4 shot in assault rifle attack at Desire's Sampson park

nola.com ^ | 7-26-15 | Ken Daley

[dfwgator]

Snitches get stitches.

[Perseverando]

Snitches get stitches and end up in ditches.

[dfwgator]

Snitches get stitches and end up in ditches.

Wearin' skin-tight britches.

(Little Ohio Players reference)

[LouAvul]

The suspect was described as having long dreadlocks ...... the gunman retreated to the car and escaped eastbound on Treasure Street, Goodly said. At least two suspects, including the shooter, were believed to be in the car...."

Obama's sons. Gang initiation by utes just needing space to destroy.

Actually it's surprising anybody reported it.

[smokingfrog]

Snitches get stitches....

.. or worse

[cherry]

is it racist to state that whiteys seem to be better shots than the others?....I mean when the whitey nut jobs shoot, people usually die....just saying....

I'm being "ironic" or "sarcastic" but the others shoot and kill daily in this country and it never makes the national news to the extent that one white nut job creep can make in one incident...

amazing....

then again, maybe we all are racist and we live in a racist country, since nobody seems to really care about what happens in Detroit,Chicago, Baltimore, Norleans etc...

[tumblindice]

Whoopie Goldberg?

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

All of the urban areas which you mentioned plus many more urban areas across the country are controlled by dims.

Would you expect them to admit that their policies have failed? ;-)

If this happening along with the other stories of crimes committed by minorities then there would be an uproar from the dims about ‘The-media-is-racist!’.....or.....’Everyone-is-racist-except-the-poor-minorities!’

Racism or not, people tend to be drawn to their own kind. I happen to think that it is nothing more than human nature.

[Charles Martel]

Oh, yeah. Treasure Street. When I was a child my father owned a corner grocery store on Almonaster Avenue near Treasure Street. It was a decent neighborhood back then.

How long ago was "back then"? I remember this part of the city as a "no-go zone" because of the Desire Housing Projects, part of which survive as the nearby Abundance Square apartments. In the '70s and '80s, the problems caused by that public housing extended well past Almonaster Avenue.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“How long ago was “back then”?”

1940s. He had rented that store shortly after WWII ended. The Desire Street Projects had not yet been built. By my teenage years there was a black movie theater that was built across the Florida Avenue Canal in the Desire Street Projects. There was always trouble at that theater!

In the early 50s he moved the grocery store to Independence and Rocheblave which was one block from the Florida Avenue Projects and about four blocks from the Lone Star Cement Company and Chase Bag Company.

The Florida Avenue Projects were housing only white people at the time. Any problems were rare. In fact, as a child I do not remember there being any violence/gun problems in that neighborhood. I actually had friends who lived in the Florida Avenue Projects. By and large, they were pretty decent people.....simply poor.

I would not go into any of those neighborhoods today in broad daylight with a police escort! ;-)