Posted on 07/01/2020 8:37:57 PM PDT by BurgessKoch
You watch the entire video? It sure sounds like he was a good father. Not perfect but a good father.
Sorry. But any parent who has raised offspring who can create CHOP has done a lousy job. Not that this kid was solely responsible for this madness but an entire generation of parents have raised a generation of entitled brats who if they don’t get what they want riot, burn and destroy.
Typical governance, totally incompetent as expected.
Yeah, it’s all fun and games till someone gets hurt. And in life everything after ‘but’’ is bs.
The father thought Lorenzo who was special needs was asleep at home. Then his brother and a friend persuaded Lorenzo to go to the CHOP. Why he wanted to drag his special needs brother there is unknown.
I read that apparently Lorenzo and some Antifa thug got in some kind of pushing taunting episode, likely the white commie taunting the retarded boy.
Then Antifa came back with their John Brown gun club and shot Lorenzo. Communists have always murdered those whom they consider throwaway humans. A small microcosym of the horrible society that the communists desire.
There was no heart breaking plea. There was rather a routine black parent pity party
The man was 19 and made bad choices
You are a gullible sucker for falling for the parental crap
19 years old and special needs is still a child to me.
Kids get out and do things together, they run in groups. Most avoid trouble. In this instance, the CHAZ-CHOP happening was promoted as a block party which Seattle has each year for all neighborhoods that get a permit, a “Summer of Love”, with BLM touted as center stage acts performing as rock stars for the thousands of purple-pink day glow tattooed street urchins and college kids nearby.
I’m less than 3 miles from it along the shoreline in the leafy rich area but travel to it because it has my closest bank branch which has now been closed down going on three months for the pandemic but still has an ATM.
I know the area very well as I get haircuts there. It’s not my favorite area of the City by any means but it’s conveniently close for routine things.
There are tons of young people and by and large they’re good kids although not politically mature, they are seen as prey by socialist agitators but I’d say most of the kids diss the ‘Unite for World Socialism’ memes plastered on poles along the street. Most of the ones I come across are polite and wanting to do the right thing. They work in the markets, Trader Joe’s, assorted shops, trying to pay their rent and utilities, shacked up like sardines in the apartments around the area while trying to get ahead by attending college. It’s a familiar scene in many American cities.
So this young 19-year old gets taken by his peers to the BLM “Summer of Love” not unlike I would step out onto my deck to watch fireworks over the water. It’s an attraction. His loving father is snoozing at home so he happily skips to the nearby CHAZ-CHOP happening for the excitement. And now he’s dead and his father is heartbroken.
For sure, the first killing should have been a warning. Hell, the presence of Antifa and barricades was all my instincts needed to stay away and adapt to doing business elsewhere. But I’m mature and this kid wasn’t.
The Mayor’s political career is over. She is to blame. And I’m not casting blame on her for partisan opportunity or convenience. She failed to protect private property and uphold public safety. In fact, she facilitated the opposite. And now a kid is dead and a family is grieving.
I speculate, with strong intuition and understanding, that this Mayor was communicating with other leftist power players to set a trap for President Trump to create a ‘Kent State’ incident for the world to see and use to condemn the President and his supporters. I believe they wanted as this Mayor described, a “heavy-handed” response from Trump that could be used for melodramatic propaganda purposes. But the President is too smart for them.
I agree with many of the points you make. However this whole situation was headed for trouble the moment CHAZ/CHOP began. Anyone who was an adult could have seen that. I asked at the beginning of this whole mess a few weeks ago if Seattle’s mayor was a Commie and I was told she was.
At that exact moment I knew this would end badly.
Well you’re sharp and most people are not having the ability to obtain and process the information as you have.
If blame must be cast, the channel of the information flow must be examined. This Mayor deliberately distorted the information flow, the Seattle City Council didn’t bother to correct the Mayor’s information distortion, the Governor appeared uninterested in the information flow, the corporate news media and their local news affiliates joined the Mayor in the distortion.
The bottom line is the local population around CHAZ-CHOP were not informed through no fault of their own. And a kid is killed because the information channel was distorted and jammed.
It’s analogous to a military unit walking into an ambush because the enemy jammed their communications.
Ultimately, the media in this country are to blame.
Unfortunately his father had no influence on his choices.
Anyone with eyes and an ounce of common sense could have, SHOULD have seen that when a mob started taking over a neighborhood , erecting barricades, destroying property, bullying and attacking people and the police being chased out it was not going to be good and it would end event worse. And it did.
Block parties happen every year in Seattle in dozens and dozens of neighborhoods with permits. Each block party puts up barricades and closes street traffic.
The BLM event was touted as a block party.
Many people simply didn’t know. Don’t blame them. They’re not stupid, they just don’t spend all their time watching politics and when they do hear something, it’s the Mayor describing the BLM as a protest block party.
The mayor was calling it the “summer of love.” To this young man and his friends, it probably looked like a big party.
At 19, didn’t you ever go somewhere your parents didn’t want you to go? The way I see it, most of us were lucky to make it to 25.
Yeah but the places my parents didn’t want me to going to were places where people weren’t carrying guns, burning , rioting and looting stores. Mostly they didn’t like me going to Grateful Dead concerts.
:-) Well, Grateful Dead concerts had some things your parents wouldn’t have wanted you around. lol
Never was a deadhead... but I did go to other concerts, where sometimes fights broke out. Once a friend was jumped. Another time, a friend was sucker-punched.
Our side has been paying close attention to the riots and looting. The other side is convinced the protests have been peaceful and that the police have been instigating all the trouble. This 19yo was the first to be killed there. Bet some on the Left still don’t know about him.
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