Michael Nutter, a former Philadelphia mayor, who is black, said that society would not be so complacent if whites were dying from gun violence at the same rate as blacks.That whole "gangbanger" thing might not be exactly as you imagined it to be...
Mr. Nutter, now an urban policy professor at Columbia University, spoke out repeatedly about the disparity during his eight years as Philadelphia’s mayor — and was accused of casting African-Americans in a bad light. “Some people got upset,” he said. “I said, ‘I’ll stop talking about it when you stop killing each other.’”
Investigators describe fluid, sometimes tiny bands of teenagers and young adults bound by illegal activity. “They are groups of friends who rob and shoot each other,” Detective Greg Gehring said. “That’s just what they do.”(via ffof)
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RELATED: Toronto Homicide Squad...
...rounding up local farmers, hunters and target shooters...
A man in his 20’s is expected to recover after being shot early Sunday morning. Toronto police say the incident occurred at Parliament Street and Cherry Street shortly after 2:30 a.m.Summer of the Gun II.
The suspect is black, 20 to 25 years old and 5’10” to six-feet tall. He wore a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants and fled the area in a silver Toyota sedan.