4th of July shooting in Baltimore

[BaltimoreBayside]

http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2011/07/05/child-shot-man-dead-after-fireworks-celebration/

Why am I not surprised.

dan

 

[navycraig]

I wonder who exactly he is talking about in this statement.

“I say over and over and over, it’s really these maniacs with guns,” said Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld".

I tried to find his e-mail address so I could write and ask him for comments, but it's not listed on the Baltimore.gov site and not on the Baltimore police web site.

 

[smokey]

I wonder who exactly he is talking about in this statement.

“I say over and over and over, it’s really these maniacs with guns,” said Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld".

I tried to find his e-mail address so I could write and ask him for comments, but it's not listed on the Baltimore.gov site and not on the Baltimore police web site.

it's funny he concentrated on the gun when the shooting victim was mildly harmed whereas the stabbing suspect died. Why isn't it "these maniacs with knives"...or better yet...."these maniacs" regardless of the tools they use to commit a crime.

 

[NormH3]

The man sounds like an idiot..an idiot..an idiot.

 

[Half-cocked]

Yep, just like sex assaults are caused by "those maniacs with their penises!"

 

[smokey]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/ma...i-fireworks-violence-20110705,0,5451987.story
according to Ms. rawlings-blake, it's "simply outrageous that ANYONE would bring a weapon into downtown, bring a weapon into a fireworks display..."

I'm anxiously awaiting her order that all police must not bring their service pistols with them into downtown, into a fireworks display because it's simply outrageous.

 

[Bigdtc]

Meh.. Thats a chance you take when you visit B-more...

 

[Hol3shot]

The sad thing is they are touting this as a "shooting" and not what it actually probably was, which was a falling bullet from some idiot shooting in the air. Not that it is better, but it doesn't sound like a typical downtown shooting and should be portrayed as such, not like someone was downtown and shot a 4yr old in the leg.
The media...always trying to sensationalize stuff so they can get their agenda across...

 

[smokey]

The sad thing is they are touting this as a "shooting" and not what it actually probably was, which was a falling bullet from some idiot shooting in the air. Not that it is better, but it doesn't sound like a typical downtown shooting and should be portrayed as such, not like someone was downtown and shot a 4yr old in the leg.
The media...always trying to sensationalize stuff so they can get their agenda across...

that and the big story is the shooting, not the 26 yr old kid that lost his life from the broken bottle to the neck.

 

[ricuser]

The current mayor is Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Politically similar to the former mayor Sheila Dixon, but otherwise a different person.

I'm sorry for the kid - a stray bullet at a fireworks display isn't what a 4-year old needs to remember.

 

[mdalbke]

I wonder who exactly he is talking about in this statement.

“I say over and over and over, it’s really these maniacs with guns,” said Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld".

its a shame that gun had to stab a guy in the neck

oh wait what, guns don't stab people??? well just blame them anyway.

 

[mdalbke]

First hand account as posted on the Baltimore subreddit of Reddit.com
Yeah. I was at McCormick and Shmick.

My girlfriend and I were sitting on the pier next to the guy who got stabbed. Basically, a scrawny guy ran over and said "That n****r just slapped me in the face", at which point four big white dudes got up and ran into the crowd. Five seconds later I look back and they had slit one of the white guys throat. He was bleeding everywhere and collapsed next to us. The cops were called and we got the hell out of there because it was a messed up scene. There were kids and families around man. It was brutal. But yeah, the part that wont be in the news is that there was a definite racial element to the altercation.

Also OP, it sounds like we had the same walk back to Mt Vernon. Total chaos until we got above about Lexington. After what we had just seen, however, we were totally numb to it.

 

[Auckland]

Why am I not surprised. dan[/QU...s if they went a whole year without a murder.

 

[Boondock Saint]

Because its Baltimore. The only thing that would surprise me about Baltimore is if they went a whole year without a murder.

A year? Hell would have long been frozen over at that point. I'd settle for a few days without one.

 

[Huckleberry]

Considering the city held the African American Festival at M&T Stadium parking lots this weekend and some participating groups were calling for a "Chocolate 4th of July"; I'm not surprised that there were not a lot more racial incidents.

 

[Auckland]

A year? Hell would have long been frozen over at that point. I'd settle for a few days without one.

All was quiet the days after 9/11. Its sad what it takes to make people stop.