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The Other McCain has a tremendous post today. Calling out the media for not reporting the truths about violent crime and teens.
After reading a story about a recent murder, the idea occurred to me, why not just Google “teens arrested”? One of the first news stories I saw was the case from Charlotte, North Carolina, where five teens in a stolen Dodge Charger led police on a high-speed pursuit Thursday afternoon. The youthful miscreants were ages 14-16:
Police said they are serial offenders and had racked up at least 84 charges between them before Thursday’s arrest. Several of the teens were linked to multiple vehicle break-ins, police said.
A stolen firearm was found in the vehicle. Anyway, I continued my Google search and here is a sampling of recent headlines
Four teens arrested in connection
to the murder of a 17-year-old in November
— KNXV-TV, Phoenix, Dec. 203 teens arrested
in string of armed robberies
across San Diego County
— KNSD-TV, San Diego, Dec. 18Two teens arrested after fight breaks out
at Southern Park Mall
— WFMJ-TV, Youngstown, Ohio, Dec. 2710 teens arrested in 2 carjacking rings
— WRC-TV, Washington, D.C., Dec. 115 teens charged in violent beating
at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
— CBS News, Dec. 19
The list goes on and on and on and…… Well, you get the idea, Then McCain gets to the key point, the media is hesitant to be honest about these cases
Consider this recent report about some Florida teens celebrating the festive holiday season:
Two brothers, 14 and 15, face murder charges after an argument over who was getting more presents led to a shooting that killed their sister — a mother of two — on Christmas Eve.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said the “family spat” began Sunday during a shopping trip in Largo. When the family returned to the home of the boys’ grandmother in the 2300 block of 22nd Avenue Southwest, the teens were still arguing.
Standing in the kitchen, Damarcus Coley, 14, pulled out a .40 caliber semi-automatic handgun and aimed it at his brother, 15-year-old Darcus Coley, threatening to shoot him in the head, Gualtieri said.
The teens’ uncle separated the boys, telling Damarcus to step outside. Gualtieri said a neighbor’s outdoor camera captured audio of their sister, Abrielle Baldwin, 23, as she tried to intervene.
“You all need to leave that stuff alone. Why are you trying to start it? It’s Christmas,” Baldwin told her younger brother, Gualtieri said.
At about 1:45 p.m., Damarcus yelled threats at Baldwin and then shot her in the chest, Gualtieri said. The round went through her left arm before puncturing her lungs. At the time, Baldwin was holding her 10-month-old baby, who was not injured, Gualtieri said.
After hearing the gunshot, Darcus ran outside, screaming about how Damarcus had shot their sister.
Eight seconds after the fatal shot rang out, Darcus fired a round at his brother with his own .45 caliber pistol, Gualtieri said. The 15-year-old threw his gun in a neighbor’s yard and ran to a relative’s home in Clearwater, where deputies later arrested him, Gualtieri said. Darcus made statements about self-harm and was taken to a mental health facility.
The media, we see, is, well, agenda driven. And, the agenda is not truth or facts. Please go read the rest
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