Mayhem in Roxbury park as cops chase fleeing gunmen
Boston Police responded to the sound of gunfire at the Academy Homes project in Roxbury around 7:30 last night just in time to see two alleged thugs with guns, who promptly ran off:
... Officers pulled up alongside the two armed, running suspects to try to apprehend them when one changed direction and ran inside Marcella Park where children and parents were already fleeing seeking cover after hearing the shots fired. Both suspects were pursued into the park where they continued to try to elude officers by jumping fences, running into the children's playground area, and under bleachers in the park. ...
Hasaan A. Seales, 19, of Roxbury and Charles Bomman, 18, of Jamaica Plain now face a variety of charges. Police say they also found the car the two were apparently shooting at.
Last year, the Globe highlighted Seales as somebody whose life was allegedly turned around by state anti-violence grants:
At yesterday's press conference, Hasaan Seales, 18, of Roxbury, said that the Youth Opportunity Boston program helped him turn away from street life. He is now working, helping on a botany project at Franklin Park, and is about to start studying for his GED.
About 90 minutes after the Roxbury arrests, police in Dorchester also heard gunfire and when one potential witness seemed "discombobulated," they searched him and say they found a loaded gun. Darren S. Winston, 19, of Dorchester, arrested.
Finally, in the ooh-a-tough-guy department, police this morning say they arrested Antonio Bland, 31, of Dorchester, on a charge of witness intimidation outside Roxbury District Court:
Officers were in court for a case involving the suspect when they observed him outside the court motioning with his fingers as if armed with a gun, and squeezing the trigger firing at in the direction of officers. The suspect was looking directly in the direction of the officers while being observed by a group of young males looked on.
Innocent, etc.
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Funny how it works...the
Funny how it works...the police only arrest the guys who have "turned their lives around." They get the kid who was "in with a bad crowd," but they never seem to get the "bad crowd."
Turning one's life around
Obviously we need more grant money! Keep increasing spending until it works! (Has anyone ever considered a targeted tax on rap/thug/hip hop music?)
How about a heavy tax on
How about a heavy tax on guns?
Better yet, how about $5000 bullets, surely that would have stopped this!
Do have to point out that if
Do have to point out that if a person is dropping out of HS and getting a GED, it's not really something to be proud of, especially with the very lack standards and curriculum of inner city schools.
They really couldn't find a better candidate to promote? Someone who graduated HS, and was looking forward to a college education...
Doesn't really promote trust in the taxpayers that this is where their money should be going. they should be trying to get them to graduate HS and look toward college, not get a GED and a minimum wage job...
GED
A lot of home-schoolers and their parents would object to that statement. Don't many or most colleges accept a GED as a high-school equivalent?
Equivalent?
Equivalent in the sense of consolation prize?
Sure, colleges accept a GED as a high school equivalent. That checks off a box. But the hard part about getting into college is not graduating high school. It's accomplishing something in high school to make you stand out. Something unlike a GED.
I don't think you'll find any home-schoolers proud about having a GED. I expect you'd find more proud about other accomplishments.
I Got a GED
I dropped out of high school and got a GED. I'm not proud of it, but at least I know that "lack" is a verb or sometimes a noun -- not an adjective as you use it here.
The phrase you're probably thinking of is "lax standards," and it seems you've got them when it comes to grammar and punctuation. Also, have you considered writing in complete sentences? It's the least you can do when calling out someone else's education. Where'd they teach you to write like that, anyway, private school?
The whole point of anti-violence programs
Is to help kids at risk for becoming violent thugs whose lifelong incarceration taxpayers have to pay for - such as the kid in the story (that it didn't seem to work for him - or us - in this case is another matter).