Teen-on-Teen Shooting on Downing Street
We received a tip—which we’ve since been able to confirm—that there was a double shooting on Saturday night in the schoolyard at PS 56 in Clinton Hill. Evidently there was some kind of gathering (described by one neighbor as “insanely loud”) that had a number of teenagers at it and that at about 8:45 p.m….
We received a tip—which we’ve since been able to confirm—that there was a double shooting on Saturday night in the schoolyard at PS 56 in Clinton Hill. Evidently there was some kind of gathering (described by one neighbor as “insanely loud”) that had a number of teenagers at it and that at about 8:45 p.m. a boy and girl (ages 14 and 15) were shot by another teen who is still at large; neither victim was killed. Unfortunately, there seems to be a incident like this every year around this time. Any other neighbors hear the goings-on or witness the aftermath?
You know, it could be worse. In Northern Ireland last week an angry mob killed a guy in front of his house over a soccer match.
Who cares what chorosch says. What, how un-New York of you not to live and let live.
Re: The Flea
I think the opening of the Dumbo Flea as well as the new one to start under the Brooklyn Bridge goes to show Brownstoner’s involvement with much more of Brooklyn than just the Ft. Greene/Clinton Hill area.
This blog is an asset to ALL of Brooklyn…not simply Ft. Greene and Clinton Hill.
“Many will assume that the killing of Officer Omar Edwards was the result of a tragic but honest mistake, an accident with no malice or racial bias at work.
That would be a reasonable conclusion – and a dead wrong one.”
No argument there, What.
Ain’t a single instance on record of a Black cop shooting a white UC. Quite a few the other way around tho.
Theodore Dalyrmple of the Manhattan Institute???
Ok That’s it! Thanks guys for the Ammo!!!
The What
Someday this war is gonna end..
The What (Throws a copy of the Bell Curve at infinitejester)
Someday this war is gonna end…
Re: chorosch’s conspiracy theory, if our goal were to turn CH & FG into a brand for our own profit and glory, don’t you think we’d leave out unseemly realities like shootings from the rosy narrative that, by the way, don’t do a lot to boost our home values in the meantime? We’re invested long term in the neighborhood both as a homeowner and business owner and won’t be cowed by people who say that we shouldn’t raise our voice because we’ve only been in the neighborhood a few years. Insane.
MM, I have to respectfully, and rarely, disagree with you on this issue–firearms.
We live in a violent society. Statistically, there are more murders committed with knives in the US than with all weapons combined in some other countries, such as Canada.
Therefore, if tom’w we magically removed every single gun from the country, we’d still have a higher murder rate than less violent countries. Maybe higher, as many would lose the defense aspect of owning a gun and would become victims. And we’d then have other problems.
And just the fact that mandatory sentences for gun possession keep on going up up and away, and yet fail to deter some teens from not only carrying, but using, guns shows that there are deeper issues involved. And we know what they are, but it’s easier to just scream ‘gun control’.
Certainty of capture and punishment is more important to stop kids from carrying guns than long mandatory sentences. I know this from personal experience. But when you go back to the bad old ‘stop and frisk everyone’ days, that brings up a whole ‘nuther set of issues.
But I suppose this is not the forum for a good gun control debate. Hell, we might get the post count up to 800!
One last thing.. A Black Cop was Gunned down by his fellow offers and there was no mention of this story but lets have a heaping dose of Covert Race/Class warfare.
You never read this headline: ‘Black cop shoots white cop’
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2009/05/30/2009-05-30_its_never_black_cop_shoots_a_white_cop.html
Many will assume that the killing of Officer Omar Edwards was the result of a tragic but honest mistake, an accident with no malice or racial bias at work.
That would be a reasonable conclusion – and a dead wrong one.
Hey this story has something to do with our “neighborhood” right???
Montrose Morris is a apologist! Thanks Morris for providing more hated of you…
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
Guns are not the cause, it’s a culture of “criminal life is cool and existentially meaningful” that no one ever addresses.
White people may like to act like thugs for a bit, but then they can go back to their comfortable lives for the most part. The people whose existences are mapped out by a constant criminal lifestyle are by and large minorities. As Theodore Dalyrmple once wrote, no worse fate than being born intelligent and sensitive in a ghetto.