Nice Hagiography

This bit of "reporting" from the Tribune on the weekend carnage:

• The crime scene was so hidden in the alley that it was hardly visible to those passing by on the streets of East Garfield Park. But Friday night, residents of all ages stopped in front of the red tape to pay their respects to the 52-year-old man.
  
  Henry Daniels was a fixture of the 3200 block of West Walnut Street, having lived nearby for decades and been a daily patron of the corner store on Kedzie Avenue. He commanded respect from the neighborhood’s boys and young men, and used it to warn against joining gangs. And he had over a dozen grandchildren with whom he had planned on spending more time this summer.
  
  Around 7:20 p.m., Daniels was gunned down inside the alley just north of that same block of West Walnut. He suffered gunshot wounds in his leg, abdomen and back, and died at Norwegian American Hospital, according to Chicago police. No one has been arrested.
  
  David McCampbell, 58, said he grew up with Daniels and often teamed up with him to keep peace in the neighborhood. They instructed younger residents to solve disputes without violence and to find an honest living. “ A gun can’t solve your problems,’” McCampbell said Daniels would repeat.
  
  “He was our comfort zone,” McCampbell said, adding that without him, “we just got to do what we got to do and make sure the violence doesn’t escalate.”

Preach it sir! What a great guy. Pillar of the community. Everyone should be like him.

Of course, when the doctors at Norwegian we attempting to save his life, they found heroin on him.

Over thirty bags of heroin. In his ass.

So remember, a drug dealer is the "comfort zone" of the community.