NYC man fatally shot while holding hands with pigtailed daughter in the Bronx, shocking video shows

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Shocking video shows the moment a man was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting in the Bronx Sunday - while he was holding hands and crossing the street with his pigtailed little daughter.

Anthony Robinson, 28, had traveled from Brooklyn with his 7-year-old daughter Khloe to spend the holiday weekend in the Bronx, where Khloe’s mom lives and shares custody of the little girl with Robinson.

The unsuspecting pair was holding hands and strolling along E. 170th St. shortly before 6 p.m. when a dark sedan rolled up slowly, and a passenger leaned out and started shooting as the dad and daughter crossed Sheridan Ave. in Mount Eden.

Video shows Robinson, shot in the chest, falling to the ground, as little Khloe lets go of her daddy’s hand and dashes down the street to safety.

Cops said the gunman in the car squeezed off four shots. Miraculously, none of them hit the little girl, or anyone else.

The bloodshed was part of a holiday weekend of violence more typically associated with the crack epidemic years of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

On Sunday alone, 48 people were shot, nine fatally, in 30 different incidents around the city.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-video-bronx-man-fatally-shot-holding-hands-girl-20200706-4wrhjnlz2fdutikkwfkug6miom-story.html

[cwydro]

1. Will we see protests?

Will people march? React in shock?

[JI7]

2. Im sure we will if they refuse to arrest and charge whoever did it

[cwydro]

5. Most likely there will "be no witnesses."

Horrible shooting in my hometown not too long ago during a protest.

No one is cooperating with the police. I saw one interview with a woman (African-American) who's lived in the area for years, and she said she's looking to move out because of how the community has become.

[rzemanfl]

6. Bookmarking. I always read profiles. n/t

[cwydro]

14. Oh durn, I missed it!

Drat, I always miss it!

[SouthernCal_Dem]

4. In the US there are thousands of gun deaths each year

The killing of over two dozen elementary school kids in Newtown and 150 people at a concert in Vegas didn't change anything as the GOP and Republicans blocked gun control.

Also, George Floyd was murdered by an on-duty cop paid by the government so there’s obviously a difference and I’m surprised you can’t see it.

Yet more evidence America is a failed nation thanks to the GOP and the blocking of gun control and real police reform.

The world looks on in pity.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

8. you have an interesting take

I remember back in 2014 similar statements when police brutal slaying of Michael Brown occurred

[cwydro]

9. You don't think this is horrible to have so many shootings this past weekend?

That at least three children were killed?

That the article pointed out that the shootings are getting worse and worse? More frequent and completely uncaring as to any collateral damage?

But your insinuation is noted.

[SouthernCal_Dem]

10. The person you're replying to never said those shootings aren't horrible.

Not sure where you got that from.

[cwydro]

11. Erm.

Ok.

[SouthernCal_Dem]

15. ...

[SiliconValley_Dem]

12. let me spell this out for you. law enforcement is support to behave lawfully

when it becomes apparent that there is a a chronic problem with unequal application of force against minorities and when it is clear far too few police are receiving consequences for their lawless behavior, there will be protests.

if there are shooting spiking in some cities relative to some recent years, then this is an issue which has a seemingly straightforward solution--community engagement efforts to get witnesses to step forward, arrests and prosecution of those criminals. end of story. but if we accept the legal premise and biological that we are all created equal, then we must look at the deeper root cause for these shootings--1) way too many guns flowing freely in our country. its been proven over and over again scientifically. 2)structural disadvantages among a persecuted, often hopeless African American population. work on fixes for those things AND hold lawless police officers accountable for their crimes while rewarding and reinforcing exemplary police.

[jmg257]

18. Systemic police problems must be resolved. Until then, they will be protested. As for

All those other murders/deaths...well...guns!
And figure out why the people want to kill other people so readily.

As of the June 22 update, the Washington Post’s database of fatal police shootings showed 14 unarmed Black victims and 25 unarmed white victims in 2019.
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Ideally, officers would never take anyone’s life in the course of their duties. But given the number of arrests they make each year (around 10 million) and the number of deadly-weapons attacks on officers (an average of 27 per day in just two-thirds of the nation’s police departments, according to a 2014 analysis), it is not clear that these 1,000 civilian shooting deaths suggest that law enforcement is out of control.

[RandiFan1290]

21. It's a rw talking point

It is the standard response from the right when a black person is murdered by anyone other than a police officer.

[still_one]

7. Hopefully they will be able to get the license plate number

[VMA131Marine]

13. This does not seem like it was a random shooting

Based on the description of what happened anyway. Hopefully the police are able to track down the bastard who did this.

[lostnfound]

16. "Dark sedan"? Looks white to me. Nt

[RhodeIslandOne]

19. There is a glare on the camera that makes the passenger side appear white. n/m

[jmg257]

17. Terrible. I hope the community response gets to the bottom of this, and all

Those other senseless murders. They should be able to find ways to deal with the perpetrators that actually helps.

[ChazII]

20. Thank you for your post.

This murder will remain in his daughter's life forever. I hope there is emotional, psychological and financial support for her.