"The players are the problem"
Oh, I'm sorry, I thought it was an editorial on basketball.
Back to the agenda-pushing.
"Hyde Park teen is charged with shooting boy, 7, at play near home" by Jeannie M. Nuss, Globe Correspondent and Milton Valencia, Globe Staff | July 8, 2008
A Hyde Park teenager has been charged with last week's shooting that hospitalized a 7-year-old playing kickball with his friends near his Roxbury home, in what police called another incident of gang violence with no regard for the neighborhood.
Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis called the shooting, in which police believe Penha and a rival gang member were exchanging gunfire, the type of indiscriminate violence that has rocked the city's neighborhoods in recent weeks.
Davis said that such crimes warrant sentences of life in prison because of the blatant disregard for the public, and he vowed to introduce legislation providing for stiffer penalties.
"The bottom line is he lit this neighborhood up with wanton disregard for anyone who was in the area," Davis said. "If somebody picks up a firearm in a neighborhood and sprays, they should have life in prison."
Unless he is a COP, right, asshole?! Un-fucking-real!!!!
Also see: Boston Cops Killed Celtic Fan
The June 30 shooting, in Roxbury's Mission Hill neighborhood, was the first in a week of violence that included the killing of a mother of two in Mattapan. Two other people were killed, and five were injured in four shootings on the night of the Fourth of July.
Also, a homeless man was savagely beaten in front of Faneuil Hall Marketplace over the holiday weekend. Two weeks earlier, an infant was shot while in her father's arms in what police called a gang shooting in Mattapan.
Yeah, WTF: Drunk Killed in Downtown Boston and Other Unsolved Crimes
I'm waiting for them to solve one.
And wait until you see how they "solved" this shooting:
Initially, police arrested Kenny Francois, 18, of Hyde Park, who was in the car with Penha. He was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm. The firearm has not been recovered, police said. Police are searching for the man on the bicycle.
Davis yesterday said that Penha is a known player in the street violence that has rocked Boston and that police will continue to pursue other known gang members as the summer and the potential for more violence continues.
"There's no question that he was involved in a gang and that this was a shooting that resulted from gang activity," Davis said. "We are holding a hard line on anybody who is involved in gang activity in the city. They will not be able to act the way they have in the past."--MORE--"
Translation: We just PICKED SOMEONE UP and TAGGED HIM WITH IT -- otherwise, how would we justify our existence?!?
So they FRAME a KID just to have the case "solved?"
Did I ever get a police-state whiff, too!
Welcome to AmeriKan Justice, world!!!!
If they want to take the guns away, they can START with the PO-LICE!!!
"Police say trooper's son pointed gun at neighbor" by Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff | July 8, 2008
A State Police lieutenant was reassigned to desk duty and had his service weapon confiscated pending an investigation into reports that his 12-year-old son pointed the unloaded weapon at a neighborhood child and pulled the trigger.
Sandwich Police Chief Michael Miller said that Bolduc's son brought his father's unloaded weapon to a neighbor's house. Miller said the boy carried the weapon under his belt, pulled it out, and pulled the trigger to show it was real, but it did not fire. The gun was aimed at a 5-year-old girl. The children called police.
"All we know is that there is a group of kids at the house, and then this young man went over with a gun," Miller said.
Bolduc's son, whose name was not released, later showed an investigating officer an unlocked bureau where he said the gun was stored, according to Miller.
Miller said the incident was particularly unnerving because the weapon, a semiautomatic handgun, had the potential to have a bullet in its chamber even without a magazine attached.
Bolduc's son was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and unlawful possession of a large-capacity firearm.
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All done at 12, 'eh, kiddo, what with that CRIMINAL RECORD and ALL!!
Maybe you could join the military then, huh?
