Six people shot dead, nine others wounded, in 24 hour period in Detroit
Here’s one of the incidents, as
reported by the
Detroit Free Press:
In one incident at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, five victims—ages 16 to 19—were shot during a backyard welcome-home party on the 200 block of West Greendale in northeast Detroit. The party was for someone who had been incarcerated in connection with a crime involving assault with intent to murder, police said.
Here’s the rest of the article:
Detroit Police officials are to meet with police union leaders today about strategies to prevent another outbreak of deadly shootings after 15 people were shot and six died during a 24-hour period over the weekend.
Detroit Police spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens would not discuss details of the meeting, but said more information would be released after it is held today.
“We’re discussing deployment strategies,” she said.
Those shot range in age from 14 to 46. At least two of the dead were teenagers.
Between 6 a.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday, there were shootings at nine locations, the Detroit Police Department said. Two of the incidents had multiple victims.
In one incident at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, five victims—ages 16 to 19—were shot during a backyard welcome-home party on the 200 block of West Greendale in northeast Detroit. The party was for someone who had been incarcerated in connection with a crime involving assault with intent to murder, police said.
In another multi-victim shooting at 3:25 a.m. Saturday, two men were killed and one man was critically injured when shots were fired during an altercation while people were gambling in the 4000 block of Harding.
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This simply does not fit with the deliverance of black America that was supposed to result from the election of Obama. And maybe that’s the reason for the suppression of the black aspect of the spreading black flash mobs and wildings over the last year or two.
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August 16
Richard O. writes:
You wrote:
“This simply does not fit with the deliverance of black America that was supposed to result from the election of Obama.”
Heck, forget “supposed to result from the election of Obama.” More like, “supposed to result from the Civil Rights Revolution.”
Instead of the races coming together and blacks taking their rightful place as full citizens eager to make a contribution in every way, we ended up with rampant black criminality, local fiefdoms of black misrule and decay, pathetic made-up names for children, a down-to-the-bone antipathy to “thinking white,” endless excuses for black intellectual failure, a horrific black underclass that is a blight everywhere it spawns, violent black mobs, the subversive black embrace of Islam and Communist politics, and buffoons in the Congressional Black Caucus clamoring for all the poisonous social policies to be cast in concrete.
I mean, a shoot out at a welcome home party for a returning convict? The Onion looks like the Journal of the American Mortuary Assoc. compared to this kind of comedy.
LA replies:
Of course, liberals and mainstream conservatives would reply that these problems are true only of the black underclass, that the black middle class is doing well and that this is testament to the success of the civil rights movement. But this underclass is such a large part of black America, and interpenetrates the black middle class in so many ways, that the division is not as neat as some would like to imagine. Also, the society as a whole continues to be obsessed by the black underclass and sees its problems as a distinctive failure of America that America must fix. Why, then, is it not also seen as a distinctive failure of black America that black America must fix?
Sophia A. writes:
Your correspondent Richard O. gave a pretty inclusive list of black failures. He forgot one thing: the 70 percent illegitimacy rate.
James N. writes:
You said, “Of course, liberals and mainstream conservatives would reply that these problems are true only of the black underclass, that the black middle class is doing well and that this is testament to the success of the civil rights movement.”
It may be that the removal of the “black middle class” from daily contact with the black underclass ( by ending segregation) has made the behavior of the black underclass worse.
That’s just an hypothesis, put out for discussion.
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