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Originally Posted by tricia208  There were no winners in this whole ordeal. Unless we change the tone in this nation then this family that lost their son and the other family that knows their son is a target will continue to suffer all of this pain and without society learning and growing from this debacle. We have so many opinions about this subject. In the meantime there are more children being killed and not just with guns. They are being killed in many ways. Even worse we are killing their spirit and hope for a better life. We are teaching them to get angry and not improve relations.
In the meantime, I want to mention these children were all killed during the Zimmerman/Martin trial but their loss has gone unnoticed.
June 28, five year old Sterling Sims was killed in a double murder that also claimed the life of his mother, 31 year old Chavonne Brown. Both were shot in their apartment, and police believe the motive was robbery.
July 1, 16 year old Antonio Fenner was gunned on the sidewalk next to the body of a 32 year old man who had gang ties. No arrests were made, and no suspects have been named. Fenner's mother believes her son was in the wrong place at the wrong time because no one in her family knew the other victim or what Fenner's association was to him.
July 3, 14 year old Damani Henard was murdered outside a high school. His body was found next to a bicycle.
July 9, 15 year old Ed Cooper was shot and killed while spending time with friends at the park. A gunman got out of a black van and began firing as the boys ran away. Cooper was shot in the street and continued running to a vacant lot where he died.
I hope we soon reach a time where we have all had the proper time to vent and share our thoughts to then start the healing, problem solving and improving society process. We are all strong independent thinkers so we don't need to let those with an agenda and those looking for a fight shape our thinking or prevent us from doing something for the positive. These 4 youths that died during the trial did not get the attention they deserved. I want to find a way to stop 4 more innocent lives from being lost and discounted or prevent innocent lives from losing their spirit and hope for a better future.
I pray the Martin and Zimmerman families with time can find a path to ease their overwhelming pain and that we have learned something to prevent this torment from happening again.
Just my thoughts I needed to share and hopefully I did not offend anyone. |
Thank you for pointing those horrible deaths out and naming them. Not many people are mourning them because no one of note used their deaths to stay relevant or hype ratings or Tweet themselves to more followers. So many dying and only one is so widely being mourned because his killer was lighter-skinned(many labelled him as white) and his motives instantly ascribed to race.