Five People Shot on Vanderbilt and Greene
The Local has some limited information posted about the Friday night shooting. None of the wounds was life-threatening…
The Local has some limited information posted about the Friday night shooting. None of the wounds was life-threatening…
Donatella, thank you for your posts. Yes, I too am shocked and horrified — and saddened that this shooting gets a few paragraphs in the paper, not front-page coverage like the Arizona shootings: just a bunch of kids, no one was actually killed, none of them were rich, who cares anyway? Economic misery always brings with it an increase in crime, including murder, which is up in NYC as elsewhere. And guns? God forbid that this country should adopt a rational approach to guns. We will, sadly, see more of this in the future, I’m afraid. And it will get harder and harder to be shocked.
My comment above ^^^^^^^ should have been on the other tread we hijacked for the OT, since we never got one today.
Before I said Christian Brothers were an order of monks. They aren’t. They’re brothers. I don’t know why I said monks. They are an Irish group that is known for their pugilistic skills. Well, I think I will do something else now other than nap and complain.
Wow, it’s nice to hear that harsh political rhetoric was not to blame here.
Unless violence is a persistent problem at this school, and from the people I know who attended this school it’s not, I think a heavy police presence is going over board.
“I talked to a neighbor, my friend and high school principal who said it didn’t surprise her one bit and looked into my eyes and asked me just why was I upset.” (donatella)
Good lord. That is disturbing. What the hell?
Thanks Donatella for the details. I agree whole-heartedly.
Here….I just posted this on the “virtual OT”, the other thread over there, about the shooting and my thinking/feelings….
No I am not at work; I was hoping that we would have an OT today because I was feeling pretty bent out of shape about that shooting because a) it happened b) it is one block from me c) I almost was there since I last minute changed my mind about going out d) nobody seems to give much of a crap, including the news media.
I talked to a neighbor, my friend and high school principal who said it didn’t surprise her one bit and looked into my eyes and asked me just why was I upset. I thought that was almost more upsetting than the event, that nobody seems to think much of it, just the way it is these days.
The facts are that some teenagers had a fight after a basketball game held at Bishop Laughlin. One kid supposedly got beat up pretty badly and a retaliatory drive by shooting into a crowd of innocent (?) teenagers spilling out into the street post game resulted in 5 people wounded. Even if you are not the teenagers, or their parents (can you IMAGINE sending your kid to a basketball game at a Catholic highschool to get shot? For nothing. )
So I am thinking, what’s going on here? It is the really sickening issue of gun violence but also what is happening with the grownups here, the authorities — the school supervising these things and the NYPD. If this is a ghetto school why not do what they do in ghetto schools where the level of civilization is so low that no spectators are allowed at games? Why not have a police presence? What about the people in the neighborhood? This was a shooting into a crowd. Some people said well they weren’t shooting to kill, that they were aiming low (all injuries to legs and feet). Well, that’s reassuring. My God.
I was talking to somebody else in the neighborhood, an guy who has owned a building for 20 years who said that this is a safe neighborhood — those were kids from other nighborhoods. Not ours. There’s Cartesian logic for you. Jeez…. Just for the record, there was another drive by shooting in March of last year on Clinton and Greene, one block away, where a young person was shot and a 70 year old man passing by was shot.
I hereby testify to being shocked, frightened, outraged and very very sad. Holy fucking moly.
Doesn’t sound like drugs or girls; more of that stupidly large ego of teenagers, plus guns.