It's Dead, Jim

The gang-banging-glorifying city sticker is officially dead.

Now the blame game begins:

• Hours earlier, the boy's mother fought back tears as she denied the allegations. Since they became public Tuesday, the boy has suffered anxiety attacks and couldn't sleep last night, according to his mother and their lawyer.
  
  "I am very upset. I feel very upset that something so positive could be so negative," Jessica Loor told reporters crammed inside a classroom at Lawrence Hall Youth Services, where the boy attends school. "I feel there's a lot of haters. They can make anything out of anything."

You know who else can't sleep at night lady? The residents of certain Chicago neighborhoods who have to listen to gunfire all night. The victims suffering post traumatic stresses after being mugged or shot by gang bangers. How about those two little girls who managed to catch a couple of bullets fired their direction by some piece of crap gang bangers that your son probably hung out with and will live with the aches and pains that in previous years were only suffered by wounded soldiers?

We love how the media is giving play to momma and her "tears" while conveniently ignoring the school for troubled youth this individual attends. How about the "forks up, crowns down" pictures we and Shaved posted? Or absentee dad with his guns, drug money and Interpol record? Or the particularly damning Facebook conversations so thoughtfully captured and preserved by a reader?

Darn those police for pointing out all these other things that don't quite fit into the narrative of a poor downtrodden youth just about to turn his life around. He's got a lawyer you know. And the lawyer is pulling out the stops:

• "Now this is a bunch of nonsense being blown way out of proportion," said Horwitz, describing the boy as a "special needs" child who is on the honor roll.

Where's the altar boy reference? Every gang banger playbook says you have to have an altar boy reference. It's the law.