With regards to the killing of Jersey City Police Officer Melvin Santiago, Fox News TV reporter Sean Bergin no longer has a job after editorializing on-air: It’s important to shine a light on this racist mentality that has so contaminated policing and America’s inner-cities. … The underlying cause for all of this, of course, is America’s racist criminal justice system…
Tag: ghetto culture
Wife of Melvin Santiago’s killer wishes husband had killed more cops
Melvin Santiago, a rookie Jersey City cop was killed — ambushed while sill inside his police car — responding to a 4am call for an armed robbery. Sometimes, after a cop is killed, (just between you and me) I think, “man, that cop messed up” (knowing full well that we all mess up some time). Other times I think, “Man,…
Destructive Culture
Najee Thomas, the 14-year-old son of Ronnie Thomas, was shot and killedin Cherry Hill (south Baltimore). You may better know Ronnie Thomas as Skinny Suge, he who 10-years ago created the semi-famous/infamous “Stop Snitching” DVD and is now in federal prison. Now I know it’s not popular in liberal circles to allow people to talk about “culture” — at least…
Ghetto Culture, Hockey Fights, or Stuff White People Like
This may be the best argument for a residency requirement I’ve ever seen. You know what “ghetto” is? When two groups who are oh-so similar — really with everything in common, objectively, and perhaps a bit misunderstood by society — forgot their brotherhood and trade blows with each other because of some perceived slight. Or maybe it’s just in “their”…
Why (some) good people don’t like cops
Because (some) cops enforce non-existent laws and treat them like sh*t. Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about a recent encounter with police on the streets of Chicago: Catercorner to the volunteers of Safe Passage, two cops sat in an SUV, snug and warm. Our video team was shooting the conversation between our host and the kid. One of the cops rolled down…
"It's Torching" — A Traincrash of Speech
There’s a a video on youtube of a guy and his friend (and baby, in babyseat in the back seat) driving toward a fire and then explosion of a train blowing up just outside Baltimore (don’t worry… according to authorities it’s just “toxic” but nothing to worry about). So I’m watching this video thinking, “These guys are likely candidates for…
When Cultures Clash
Thug challenges Mayor Bloomberg to a fight, mano-a-mano. Nice to know the judge released him on his own recognizance since he seems like such a nice chap who will stay out of trouble.
Food Deserts: Quantitative Research at its Sketchiest
The New York Times reports today on a RAND study (behind the Great Damned Elsevier Pay Wall) by Ruopeng An and Roland Sturm about the lack of “food deserts” in poor neighborhoods. Or more precisely about the lack of link between food deserts and obesity. More specifically, it questions the very notion of food deserts. From the Times: There is…
Not only in Baltimore
Despite what some citizens of Baltimore think, kids zooming around on dirt bikes and 4-wheeled ATVs are nota natural rite of spring. But it turns out it’s not just Baltimore. It’s also all the rage in Philadelphia. And police are handcuffed to do anything about it. So it goes on. I’m quoted in this article by Dana DiFilippo.
“We have to be enraged at this point”
So says, again and again, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing. I’m rarely shocked by murders. Nine-month-old shot and killed by a “stray” bullet? 12-year-old girl killed in similar (but separate) circumstances? 6-year-old critically injured after being shot by a 15-year-old with an AK47 in an attempted carjacking? (OK, that last one did make me do a bit of a double take).…