Certain areas of Miami Dade county have lately seen an uptick in violence. We won’t delve into what is causing it because nobody is being told so you are free to assume the causes.
Last Saturday night, a car crashed into the fence of a house. The driver was found with a gun shot to the chest. He was taken to the hospital where he died.
Soon it was known that he had gotten shot as he tried to rob three people a couple of blocks away and he got shot for his troubles. Other than that, we don’t know much.
The local ABC station posted this in their front page”
Oh damn! Another innocent victim of gun violence! Damn you NRA! (shakes fist in anger)
Clicking on the link, we are taken to the story, which now has a small change.
Then added an angelical photo of the deceased subject:
And the obligatory “he didindu nuffin, he was a good boy” comment from relatives:
Martinez’s family came to the scene of the crash Sunday morning to thank the neighbor who tried to save the man’s life.
Osma Martinez said he doesn’t know the circumstances of what happened and that his cousin was by no means an angel, but he didn’t deserve to get shot.
Fatally wounded, driver crashes car into yard in Miami, police say
Amazingly, the Miami Herald was less PC and went cold facts and a recent photo:
Yes, that photo is from the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department. And you can bet he did not get the picture as celebration for employee of the month.
So, we seem to have a defensive use of a firearm that one TV station seems to have tried to re-arrange into something else. But that would be par for South Florida news media.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
WPLG is the local version of the Communist News Network. If they were any farther left they would have their studios in the middle of the gulf of mexico.
More like 90 miles south
After what I posted about the Broward County school system and how they handle student behavior, all those graduation photos mean is that he didn’t commit the same felony twice in the same semester at the same school. It might as well be a booking photo for that the “angelic innocence” it is worth.
In late 80/early 81 I was in Miami on business. I was walking down the street and saw a Miami News (the now-defunct afternoon version of the Herald) headline that caught my eye, so I parted with a hard-earned quarter and bought one. The story was about an urban youth who was driving around looking for someone to rob. He saw a car pull into a driveway and a couple exit the vehicle. He pulled in behind them, pulled a gun, and announced a robbery, at which point the male victim gut-shot him and severed his spinal cord.
The headline that caught my eye? “High School Wrestling Star Shot, Paralyzed.”
The more things change . . .