September 12, 2007
Ross Saving The Day -- Vigilantes In The Backstory
So hey, remember that shooting that Ross Mirkarimi helped solve? According to the Chron, the cops are saying it was a vigilante father-son duo, out for revenge after the victim stole a gold chain from the son. Whoa!
The son was walking to school when a group of young men held him up and took his gold chain. The son then called his father, who drove to the scene with his wife. People heard gunfire, and then the guy who stole the chain fell down in a crosswalk. The father then hit the guy three times with his car, breaking the victim's pelvis. Then the father jumped out of the car and yelled at the son to "finish him," at which point the son fired two or three shots at him.
Turns out Ross Mirkarimi wasn't the only person who saw this; the police say there were numerous witnesses on the scene. For what it's worth, the father says while he did hit the victim three times, it was all an accident because his transmission got stuck. The victim, who was (ironically enough) supposed to appear in court later that day on a gun charge, may never walk again. The father and son have both been charged with attempted (see comments) murder (and the father with cocaine possession); the father also has a rap sheet of his own.
These vigilante stories always make us very nervous -- but we'll go ahead and illustrate this post with a picture of the poster from the new Jodie Foster movie anyways.
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i love heartwarming stories about father-son bonding
Correction: They're being charged with ATTEMPTED MURDER! It does make a difference, you know.
Recent cinematic efforts indicate that it makes all the difference.
It's like I always say: Don't rob a teenager wearing a gold chain at gunpoint unless you want his cokehead father breaking your pelvis to bits.
Anyhow, I wouldn't exactly call this vigilantism. It's more like revenge. And incoherent, inarticulate rage. And being coked up. And poor. And abjectly indifferent to the turns of your life, because the hand you've been dealt is such that nothing much matters.
I feel sad for these people. Must've been one hell of a gold chain.
another example of the deadly pro-automobile agenda afflicting our city.
holy shit!
somebody call the producers of law and order!
i can't say i feel any sympothy for the dead punk
check out the story about the same deal shooting here from one of the chronicle columnists that happen to drive by right when the cops showed up:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/09/12/notes091207.DTL
ROLE MODELS...
The violence and "opression" will never end without good role models. You can blam Fong, you can blame HUD, you can blame Gavin. None of them are at fault and there is nothing they can do until the youth in these areas have respectable role models to pattern their lives after.
I think the city has some mentoring programs, and maybe this is the way to go to help the youth of the projects. Give them the exposure and the skills and tools to make something of themselves.
It's not just the boys, either. The girls need role models, too. They need to learn how to respect themselves and others.
If the community at-large can't manage to put something like this together, then maybe the city could put some resources to it.
Guess Ross ain't that much of a hero after all.
http://p209.ezboard.com/fabledartsbathroomwallfrm21.showMessage?topicID=3177.topic
Anybody that gives a shit and tries to help fight crime in San Francisco is a hero to me.
The police are heroes, Newsom and HUD, as that person pointed out, not so much...
Guest[2]: A crucial adjective to leave out, true! Corrected in the text. Thanks!
The new Jodie Foster movie looks pretty entertaining. When the cops are too understaffed or the DA's office only prosecutes sure things, the citizens go commando - yikes. That sure won't help quell the violence in our streets. However, I worry that talk of gun bans (thank goodness a judge overturned the handgun initiative passed last year) advertise San Francisco's law-abiding citizens as easy, defenseless targets for criminals. Criminals are looking for the easy targets - low probabilities that they'll get caught or hurt in the process of taking your wallet/purse. If we do have a gun ban, doesn't that advertise our City as being the easiest target in the area? Something to think about...
Im getting licensed to pepperspray this weekend.
#9 - the person you refer to pointed out that Newsom and HUD are *NOT* to blame for the assholes who live in HUD and grow up with such fathers as their role models. Read more carefully what you refer to next time.
Transmission troubles?-- call WH-AAMCO, WH-AAMCO... that's WH-AAMCO.
't just might keep you outa jail.
#13, you've misunderstood my point. I sure will continue to blame HUD and Newsom, esp when the Mayor holds his photo-op press conferences in the housing projects, while residents there peek out of their windows wondering what the hell he's doing.