According to today's paper, the suspect was carrying a .40 caliber handgun.
I recently shot a gun of this caliber, and let me tell you it packs some
punch. I'm not surprised by the resident's reaction, and the complaint that
the police didn't have to shoot "this boy". Well, he's 19, so he is a man,
and I don't think veteran officers would shoot a man in cold blood.
Let's go back to the chase and shooting of the boy on 3700 block of Girard
last summer. What was the reaction then? Why did the cops have to shoot that
boy. Why? HE HAD A GUN AND POINTED IT AT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. The parents of
that boy came out and blasted the police, without knowing all the facts.
Turned out that he was running with the bad crowd, and all police accounts
were correct. Once again the community activists come out when a black
person is shot by the police. But why aren't they over here off of Lowry?
Why aren't they telling the black kids to get off the street corners and
clean up the neighborhood they live in? I see more people sitting on the
stoop of their house with beer cans and bottles in the front yard. What's up
with that? I just would like to see these activists facing up to the real
problems on a day to day basis her on the northside.
I've told my father that the only solution to this is to hire a black
police chief, and hire all black cops to run the areas that blacks are
concentrated in. What will be the complaint then? This is another case of
the police saying one thing, and the residents saying another, well I'm
going with the police on this one, just like last summer on Girard.
Stephen Jester
McKinley
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