Another Kid with a Gun
Remember the young honor student and altar boy (hahahaha - SCC) charged with shooting a man at a dice game?
- As punishment for fatally shooting a 26-year-old man during a dice game in November 2005, a Cook County Juvenile Court judge ordered Wednesday that a now 13-year-old boy remain in the Department of Corrections until he is 21 years old.
Gee whiz, a kid with a gun. This time a REAL gun. Kills a man over a dice game. Yup, those damn po-lices sure are over reacting when they shoot a minor child with what appears to be a gun pointed at them.
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
15 Comments:
Amen.
The father of the Cabrini kid stated "I never bought him a BBgun. His mother never bought him a BB-gun." With the great parenting you get from a man with only 33 arrests on his record I don't see how it's possible that his kid was up to no good. I'm sure since his parents didn't get it for him and he is a "A-B" student, he just found it and was trying to turn it over to the nice officers when they shot him.
Who is taking bets the copper on the cover of the Sun-Times will be disciplined?
This is the TRUTH! Why should I second guess some asshole pointing a real or play gun at me in the dark of night. People should know better than to point guns at people. especially the Police!
Harold Bone.. Nice pinch tonight. Great show up of 016 and 017 coppers.
For those that gave Harold shit the other day....he observed a vehicle it hit on a steal. Low and behold 4 F1 occupants. Nice Job Harold and 016
Thanks...
a 1612 resident & 017 copper.
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we don't hear enough about guys like harold bone, eddie may and others who just keep plugging away despite a hierarchy who ignores guys like this who are true leaders and role models for many on this job. continually passed over for the sake of "diversity". might be a good idea for a post.
The father of the Cabrini kid stated "I never bought him a BBgun. His mother never bought him a BB-gun."
8/10/2006 01:15:45 AM
"We bought him a real gun. We always taught him never, ever have a toy gun. We have no idea how or where our intelligent child would would get a toy gun. toy guns should be banned. They are dangerous. Police mistake them for real guns and shoot innocent kids like ours. We demand an investigation into how our honor student was conned into carrying a toy gun, instead of his Glock.
Let us ban all toy guns in the city and prevent any more tragedies.
They probably live on beat and all that fanfare for a hot car? wow did they put him in for a DC?
If he gets disciplined Im sure the Sgt should get disciplined too if, the officer did something unbecoming to CPD. If the officer did and the SGT did nothing about it the SGT get punished too.
any link to the picture you are talking about the p.o. ??
They stated in the article the dead man had thought about going back to school... Yeah... Probably since 3rd grade. lol!
I say promote that po to sgt or dic or whatever he wants for putting up with that loudmouth banger in his face. So what if he had a smug expression on his face...the guy yelling, pointing and spitting on him should have been cuffed and thrown in lock-p for disorderly and threatening a police officer....bet that didn't happen. If it was a cop pointing, yelling, and spitting on mr. citizen you better believe the aldercreeps and every holy reverend would have wanted his job.
There is hope, read!
Clarence Page
Cosby's call for understanding
Published August 9, 2006
WASHINGTON -- Here's a scoop for you, America: Bill Cosby has a hard time getting his message out.
"The media love to choose what they want to use," he said. "I can't go door-to-door to tell everyone what I really mean."
But William H. Cosby Jr., PhD, did manage to get ahold of your humble scribe on my cellphone during my vacation, scoring some rare cool points for me in the process by saying hi to my teenage son.
Cosby is like my 100-year-old grandmother; you never know what to expect. My heart pounded. Was he calling to praise? To complain? To sue?
As it turned out, he was calling to complain, but not about me. He appreciated my recent column about the national debate he ignited with his now-famous speech on the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision.
No, Cosby was calling out of frustration, he said, over failure of other media to report what he has been trying to say. The Washington Post, which first reported the uproar over his 2004 speech, and other media have focused too much, in his view, on his sarcastic language. Too little attention has been given to the problems about which he was speaking: crime, violence, school dropouts, out-of-wedlock births and other self-inflicted plagues among black youths who were left behind by civil rights reforms.
"Our children are trying to tell us something [with their self-destructive behavior] and we're not listening," he said.
I listened. He talked. I took notes. The last straw for Cosby appears to have been Michael Eric Dyson, a University of Pennsylvania humanities professor and a Cosby critic. In a July 21 op-ed essay in the Post, Dyson lashed out at what he calls Cosby's "blame-the-poor tour" for ignoring major political and economic forces that continue to reinforce black poverty--such as low wages, outsourcing, urban disinvestment, unemployment and substandard schools.
"None of these can be overcome by the good behavior of poor blacks," Dyson declared.
But, of course, that statement is wrong, dangerously wrong in the disrespect it pays to the value of good behavior. As generations of successful black families can attest, good behavior won't solve all problems, but it beats drugs, crime, abuse, child neglect and other forms of destructive behavior.
Cosby offered two stellar examples, Jachin Leatherman and Wayne Nesbit, who defied the usual young black male stereotypes by graduating at the top of their class from Ballou Senior High School, which has one of Washington's worst crime, poverty and dropout rates. Having survived distractions that included the shooting death of one of Nesbit's football teammates, the two athletes are headed for College of the Holy Cross this fall.
At a July forum in Washington on the state of black men in America, featuring Cosby, Harvard psychiatrist Alvin Poussaint and other experts, Leatherman and Nesbit were asked how they did it. They praised their fathers and their athletic coaches for "staying on top" of them.
(The forum, sponsored by the Post, Harvard University and the Kaiser Family Foundation, can be seen at Kaiser's Web site, www.kff.org),
"There's the answer right there," Cosby said. "Why won't the media cover that?"
Alas, in newsroom terms, the lads are a heartwarming but play-it-inside-the-news-pages human-interest story. As one cynical mentor told me years ago, "News is what happens when things are not going the way they're supposed to." Want more attention for your honor students? Let them hold up a liquor store.
Some people think Cosby, who has given millions for scholarships and black colleges, has come down too harshly on black parents who shun personal responsibility, blame police for incarcerations and let their children exalt sports and improper dialect over books and proper English.
I suggested in an earlier column that Cosby might not have been harsh enough. For all of the burdens that we African-Americans have to bear from a legacy of historical and institutional racism, we also need to call each other to account for the damage we do to ourselves.
For starters, we could use a lot more fathers like those of the Ballou scholars. Unfortunately, good dads and good moms don't grow on trees, as my own dad used to say about money. If we, as a society, do not do all that we can to help families in crisis and encourage parental responsibility, we will reap the ugly dividends later in our streets.
That's Cosby's message. At least he has what some critics call his "bullying pulpit" to help get his message out--and he's not afraid to use it. ----------
Clarence Page is a member of the Tribune's editorial board. E-mail: cptime@aol.com
-Love LP
HEY "025 COPPER" YOU COULDN'T SHINE BONE'S OR MAY'S SHOES...SO KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELF...IF YOU ARE SO BOLD PLEASE LEAVE YOUR NAME AND MABYE THEY CAN SEND YOU SOME COPIES OF REAL ARRESTS SO YOU CAN LEARN SOMETHING...NITWIT, THEY ARE THE REAL POLICE...ALWAYS WERE AND ALWAYS WILL BE...UNLIKE YOURSELF
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