As posted in the below UPDATES to the "Another Shooting (And Another!)" post, the media continues to either remove or crop the photo of the 13-year-old offender in an effort to alter its meaning. Here's what they show:
And here's the actual photo, given to the media by the family before someone told them this might be a bad idea to have floating around:
It has been pointed out to us by a number of commentators that he is representing one of the most violent street gangs ever to grace the streets of Chicago, namely the vice lords. It has also been mentioned that the nearby Piccolo Elementary School has suffered a rash of windows being shot out by BB's over the past week along with neighborhood cars. Also, the time of the shooting (after 2300 hours) indicates a curfew violation. But none of this is being covered in the media reports now. All we're hearing is how police are too heavy handed, Jimmell was a good boy, there was no gun, blah blah blah.
Two words for the media - Yummy Sandifer.
You think this isn't still happening today? You think the media is doing anything but abetting the next juvenile delinquent by cropping the only decent photo the family had of Jimmell (and it's him throwing up for the nation)? You think making the police the enemy of a community so dysfunctional that their children are amassing felony records before they can legally drive is going to suddenly....
Ah screw it. We can only point out the media hypocrisy and their inept reporting skills for so long before we throw up our hands. Maybe some of the extra visitors we had yesterday will drop back in, see what the media is truly up to, become so disgusted they cancel their subscriptions and the entire dead-tree media dies that much faster.
And here's the actual photo, given to the media by the family before someone told them this might be a bad idea to have floating around:
It has been pointed out to us by a number of commentators that he is representing one of the most violent street gangs ever to grace the streets of Chicago, namely the vice lords. It has also been mentioned that the nearby Piccolo Elementary School has suffered a rash of windows being shot out by BB's over the past week along with neighborhood cars. Also, the time of the shooting (after 2300 hours) indicates a curfew violation. But none of this is being covered in the media reports now. All we're hearing is how police are too heavy handed, Jimmell was a good boy, there was no gun, blah blah blah.
Two words for the media - Yummy Sandifer.
You think this isn't still happening today? You think the media is doing anything but abetting the next juvenile delinquent by cropping the only decent photo the family had of Jimmell (and it's him throwing up for the nation)? You think making the police the enemy of a community so dysfunctional that their children are amassing felony records before they can legally drive is going to suddenly....
Ah screw it. We can only point out the media hypocrisy and their inept reporting skills for so long before we throw up our hands. Maybe some of the extra visitors we had yesterday will drop back in, see what the media is truly up to, become so disgusted they cancel their subscriptions and the entire dead-tree media dies that much faster.