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In reply to the discussion: #BlackLivesMatter but 15 Minutes of Fame Seekers Shouldn't: The Sanders/O'Malley Shoutdown NN15 [View all]LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)80. It's not a slip....
This sad event occurred in our community a week and one half prior and continued, yesterday....
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/07/relative_of_two_ypsilanti_homi.html#incart_m-rpt-2
Keandre Duff a 20 year old African-American male died a week and one-half ago at a Block Party attended by other teenagers (about 100). It is believed his killing was in response to the murder (unsolved) of Keon Washington nearly one year ago. Duff was held as a suspect in Washington's case for 297 days but released and never formally charged. It is believed Duff's murder was in retaliation for Washington's. Both were Young African-American males.
This is what was done in response or and yes #BlackLivesMatter supporters were there:
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/07/rally_for_peace_winds_through.html#incart_river
But good job trying to frame these words into something else they were not except WHAT THEY WERE. NOT!
By the way, I personally attended, walked in the heat and rain at the Stop the Violence march -- standing along side others who are trying to form actual mentions to Stop the Violence of Young Black Males killing other Young Black Males over BS. No one was shouting (with the exception of saying Stop the Violence in Unison). Folks were talking to Politicians trying to craft solutions. In fact, individuals were equally discussing options with Police Officials trying to do the same.
It was a great event and I'm personally proud to have spend my Saturday trying to DO SOMETHING instead of Shouting Folks Down or witnessing such at Netroots Nation 2015!
By the Way, Where were you?
"A 22-year-old man related to both Keandre Duff and Keon Washington is in custody after gunmen fired shots at an Ypsilanti restaurant Saturday afternoon.
Two other men are also in custody, according to police.
The shots were fired as hundreds marched for peace through the streets of Ypsilanti. The city has been gripped by gun violence since Duff was shot and killed last weekend. He was laid to rest Saturday morning, before the rally and before the shots were fired.
Police were called to the 500 block of West Cross Street at 1:05 p.m. for a shots fired complaint, according to a press release.
Witnesses said a red Ford Focus was involved and fled west on Cross Street, then south on College Place.
Mike Country owns The Shop, a medical marijuana dispensary a few storefronts down from the restaurant. He said he was outside when the first shot was fired but then hightailed it inside.
In all, he said, five shots were fired.
Country said a group of teenagers was sitting at the tables in front of the restaurant when some other young men rounded the corner of Ballard and Cross.
"I heard someone say, 'There he is,'" Country said.
Then the shots were fired and all the teens fled.
Officers saw the vehicle near Hamilton and Michigan and eventually stopped it near East Ainsworth and Ainsworth Circle.
A 22-year-old Ypsilanti man, a 23-year-old Ypsilanti Township man and a 21-year-old Ypsilanti Township man were taken into custody."
Two other men are also in custody, according to police.
The shots were fired as hundreds marched for peace through the streets of Ypsilanti. The city has been gripped by gun violence since Duff was shot and killed last weekend. He was laid to rest Saturday morning, before the rally and before the shots were fired.
Police were called to the 500 block of West Cross Street at 1:05 p.m. for a shots fired complaint, according to a press release.
Witnesses said a red Ford Focus was involved and fled west on Cross Street, then south on College Place.
Mike Country owns The Shop, a medical marijuana dispensary a few storefronts down from the restaurant. He said he was outside when the first shot was fired but then hightailed it inside.
In all, he said, five shots were fired.
Country said a group of teenagers was sitting at the tables in front of the restaurant when some other young men rounded the corner of Ballard and Cross.
"I heard someone say, 'There he is,'" Country said.
Then the shots were fired and all the teens fled.
Officers saw the vehicle near Hamilton and Michigan and eventually stopped it near East Ainsworth and Ainsworth Circle.
A 22-year-old Ypsilanti man, a 23-year-old Ypsilanti Township man and a 21-year-old Ypsilanti Township man were taken into custody."
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/07/relative_of_two_ypsilanti_homi.html#incart_m-rpt-2
Keandre Duff a 20 year old African-American male died a week and one-half ago at a Block Party attended by other teenagers (about 100). It is believed his killing was in response to the murder (unsolved) of Keon Washington nearly one year ago. Duff was held as a suspect in Washington's case for 297 days but released and never formally charged. It is believed Duff's murder was in retaliation for Washington's. Both were Young African-American males.
This is what was done in response or and yes #BlackLivesMatter supporters were there:
"Cheyenne Turner joined hundreds of others in the south Ypsilanti streets in the name of peace Saturday.
The rally started soon after 20-year-old Keandre Duff was laid to rest a few miles away in a town recently plagued by gun violence.
Turner, a community support specialist at the Washtenaw County Youth Center, frequently shows the kids who are in and out of the detention center a picture of her 22-year-old brother after he was shot in the head.
"I show them pictures of his head bandaged up with his skull half off," she said. "And then I show them pictures of what he looks like today."
Turner's brother made it, but barely. He will never speak or live without assistance again.
Duff was not as lucky. He was killed after being shot in the head at a block party near the intersection of Brooks and Watling streets in the early morning hours of July 12.
Turner uses the picture of her brother as a cautionary tale, which she said is just what Ypsilanti teens need after the shooting death of Duff, previously the main suspect in the homicide of Keon Washington a year ago.
"We have to get back to being a village," Turner said. "We are the village it takes to raise these kids."
Since Duff's death, there have been several incidents of shots fired in the city of Ypsilanti and surrounding Ypsilanti Township, including a suspect opening fire on some teens in front of a restaurant in the 500 block of West Cross Street as the rally was going on. No one was injured in the incident.
The hundreds of citizens, organizations and city leaders who showed up to the rally talked about stopping just that kind of violence. They included U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, Mayor Amanda Edmonds, county commissioner Ronnie Peterson, members of the Eastern Michigan University basketball team, Ypsilanti school officials and officers from the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office and Ypsilanti Police Department.
They walked the stuffy heat. As the march wound its way back to Perry Child Development Center, located 550 Perry Street, a downpour left everyone soaked.
Despite the rain, the crowd chanted, "Stop the violence, stop the violence."
"We have failed our young people," said Ypsilanti Community Schools superintendent Ben Edmondson during a six-minute speech at a gospel festival following the march. "Violence is not any (way) to solve disputes, beefs or disagreements."
Edmondson said the trend of young African American males being caught up in the cycle of violence is disturbing. He said the community needs to step up to help and nurture young kids like Washington and Duff who are getting caught up in the violence.
Ypsilanti police Lt. Deric Gress said his detectives came in off vacation and have been working 16-hour days working on leads. But people in the community need "to have the courage" to offer police information about what happened."
The rally started soon after 20-year-old Keandre Duff was laid to rest a few miles away in a town recently plagued by gun violence.
Turner, a community support specialist at the Washtenaw County Youth Center, frequently shows the kids who are in and out of the detention center a picture of her 22-year-old brother after he was shot in the head.
"I show them pictures of his head bandaged up with his skull half off," she said. "And then I show them pictures of what he looks like today."
Turner's brother made it, but barely. He will never speak or live without assistance again.
Duff was not as lucky. He was killed after being shot in the head at a block party near the intersection of Brooks and Watling streets in the early morning hours of July 12.
Turner uses the picture of her brother as a cautionary tale, which she said is just what Ypsilanti teens need after the shooting death of Duff, previously the main suspect in the homicide of Keon Washington a year ago.
"We have to get back to being a village," Turner said. "We are the village it takes to raise these kids."
Since Duff's death, there have been several incidents of shots fired in the city of Ypsilanti and surrounding Ypsilanti Township, including a suspect opening fire on some teens in front of a restaurant in the 500 block of West Cross Street as the rally was going on. No one was injured in the incident.
The hundreds of citizens, organizations and city leaders who showed up to the rally talked about stopping just that kind of violence. They included U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, Mayor Amanda Edmonds, county commissioner Ronnie Peterson, members of the Eastern Michigan University basketball team, Ypsilanti school officials and officers from the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office and Ypsilanti Police Department.
They walked the stuffy heat. As the march wound its way back to Perry Child Development Center, located 550 Perry Street, a downpour left everyone soaked.
Despite the rain, the crowd chanted, "Stop the violence, stop the violence."
"We have failed our young people," said Ypsilanti Community Schools superintendent Ben Edmondson during a six-minute speech at a gospel festival following the march. "Violence is not any (way) to solve disputes, beefs or disagreements."
Edmondson said the trend of young African American males being caught up in the cycle of violence is disturbing. He said the community needs to step up to help and nurture young kids like Washington and Duff who are getting caught up in the violence.
Ypsilanti police Lt. Deric Gress said his detectives came in off vacation and have been working 16-hour days working on leads. But people in the community need "to have the courage" to offer police information about what happened."
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2015/07/rally_for_peace_winds_through.html#incart_river
But good job trying to frame these words into something else they were not except WHAT THEY WERE. NOT!
By the way, I personally attended, walked in the heat and rain at the Stop the Violence march -- standing along side others who are trying to form actual mentions to Stop the Violence of Young Black Males killing other Young Black Males over BS. No one was shouting (with the exception of saying Stop the Violence in Unison). Folks were talking to Politicians trying to craft solutions. In fact, individuals were equally discussing options with Police Officials trying to do the same.
It was a great event and I'm personally proud to have spend my Saturday trying to DO SOMETHING instead of Shouting Folks Down or witnessing such at Netroots Nation 2015!
By the Way, Where were you?
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#BlackLivesMatter but 15 Minutes of Fame Seekers Shouldn't: The Sanders/O'Malley Shoutdown NN15 [View all]
LovingA2andMI
Jul 2015
OP
They have to disrupt. They are in an emergency. This is the only way they have to get attention.
Cheese Sandwich
Jul 2015
#4
Was going to alert that comment but figured Sanders' supporters on jury wouldn't agree
KittyWampus
Jul 2015
#77
Well, I just voted to hide that filth. We'll see if the rest of the jury agrees.
PeaceNikki
Jul 2015
#89
"I promised last night to step back from that topic on DU and am going to refrain."
Number23
Jul 2015
#111
Then make sure you are correct on where Hillary was --- In Iowa Campaigning...#FYI...
LovingA2andMI
Jul 2015
#62
I have been waiting to hear about "Black Lives Matter" and the cop killings across the country
Stellar
Jul 2015
#6
"Right now, the Justice Department can do the most to remedy this situation."
winter is coming
Jul 2015
#45
What exactly do you want them to do, other than to not say "All Lives Matter"? /nt
RiverLover
Jul 2015
#42
I guess addressing it in Netroots KEYNOTE speech wasn't enough. That makes sense. Protest!!!
RiverLover
Jul 2015
#48
"Instinctual politicians" PANDER. Bernie Sanders does not. "Instinctual politicians" say what they
cherokeeprogressive
Jul 2015
#108
I get it that black people have more or less been played by Democrats in the past. They happily
brewens
Jul 2015
#46
the link is bad. Is that from the website where banned DU'ers go to trash talk Skinner?
KittyWampus
Jul 2015
#64