavy breath sending clouds into the icy air.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chicago; streets
Naive liberals, what happened to "World Peace 1.20.09"?
1 posted on 02/20/2010 12:26:09 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: ConservativeStatement
Lesson from the street: Don’t back down”

That's precisely why murder rates amongst black men is the highest in the country.

2 posted on 02/20/2010 12:29:09 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: SmokingJoe

The only good thing for the rest of us is that 90% of the time they are taking it out on each other. I don’t mind if two idiots kill themselves off. I do mind when those idiots start attacking normal decent people.


3 posted on 02/20/2010 12:33:31 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

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4 posted on 02/20/2010 12:42:04 PM PST by Krankor (nO)
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To: ConservativeStatement

They sound miserable, and that’s good, because THAT is the world they built, allllll by themselves.

INSECTS.


5 posted on 02/20/2010 1:29:29 PM PST by TokuMei
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To: Secret Agent Man

Bags of dirty water breaking each other.


6 posted on 02/20/2010 2:18:59 PM PST by henkster (A broken government does not merit full faith and credit.)
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To: SmokingJoe

You’d think that it was 2,000 years ago. Bunch of frigging barbarians.


7 posted on 02/20/2010 2:45:28 PM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Sounds like they’re living by prison rules. Just in anticipation...


8 posted on 02/20/2010 3:59:56 PM PST by Moltke (DOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the Big House - HOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the White House.)
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To: Moltke

“Sounds like they’re living by prison rules”

Yep. It’s their fashion, it’s their attitude, it’s their culture.

It has, unfortunately, become that way because so many of their friends, parents, and family members are or have been in prison.


9 posted on 02/20/2010 4:17:58 PM PST by webstersII
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