Another black eye for Philly

[PAhunter]

Not sure of the reporters stance on this. Sounds like she may have been trying to fuel the fire by creating a sense of abandonment by the residents. The next story may very well be one like.......
"ILLEGAL GUNS AND HOW DO THE UNEMPLOYED AFFORD THEM"

A shooting every night in this neighborhood
By VALERIE RUSS
Philadelphia Daily News
russv@phillynews.com 215-854-5987

It was eerily quiet in South Philadelphia around Sigel Street near 20th yesterday.
The night before, three young men standing in front of a house there were shot and wounded, one of them critically with a gunshot to the head.
What appeared to be police tape marked two spots on either side of the front door where bullets apparently left small, round scrape marks on the red brick wall.
"It's quiet like this every day," said a 49-year-old man, who didn't want his name in the paper. "Then it's shooting every night."
The gunshots rang out Thursday about 8:30 p.m.
A 62-year-old grandmother and her family heard the shots, and it was, "Hit the floor! Hit the floor!" she said yesterday.
The grandmother lives several doors from where the young men were shot. She was upstairs, and threw her 2-year-old grandchild to the floor when she heard shots.
She said her two adult daughters, on the first floor, each grabbed a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old and covered them with their bodies.
"The 8-year-old, he's trained already," she said. "He knows to hit the floor when he hears gunshots."
It was quiet at 2 p.m. yesterday because many of the residents work and were not at home. And it was one hour before small groups of school children would fill the streets with laughter and smiling faces.
This is the neighborhood that gave hip-hop artist Beanie Sigel his stage name. And it's a neighborhood that has almost become resigned to many shootings over the years.
Just last summer, two young children were shot and wounded by gunfire on Sigel near 22nd. An 8-year-old boy was shot in August and a 4-year-old girl was shot in June.
Then last October, 17-year-old Kyle Brown, who lived on 21st near Sigel, was shot and killed at Hemberger Street near 23rd. It was the second heartbreak in less than six months for his family: Kyle's older brother Derrick Brown, 23, was shot and killed May 10 at 21st and McKean.
Several of the middle-aged residents interviewed yesterday said the same thing about why there is violence in the area:
"They don't have no jobs," said a 49-year-old man, of the young men in the neighborhood. "They have nothing to do, too much idle time."
The older people in the area are working people, said Joe Burwell, 59, who was just getting home from his job feeding meals to elderly people who reside in a home for independent living.
"It's the second generation that don't have jobs," said Burwell.
The youngest victim Thursday, an 18-year-old who police have not identified, was shot in the head and was in critical condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
A 20-year-old victim, who a neighbor said lives in the house where the men were
standing, was shot in the leg. The third victim, a 19-year-old boy who lives on the block, was shot in the stomach.
The third victim's uncle, who withheld his name, said his nephew had been too sedated to tell his family what happened.
Police said yesterday they had no suspects and knew of no motive for the shootings. *

Makes me grateful every day I am not a resident of The City of Brotherly Love.

Jack

[Philadelphia]

The "no jobs" refrain is some truth and some BS as in most things.

If you can barely speak "english" and won't show up for work on time every day you are supposed to, there is no work.

If you don't mind honest work for honest pay, there's plenty to do.

No surprises there.

As I always say, the gov't must control crime. I'll control my own guns, thank you.

Oh, and as for motives in the shootings, if you're not involved in the drug trade, you have about zero chance of getting shot at. THe police know the motives. The people in the "stop snitchin" mentality neighborhoods deserve what they get.

[Brick]

[QUOTE=Philadelphia;134911]
THe police know the motives.QUOTE]

And the residents of the hood know who the bad boys doing the shooting are and until they get tired of the duck and cover routine and start turning the skells in, nothing will change.

[TravisBickle]

"The don't have no jobs"............................

[brewguy]

Not sure of the reporters stance on this. Sounds like she may have been trying to fuel the fire by creating a sense of abandonment by the residents. The next story may very well be one like.......
"ILLEGAL GUNS AND HOW DO THE UNEMPLOYED AFFORD THEM"

A shooting every night in this neighborhood
By VALERIE RUSS
Philadelphia Daily News
russv@phillynews.com 215-854-5987

It was eerily quiet in South Philadelphia around Sigel Street near 20th yesterday.
The night before, three young men standing in front of a house there were shot and wounded, one of them critically with a gunshot to the head.
What appeared to be police tape marked two spots on either side of the front door where bullets apparently left small, round scrape marks on the red brick wall.
"It's quiet like this every day," said a 49-year-old man, who didn't want his name in the paper. "Then it's shooting every night."
The gunshots rang out Thursday about 8:30 p.m.
A 62-year-old grandmother and her family heard the shots, and it was, "Hit the floor! Hit the floor!" she said yesterday.
The grandmother lives several doors from where the young men were shot. She was upstairs, and threw her 2-year-old grandchild to the floor when she heard shots.
She said her two adult daughters, on the first floor, each grabbed a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old and covered them with their bodies.
"The 8-year-old, he's trained already," she said. "He knows to hit the floor when he hears gunshots."
It was quiet at 2 p.m. yesterday because many of the residents work and were not at home. And it was one hour before small groups of school children would fill the streets with laughter and smiling faces.
This is the neighborhood that gave hip-hop artist Beanie Sigel his stage name. And it's a neighborhood that has almost become resigned to many shootings over the years.
Just last summer, two young children were shot and wounded by gunfire on Sigel near 22nd. An 8-year-old boy was shot in August and a 4-year-old girl was shot in June.
Then last October, 17-year-old Kyle Brown, who lived on 21st near Sigel, was shot and killed at Hemberger Street near 23rd. It was the second heartbreak in less than six months for his family: Kyle's older brother Derrick Brown, 23, was shot and killed May 10 at 21st and McKean.
Several of the middle-aged residents interviewed yesterday said the same thing about why there is violence in the area:
"They don't have no jobs," said a 49-year-old man, of the young men in the neighborhood. "They have nothing to do, too much idle time."
The older people in the area are working people, said Joe Burwell, 59, who was just getting home from his job feeding meals to elderly people who reside in a home for independent living.
"It's the second generation that don't have jobs," said Burwell.
The youngest victim Thursday, an 18-year-old who police have not identified, was shot in the head and was in critical condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
A 20-year-old victim, who a neighbor said lives in the house where the men were
standing, was shot in the leg. The third victim, a 19-year-old boy who lives on the block, was shot in the stomach.
The third victim's uncle, who withheld his name, said his nephew had been too sedated to tell his family what happened.
Police said yesterday they had no suspects and knew of no motive for the shootings. *

Makes me grateful every day I am not a resident of The City of Brotherly Love.

Jack

why should they work for beans when they can deal for some real money. Plus who needs to work when we are buying everything they need?