Не могу обойти молчанием два трагических случая, произошедших в Чикаго совсем недавно. Не могу, потому что в моем городе люди продолжают гибнуть от пуль, как в зонах военных конфликтов.
Первый случай в начале месяца - еще одно убийство чернокожего полицейскими, демонстрации, хоть и небольшие по численности, так и продолжаются.
А второй - настолько страшен своей бессмысленностью, что я просто не могу его пересказывать, сейчас скопирую статью. В пятницу в его собственном доме убили 15-летнего подростка - внука конгрессмена Денни Дэвиса...
У кого есть силы читать подробности - под катом.
A 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl were ordered held without bail Sunday after being charged with murder in the shooting death of Javon Wilson, the grandson of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis.
Tariq M. Harris, 16, and Dijae T. Banks, 17, are charged as adults with first-degree murder in an attack that started as a fight over clothes and shoes, police and prosecutors said. The pair were taken into custody Saturday.
Harris, of the 8100 block of South Loomis Boulevard, and Banks, of the 12000 block of South Indiana Avenue, appeared before Cook County Judge James Brown wearing juvenile detention center sweatshirts and with their heads bowed.
Brown ordered both held with no bail in a scathing address.
"The murdering of a young boy over articles of clothing (and) gym shoes demonstrates a total callous disregard over the precious nature of human life," Brown said. "The citizens of this city need to be protected from these defendants."
Javon, 15, was killed at his Englewood home around 7 p.m. Friday, police said. Some authorities spelled the victim's name as Javon.
Javon was at his home in the 5600 block of South Princeton Avenue with an uncle, a family friend, his 16-year-old sister, 14-year-old brother and 8-year-old brother when Harris and Banks arrived and knocked on the back door, according to Assistant State's Attorney Bryan Grissman. The teen's mother had left the home to pick up food.
Javon and his 16-year-old sister went to the door and looked out, recognizing Harris and Banks as friends of the 14-year-old brother, Grissman said. Banks and the 14-year-old had been trading clothes for weeks prior to the shooting. Banks said she wanted to retrieve some shoes she had lent to the 14-year-old in exchange for a pair of pants, according to Grissman.
The 14-year-old brother did not want to return the shoes without first retrieving the pants he had lent to Banks, Grissman said. When the 14-year-old opened the door a crack to talk to Banks, Harris and Banks forced open the door and entered the home, Grissman said. Banks pulled out a handgun and began threatening Javon's sister with it, Grissman said.
Banks then handed the gun to Harris and began to fight with Javon's sister, Grissman said. As this altercation was going on, Harris repeatedly slid the safety mechanism on the gun back and forth, Grissman said. Javon intervened to break up the fight between Banks and his sister.
Banks then punched Javon in the face with a closed fist, and Javon reciprocated by punching Banks, Grissman said. Banks became angry that Harris "was allowing the siblings to treat her this way," Grissman said.
Harris took a step back, raised the gun and fired it once, Grissman said, striking Javon in the neck. As Javon fell to the ground, Harris and Banks fled the home through the back door, Grissman said.
Investigators initially believed the attack began as a home invasion but revised that once they learned the teens had a history with each other.
"This was not random but was egregious and senseless to use a gun over a fight for clothes," police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
Harris and Banks turned themselves in at the Deering District police station in the Bridgeport neighborhood, according to a police report.
At the time of the shooting, Banks was on probation for a robbery conviction. She has worked as a baby-sitter, according to police and prosecutors.
Harris' mother, Marie Harris, 34, defended her son as "a good kid" in a brief Tribune interview Sunday and said the truth about the killing was still untold.
When she met with her son at the police station Saturday evening, she said, he wept at the loss of his friend, Javon, but offered few details about the events. "He just said, 'Momma, I was there. I wish I wasn't.' He was like, 'It wasn't even my shoes.'"
Tariq Harris had stopped attending classes at Curtis Elementary School in the eighth grade, his mother said, but "he was trying to find his way back. He was a young kid, as impressionable as any kid can be. He got in trouble before, but not to this extent. They put it all on him."
Javon, who loved sports and rap music, was a sophomore at Perspectives Charter High School in the South Loop neighborhood.
"He was a typical 15-year-old," Davis said of his grandson. "He liked basketball. If you listened to him he was a basketball star, but he liked basketball and music. All those kinds of things. He was an avid sports fan, he knew all about, you know, the stats of different players."
Davis had just returned to Chicago from Washington, D.C., and was in his office when his son Stacey Wilson, Javon's father, called him with news of the shooting.
He said he might never know if there was anything, such as better education, that could have prevented his grandson's homicide.
"I do know that I grieve for my family," Davis said at a news conference Friday. "I grieve for the young man who pulled the trigger. I grieve for his family, his parents, his friends, some of whom will never see him again."
Davis, a former Chicago alderman and Cook County commissioner, was first elected to the U.S. House in 1996. He was elected to an 11th term earlier this month. His 7th Congressional District covers much of downtown Chicago, the West Side and western Cook County suburbs and parts of the South Side, including the neighborhood where his grandson was killed.
Davis said gun violence is a problem society deals with every day and reflected on how he's attended multiple funerals for other slain teenagers.
"I guess that I always knew that the possibility existed that it could happen close to me," Davis said. "As a matter of fact, I thought it was so unfortunate because Javon had just reached a point, 15, his grades had improved at school. His father had just told me about how proud of him that he was because he was catching on and realizing that all of his life was in front of him."
The family had talked to the teen about staying at home at night. Still, that didn't spare him from violence, Davis said. "Unfortunately, here he was in the house at home, minding his own business, and some intruders would come and snuff his life away."
The boy's father, teary-eyed, stood next to Davis during the news conference. He had just given his son money to get a haircut, and he thought the next time he would talk to him would be about an appropriate haircut to get.
"It's going to take me some time to grieve," Wilson said.
Violence has spiked this year in Chicago to levels not seen since the 1990s, and several people with prominent connections have been killed in addition to Davis' grandson.
In mid-August, Arshell Dennis, a 19-year-old college student and the son of a Chicago police officer, was shot to death in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the Southwest Side. About two weeks later, Nykea Aldridge, 32, a cousin of Chicago Bulls star Dwyane Wade, was gunned down while pushing her baby in a stroller in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood on the South Side.
Ну вот, и, собственно, больше нечего сказать. Конгрессмен Дэвис постоянно привлекал внимание общественности к криминальной обстановке в городе, просил внуков никуда не ходить по вечерам. Они и не ходили...
Первый случай в начале месяца - еще одно убийство чернокожего полицейскими, демонстрации, хоть и небольшие по численности, так и продолжаются.
А второй - настолько страшен своей бессмысленностью, что я просто не могу его пересказывать, сейчас скопирую статью. В пятницу в его собственном доме убили 15-летнего подростка - внука конгрессмена Денни Дэвиса...
У кого есть силы читать подробности - под катом.
A 16-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl were ordered held without bail Sunday after being charged with murder in the shooting death of Javon Wilson, the grandson of U.S. Rep. Danny Davis.
Tariq M. Harris, 16, and Dijae T. Banks, 17, are charged as adults with first-degree murder in an attack that started as a fight over clothes and shoes, police and prosecutors said. The pair were taken into custody Saturday.
Harris, of the 8100 block of South Loomis Boulevard, and Banks, of the 12000 block of South Indiana Avenue, appeared before Cook County Judge James Brown wearing juvenile detention center sweatshirts and with their heads bowed.
Brown ordered both held with no bail in a scathing address.
"The murdering of a young boy over articles of clothing (and) gym shoes demonstrates a total callous disregard over the precious nature of human life," Brown said. "The citizens of this city need to be protected from these defendants."
Javon, 15, was killed at his Englewood home around 7 p.m. Friday, police said. Some authorities spelled the victim's name as Javon.
Javon was at his home in the 5600 block of South Princeton Avenue with an uncle, a family friend, his 16-year-old sister, 14-year-old brother and 8-year-old brother when Harris and Banks arrived and knocked on the back door, according to Assistant State's Attorney Bryan Grissman. The teen's mother had left the home to pick up food.
Javon and his 16-year-old sister went to the door and looked out, recognizing Harris and Banks as friends of the 14-year-old brother, Grissman said. Banks and the 14-year-old had been trading clothes for weeks prior to the shooting. Banks said she wanted to retrieve some shoes she had lent to the 14-year-old in exchange for a pair of pants, according to Grissman.
The 14-year-old brother did not want to return the shoes without first retrieving the pants he had lent to Banks, Grissman said. When the 14-year-old opened the door a crack to talk to Banks, Harris and Banks forced open the door and entered the home, Grissman said. Banks pulled out a handgun and began threatening Javon's sister with it, Grissman said.
Banks then handed the gun to Harris and began to fight with Javon's sister, Grissman said. As this altercation was going on, Harris repeatedly slid the safety mechanism on the gun back and forth, Grissman said. Javon intervened to break up the fight between Banks and his sister.
Banks then punched Javon in the face with a closed fist, and Javon reciprocated by punching Banks, Grissman said. Banks became angry that Harris "was allowing the siblings to treat her this way," Grissman said.
Harris took a step back, raised the gun and fired it once, Grissman said, striking Javon in the neck. As Javon fell to the ground, Harris and Banks fled the home through the back door, Grissman said.
Investigators initially believed the attack began as a home invasion but revised that once they learned the teens had a history with each other.
"This was not random but was egregious and senseless to use a gun over a fight for clothes," police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said.
Harris and Banks turned themselves in at the Deering District police station in the Bridgeport neighborhood, according to a police report.
At the time of the shooting, Banks was on probation for a robbery conviction. She has worked as a baby-sitter, according to police and prosecutors.
Harris' mother, Marie Harris, 34, defended her son as "a good kid" in a brief Tribune interview Sunday and said the truth about the killing was still untold.
When she met with her son at the police station Saturday evening, she said, he wept at the loss of his friend, Javon, but offered few details about the events. "He just said, 'Momma, I was there. I wish I wasn't.' He was like, 'It wasn't even my shoes.'"
Tariq Harris had stopped attending classes at Curtis Elementary School in the eighth grade, his mother said, but "he was trying to find his way back. He was a young kid, as impressionable as any kid can be. He got in trouble before, but not to this extent. They put it all on him."
Javon, who loved sports and rap music, was a sophomore at Perspectives Charter High School in the South Loop neighborhood.
"He was a typical 15-year-old," Davis said of his grandson. "He liked basketball. If you listened to him he was a basketball star, but he liked basketball and music. All those kinds of things. He was an avid sports fan, he knew all about, you know, the stats of different players."
Davis had just returned to Chicago from Washington, D.C., and was in his office when his son Stacey Wilson, Javon's father, called him with news of the shooting.
He said he might never know if there was anything, such as better education, that could have prevented his grandson's homicide.
"I do know that I grieve for my family," Davis said at a news conference Friday. "I grieve for the young man who pulled the trigger. I grieve for his family, his parents, his friends, some of whom will never see him again."
Davis, a former Chicago alderman and Cook County commissioner, was first elected to the U.S. House in 1996. He was elected to an 11th term earlier this month. His 7th Congressional District covers much of downtown Chicago, the West Side and western Cook County suburbs and parts of the South Side, including the neighborhood where his grandson was killed.
Davis said gun violence is a problem society deals with every day and reflected on how he's attended multiple funerals for other slain teenagers.
"I guess that I always knew that the possibility existed that it could happen close to me," Davis said. "As a matter of fact, I thought it was so unfortunate because Javon had just reached a point, 15, his grades had improved at school. His father had just told me about how proud of him that he was because he was catching on and realizing that all of his life was in front of him."
The family had talked to the teen about staying at home at night. Still, that didn't spare him from violence, Davis said. "Unfortunately, here he was in the house at home, minding his own business, and some intruders would come and snuff his life away."
The boy's father, teary-eyed, stood next to Davis during the news conference. He had just given his son money to get a haircut, and he thought the next time he would talk to him would be about an appropriate haircut to get.
"It's going to take me some time to grieve," Wilson said.
Violence has spiked this year in Chicago to levels not seen since the 1990s, and several people with prominent connections have been killed in addition to Davis' grandson.
In mid-August, Arshell Dennis, a 19-year-old college student and the son of a Chicago police officer, was shot to death in the Wrightwood neighborhood on the Southwest Side. About two weeks later, Nykea Aldridge, 32, a cousin of Chicago Bulls star Dwyane Wade, was gunned down while pushing her baby in a stroller in the Parkway Gardens neighborhood on the South Side.
Ну вот, и, собственно, больше нечего сказать. Конгрессмен Дэвис постоянно привлекал внимание общественности к криминальной обстановке в городе, просил внуков никуда не ходить по вечерам. Они и не ходили...
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- 26 Mar 2023, 18:00То, от чего я была в шоке, оно не относится к запрещенному....
- 26 Mar 2023, 16:57Это музей, я про него еще на WP. не писала, напишу скоро!
- 26 Mar 2023, 16:26Тоже добавлю о "чистоте" ленты. Она конечно же должна оставаться пестрой, чтобы картина мира была объемнее. Но жж лучше других платформ позволяет делить на френдов группы для частных бесед.…
- 26 Mar 2023, 14:31Прекрасные картинки, хоть на большом экране посмотреть. А что значит надпись на двери "улица Генриетты"?
- 9 Mar 2023, 04:30Галина, извините, я не злостно, просто совсем беспросветно дела засосали. Образование. — ну вот так и получали, стандартное американское, какое там полагалось в соответствующем штате. То есть вот…
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Вот знаете, когда я про это пишу, для меня это - очень важный issue, и вот этим надо заниматься, а не... ладно, это уже эмоции пошли, но Вы меня поняли. я думаю :))
Хетти, а что делать? Я бы что-то делала, если бы понимала - что.
Вообще, Америка, как ведущая держава, на самом деле, по-моему, стоит на глиняных ногах, и эти ноги - вот это вот все. Отсутствие воспитания, обнищание материальное а за ним и нематериальное. Не знаю даже, что тут может помочь, но боюсь, частные и региональные инициативы погоды не сделают. Только федеральные, государственные вливания в просвещение и социальную поддержку, и огромные, но для этого всем надо придти к консенсусу. Иначе как просвещать, если один просвещают, а другие их отстреливают, как гинекологов, делающих аборты или внуков вот такого конгрессмена, против насилия ратующего в одиночку.
и вообще дикость какая, с этим "достоинством", просто деградация до "понятий" и средневековья.
Для начала наверное виновато вот это мнение что "право защищать себя и свое имущество" значит право на ношение оружия. А потом это оружие попадает невесть кому которые не научились уважать ни его не себя ни кого другого. А не научились потому что живут в среде которая не научила. И нельзя всё вот это сваливать на школы. Школы не могут одни быть ответственны за это. Это вся среда и все люди вокруг и школы тоже. И это не изменится само по себе так вот вдруг. Волшебных решений не бывает.
А дальше это мое ни на чем не обосновонное мнение. Мне кажется что для того чтоб подростки меньше попадали в банды, стреляли и скатывались невесть куда откуда уже не выберешся, надо чтоб им жилось лучше. Чтоб их родителям тоже жилось лучше.
До приезда сюда, я не знала что я социалист :-)
Edited at 2016-11-30 09:37 pm (UTC)
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в самом-самом конце ссылка на посты с моим пересказом. Но лучше ее прочитать. Тогда будет видно, почему "школы решают все". Просто Вы сейчас в это обсуждение немножко "с середины" попали. Хотя выводы правильные :)))