California Dad Killed Shielding Son From Gunfire

Fox News ^ | 4/7/12 | Newscore

[Raymann]

Family and friends staged a candlelight vigil late Friday for a California dad who died after he used his body to shield his son from gunfire.

Fredrick Martin, 28, pushed his son to the ground after a gunman opened fire on him and his son in Inglewood, Calif., on Tuesday evening, KTLA reported.

He was hit several times in the stomach and chest and later died in a hospital.

[brivette]

oh those amish...

[ClearCase_guy]

I’m guessing that this is another tragic instance of black on black crime. I’m also guessing that this will not dominate the news cycle for a month or two.

[freedumb2003]

>>I’m guessing that this is another tragic instance of black on black crime. I’m also guessing that this will not dominate the news cycle for a month or two.<<

It doesn’t fit the template of Racist White America. It cant even be squeezed into it like the Martin case...

[Signalman]

I live in SOCAL and we call it “Inglewatts”.

[Amberdawn]

Sad. RIP.

[Defiant]

The hero’s last name was “Martin”. Quite the irony.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Blacks appear to be restless. There are shootings and mobbings where blacks are involved one way or the other occurring all over the country.

[fella]

” ...Martin was considered an “upstanding guy, an employed college graduate.”

[butterdezillion]

This report says the son was the only witness to the murder, but in the video this article linked to the reporter spoke to the father’s best friend who was there in the garage with him when the shooting happened. Maybe he was at an angle so he didn’t see the shooter?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Family and friends staged a candlelight vigil late Friday for a California dad who died after he used his body to shield his son from gunfire.

If a man has to die young, there's no worthier or more heroic way to do it. Sympathies for this brave man's family.

[adorno]

I’m guessing that this is another tragic instance of black on black crime.

That sounds racist!

There is no such thing as black on black crime. When blacks commit crimes that involve other blacks, it's because they've been excluded from enjoying the same kind of success that whites and others have enjoyed, and so, they've been victims of the system which favors whites, and they've been disenfranchised from being productive members of society.

Now, if a white commits crimes against whites, then it's because he is rotten and evil and raised badly, and deserves to be put away for life. In the case of a black person committing a similar crime, well, as a victim of society, he deserves pity and sympathy, and retraining in order to rehabilitate or educate him into becoming a productive and law-abiding member of society.

(That's my imitation of the liberal thought process, btw).

[forgotten man]

I would rather walk through Tijuana than through Inglewood or many other parts of L.A. County.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

” ...Martin was considered an “upstanding guy, an employed college graduate.”

F'ing 1%'er !! /s

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Blacks appear to be restless.

Sociologists are searching for the root cause as we type. So far, they are completely stymied and don't have any ideas.

[brivette]

how many black’s have won the nobel prize?

[kanawa]

liberal thought process

[vette6387]

“Blacks appear to be restless. There are shootings and mobbings where blacks are involved one way or the other occurring all over the country.”

Things would get better if we would just lock up “The Reverends,” and all the rest of the Black rabble rousers (including Obama and Holder).

[Clemenza]

Where have you been for the past 45 years or so?

[peggybac]

OMG that little girl is clueless. If she thinks by using “big” words makes her intellectual and aware of the world, she’s quite mistaken.