how could they clear the charges.
this is the worst news i heard!!!!!!
they made the wrong decision!!!
How was his life was i n danger

FIrst of all the officer did not know if it was a real gun or not , you mean to say that kids dont shoot at cops! Wake up man! Has nothing to do with race for all of u people out there that are going to play the race card!

I agree that this is not a race issue. However, this was a little child. He did not appear to be tall or big so there was no reason for the officer to feel threatened by this child. My question is the lack of common sense in these cases.

In june, a pregnant lady was handled roughly by police. They said they were following procedure. Common sense tells you if this lady is pregnant that she should not be required to lay on her belly during an arrest--a false arrest at that. Laws and rules are set in place for all people, however common sense should be used at all times. For example, Pedestrians are not supposed to walk out in traffic, but if I see someone standing in the lane I'm driving in, that doesn't give me the right to run over them and keep going. West Memphis Police, where is your judgement? This could have been prevented. This cop should be fired. He has a history of violence already. How can criminals be hired to protect us from other criminals. The justice system is a joke.

a child losing his life over a senseless act (by the child) is tragic.  however, do not judge this office based on what u hear/read in the media.  remember, there are always at least 3 sides to a story: person A, person B, and the truth.   this case has been reviewed by the justice dept and decided prosecution was not warranted.  we can all sit here and pick apart this case much as we have every other situation brought forth by the media but the bottom line is, the child should have been taught better by his parents that u do not point a gun (toy or otherwise) at the police, especially in the depth of darkness.  furthermore, do not judge these officers who put their lives on the line on a daily basis.  do u know what its like to go to work every day and wonder if u will be returning to ur family?  u never know if the person u apprehend for a trivial act, or confront for something even less will decide u offended or disrespected them and suddenly want revenge.  and before u blast me, yes i was a cop.  and a female cop at that.  

I think everyone needs to burn their own neighborhood and then expect someone else to rebuild it.

I have no idea if the cop did something wrong.  Only a lawyer in a civil lawsuit taking depositions is going to allow the family to hear what happened. What we do know the boy was wandering around late at night in a high crime area with a handgun.  I know that will bring howls but anyone would assume it is a real handgun today. What do you expect given the outrageous violence that is prevalent today in the black community.  Some sixteen y/o girls shot it out a few days later a couple of blocks away.

You know it has been over 19 years since the last kid with a fake handgun was shot by police.  In the same time approximately 2500 people - largely Black, were killed, largely by Black youths.  Yet somehow in the racial insanity the cops are considered the greater threat.  It is manifest insanity to whites and blacks are unable to understand why we marvel at it.

Let's get real here.  What is the real problem?

Ok. Just me and DeltaV. I see what you are saying. I was going by photos I saw on the news, So I can be a big person and say I was wrong for the first part of my comment. However, better judgement should have been used. Another thing, why is it that a regular person can be accused of a crime and it is okay to report on that but if a government official, police officer, and church leaders are accused the media should not say anything about it? I guess people in higher positions are never guilty of wrongdoing.

pretty23 - we all jump to conclusions based on media coverage.  but, very big of u to see our side.  and i personally thank you for that.  honestly, in response to ur comment about higher positions are never guilty, that is where i believe that the media has to come in and be more responsible in their reporting.  people so often forget that they are only to report the facts.  how many times do u find urself switching channels cuz u dont like what channel so -n- so is reporting?  they know this and pander to it.  

DeltaV - i agree with u, i bailed out for pretty much the same reason.  although, i am a single mother and just could not continue most importantly for my daughter.  fear of her becoming an orphan plus everything u stated!  i even passed up my dream of being NYPD for this reason.  it killed me to turn them down when called.  but, like u sd, just wear blinders and show up AFTER and ur an outstanding officer!

I GUESS A BLACK LIFE IS VALUED SO I GUESS THE LITTLE 3YR OLD WHITE BABY I FOUND WALKING IN THE MIDDLE OF MACON ROAD I SHOULD HAVE HIT HIM SINCE HE WAS IN MY LANE? THE COP DID NOT USE COMMON SENSE AND HE SHOULD BE TERMINATED WHETHER THE CHILD WAS WHITE OR BLACK ALSO A BLACK CHILD IS DEALT WITH MUCH HARSHLY THAN A WHIT CHILD IN SHELBY COUNTY. A WHITE CHILD GETS IN TROUBLE AND SENT HOME A BLACK CHILD DOES THE COURT SYSTEM SO SAVE THE SELF RIGHTOUS WHITE BULLCRAP. COLOR MATTER ALLWAYS HAVE ALLWAYS WILL

What do you mean it's over? This is another example of jena.
If it would have been a white child and a black officier he would have been executed by now.

This is definately a tragedy but as a policeman in arkansas i understand why the officer acted the way he did.  My goal is to go home every night to be with my family and i have had coworkers that have not been able to do that because of letting their guard down.  No child should be killed.  but as policeman we have to protect ourselves and these descisions have to be based on split second descisions.  people need to leave race out of this and just be humans about it.  my heart cries for the child.

THE FIRST THING EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE ASKING IS WHERE WAS THE PARENTS OF THE CHILD THAT TIME OF NIGHT? AS A PERSON WHO HAS WORKED IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE FILED FOR 10 YEARS, THE FIRST THING ON A PERSON MIND IS SAFETY AND THIS IS WHAT THE OFFICERS WAS THINKING ABOUT. THE CHILD SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT HOME GETTING READY FOR BED. THIS WAS NOT A RACE ISSUE, JUST A PROFESSIONAL OFFICER DOING THIER JOB AND FOLLOWING POLICY AND PROCEDURES. IF A PERSON HAS NOT WORKED IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE FIELD THEN THEY WILL NEVER KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SECURITY AND SAFETY.  

THE FIRST THING EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE ASKING IS WHERE WAS THE PARENTS OF THE CHILD THAT TIME OF NIGHT? AS A PERSON WHO HAS WORKED IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE FILED FOR 10 YEARS, THE FIRST THING ON A PERSON MIND IS SAFETY AND THIS IS WHAT THE OFFICERS WAS THINKING ABOUT. THE CHILD SHOULD HAVE BEEN AT HOME GETTING READY FOR BED. THIS WAS NOT A RACE ISSUE, JUST A PROFESSIONAL OFFICER DOING THIER JOB AND FOLLOWING POLICY AND PROCEDURES. IF A PERSON HAS NOT WORKED IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE FIELD THEN THEY WILL NEVER KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SECURITY AND SAFETY.  

That 'cop' should NOT be on paid leave!!! He should be in JAIL!!! How many more of our children have to killed--no I take that back--MURDERED--by the police before something changes?

And as far as the people who are on the cop's side--WHAT IF THAT HAD BEEN YOUR CHILD gunned down by a cop?!? Would you still be praising him?!?

I am outraged;yet, not surprised. In the eyes of some police officers, an African American male is the weapon and he is considered armed and dangerous even when he is not. It has always been ruled as justifiable when an officer shoots and kills an African American male. In fact, review the records of Caucasian males been killed at the hands of policer officers to the numerous shootings/killings of African American males. Then you decide if police officers of any race have the peculiar propensity to shoot to kill African American males more so than a Caucasian male.

i dont think anything is wrong with the decisiont hey made. now a days the kids are younger and younger carrying guns. it is not a race issue but as soon as a black kid or anyone black is hurt or inprisoned its a race issue because al shapten puts his 2 sense in. memphis is a black communtiy therefore you see more black people commiting crimes if i was the officer i would have done the same thing he thought it life wa sin danger why was the kid pointing a gun fake or not at an officer?? it was a bad area if it was a decent neighborhood im sure the cop would have thought twice but in an area where its not a new thing to have shooting. pretty soon were not gonna have any cops in memphis and its just gonna be crazy because there afraid that someone is gonna say he arrested me because im black!!

mrrob - what does a kid walking in the street have to do with this?? if a kid is in the road aiming a gun at you and you think hes going to shoot you you would try to get away from him dont through ignorant statements in here, your making it about race.

i dont think anything is wrong with the decisiont hey made. now a days the kids are younger and younger carrying guns. it is not a race issue but as soon as a black kid or anyone black is hurt or inprisoned its a race issue because al shapten puts his 2 sense in. memphis is a black communtiy therefore you see more black people commiting crimes if i was the officer i would have done the same thing he thought it life wa sin danger why was the kid pointing a gun fake or not at an officer?? it was a bad area if it was a decent neighborhood im sure the cop would have thought twice but in an area where its not a new thing to have shooting. pretty soon were not gonna have any cops in memphis and its just gonna be crazy because there afraid that someone is gonna say he arrested me because im black!!

mrrob - what does a kid walking in the street have to do with this?? if a kid is in the road aiming a gun at you and you think hes going to shoot you you would try to get away from him dont through ignorant statements in here, your making it about race.

Titan Girl 67 - my son knows better then to point a gun at an officer in the darkness esp in memphis! how dumb

are we gonna start talking bad and wanting all soliders in jail bc they shot then ask questions??

Hmm...let's see...
Dark outside (night-time)
Child outside (when he shouldn't be...parental responsibility)
Child points toy gun...in the dark at a police officer (hello...even my 5 & 7 year old children know better)
As senseless as this was...maybe mom should take some responsibility instead of trying to do what I see more and more people doing...placing blame ON SOMEONE ELSE!

Ms. Farrow, we love you and I personally pray for you in your time of loss, but people please, our community needs to wake up to the battle that goes much deeper than DeAunta.  

Mr. Sharpton, i'm glad to see that you're still trying to make a buck off of someone elses suffering...abusing the black man like you always do.

Community, wake to the suffering we've placed on ourselves!!!!!

If someone points a weapon at me, I am not going to take the time to ask your age,race, or anything else, if i am also holding a weapon I am going to protect myself.  Race shouldn't matter and if the officer doing the shooting had been black also it probably would'nt even be an issue.  I think Mr. Sharpton should remember to be a peace maker not someone always starting conflicts.

I think that the decision was fine & justice always prevails in things to come. Whether they were found  guilty or not guilty. I am tired of all the fighting and killing of all people any color, we need to learn to all get alone hear one earth because in the end we will all live happy together in Heaven. Everyone has let things get out of hand and I know I can speak for everyone who is a Christian that we are sick of it and this will not stop till we make it stop.

While this was a tragedy indeed, it is common sense that you do not point anything that looks like a weapon toward police officers. It was very dark that night and the officers had no way of knowing for sure whether or not the gun was real or fake.
What if the gun had been real and the officers were shot instead? I wonder if there would have been as large an outcry from the community if the officers had been shot. I doubt it very seriously. I also wonder if there would have been the same outrage from the community if a white child had been shot. I doubt it very seriously.
The citizens are responsible for their own actions. No one thinking responsibly should try and intimidate police officers, especially given the fact that there had been several robberies in that community recently. Everyone should look closer at the facts and stop trying to make this a racial issue which, unfortunately, happens all too often in the city of Memphis and West Memphis. I think the Federal Governments decision was the right one given the circumstances.

well i feel for the parents for the loss of their little boy but now day as much killing rap and ect. that is going on u can take chances and there again like someone else had said where was the parents and why was this little boy not tought better then to point a gun at anyone much less a police officer.

Its never good news to hear your child was killed, but in any case you have to sit back and look at the circumstances on this police officer, he was put in a life or death situation or so he thought and when in that line of work you have to make that quick choice me or him.  Its sad that it turned deadly and the decision made took this boys life, but it all goes back what would you do as an officer who thought a gun was being pointed at you? West memphis along with other neighborhoods are having high crime issues and this police officer was only doing his job. Do I think its best that he be let off the force why? because he did his job now how would that be justice the law tells him to protect and serve No! He only did what he was trained to do. My deepest sympathy to family and their loss, but you have to look at their situation they know their son did no harm and feel that they need justice but just b/c they seek vengence doesn't mean it is JUSTICE!  If it was my child I'd feel the exact same way so what do you do?

I do not know what you expect a policeman to do.  When a person is carrying a gun whether it is a toy or not, when the police tells you to stop, that is what it means STOP.  Police have a enough problems with children carrying guns and killing each other to take a chance on anyone even a twelve year old (some twelve year old's look like a fifteen year old).  You keep showing a picture of this child when he was in kindergarten - give me a break.  It is terrible that this child lost his life but he knew the consequence's when he did not follow orders when given.  You want to play the race card and that is getting old.  Everything is not race wake up and smell the coffee, the child was in the wrong and he paid the price even his cousin said that he had a gun even though it was a toy.  Remember, you can not tell when it is dark if the item is real or not.   If this child came up to you in the dark and ask for your wallet, do you think you are going to ask yourself is it real or is it a toy.   Give these two officers a break and be thankful they are out there trying yo protect you and your family.  No policeman want to take a life and these two officers I'm sure are sorry that this person lost his life, but if the table was turned it could have been a real gun and one or both of these men could be the one dead.  Let's all learn a lesson and move on and stop trying to make these men out to murders.   They are trying to make a living by protect YOU!!!!!  As for the NAACP stop stirring up trouble and stand for something that Dr. King would have been proud of and not always looking to to make out the worst in a situation.  As for the mother of this young man, I am sorry for your loss but God has him in his hand and he much better off than you or I.

Correct descision indeed. Children should be taught to cooperate with the authorities and they definately should not be pointing guns at them. Even a toy gun. If I'm not mistaken, Memphis is a leading city for murders and violent crime in the country. West Memphis is just accross the river, this was a high crime area. If an officer has to wait to determine if a gun pointed at him is real, it could be the last descision (or non descision) that he ever makes. The police are here to protect law biding citizens which some people seem to be "overlooking".

This is very disappointing that the police officer was cleared of killing this young child, we look every day for the law to protect us from criminals but you can't even trust the people who are sworn to up hold the law but once in that position take advantage of their power. Something must be done to over turn the goverment dicision, they make mistakes too! We must all help to stop these type of incidents all over our country.

It's a tragedy. A child is dead. Not fair at all to the family that morns him. An officer will have those memories every day. Some people judge the officer's thoughts that night. That's not fair either. If I knew the officer for a long time and saw that he was racist, and if I had been there that night and saw that he could have had time to disarm the boy, or say, "Prove to me that's not a real gun!", maybe I could judge him. But I haven't heard of anyone coming forward with any of that evidence.

All I know is that last year 138 people were murdered in Memphis (http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/06prelim/t4ok-wi.htm). And I know that each officer that works high crime areas face death every day/night. No officer in the dark, late at night, facing a drawn gun is going to do anything other than use equal force as fast as he can. Instead of judging the officer, this tragedy is a chance for our area to show compasion to the Farrow family and understanding/forgiveness to the Sammis family. Jesus, who was never treated fairly, said, "Do not judge, and you will not be judged."

 
"Pretty23 said:
I agree that this is not a race issue. However, this was a little child. He did not appear to be tall or big so there was no reason for the officer to feel threatened by this child. My question is the lack of common sense in these cases. "

uuuuhhhhh he was not a "little" child.

I am black. Black people need to stop making excuses for bad behavior and not training their children. Your child should not be walking he streets after dark.

Especially NOT in the projects.

 greg said:

uuuuhhhhh he was not a "little" child.

I am black. Black people need to stop making excuses for bad behavior and not training their children. Your child should not be walking he streets after dark.

Especially NOT in the projects.

Greg, If you would've read my last post, you will see that I already said that I was wrong for that information.

  greg said:
 
"Pretty23 said:
I agree that this is not a race issue. However, this was a little child. He did not appear to be tall or big so there was no reason for the officer to feel threatened by this child. My question is the lack of common sense in these cases. "

uuuuhhhhh he was not a "little" child.

I am black. Black people need to stop making excuses for bad behavior and not training their children. Your child should not be walking he streets after dark.

Especially NOT in the projects.


If you would have read my last post you would see that I already said I was wrong for that statement.

What happened was an accident and Justice has been served.  My condolences to the Farrow family.  I'm also in law enforcement and I just want to say circumstances like this happen and you only have a split second to react.  Put yourself in this officer's position, don't look at the color of the individual, but at the situation itself, what would you have done????  It's really sad that race is always brought up, it doesn't matter what the race is, we all bleed the same color. The officer did what he felt he had to do to protect himself and society.  A child lost his life due to this decision, it's sad but it happens.  We really need to start looking at whats real and stop living in some fairy tale life.  

Why is it every time something like this occurrs it is made a race issue. Memphis blacks need to realize that the majority of the white poplualtion is not racist, it is the black population who is racist. The officer could not see clearly at night and thought the person was holding a gun, did he know it was a child at the time? i dont know, but alot of you seem to think he did it on purpose, come do you really think he would have shot a kid on purpose! Naacp is not helping things either as they help separate blacks and whites more then ever!

I think what everyone needs to remember is that "little cute boy" in the picture is not the same child that was out in the street that night. He was 12! In the picture everyone sticks with this story he is about 5. The 12 year old was the one out on the street not the 5 year old! Have you seen 12 year olds these days...they look like adults!

The officer made the right decision. People more children have been killed by other children playing with guns than by police officers.

We (teachers,ministers,media,police officers,parents,grandparents,aunts,uncles,etc,etc,) need to instill values into the children. We need to walk the walk,and talk the talk. We like to throw around the word respect. But, in front of our children,we curse the other drivers,the public officals,and everyone else.

Unfortunately,children learn from us. They see on tv (movies,video games etc..)the only respect you get is with a GUN..

This is the kind of mentality that will always hold Memphis back. The black people in this city are the most racist people i've ever seen in a large city. Mr. Robc are you from Africa? Or were you born in the United States. If you were born in the US then your an American just like the rest of us. My family is from Hungry but do I call myself hugarian-american..no i am a american cause i was born here, if you were actually born in africa then became a us citizen then you could call yourself an afro-amercian otherwise lets all be equal and just way were americans. You people are separating yourself by calling yourself african americans right from the start! i feel sorry for the family but the cop could not see and thought the person had a gun ....it is not about race!

What I understood the boy was not walking the streets but at his apartment complex...Was there something going on that this officer had to be there for?  Yes, he does a case of being a viloent officer.  Several white people came on tv and stated this fact...He got off as one of the good ole boys....Aslo if I recall this incident happened during the summer months so he very wel could have been out in front of the house playing with his friends as many of these same said folks asking where was his moma...I am sure lots of you all were out during the summer months on your street or in front of the house playing games like Simon says, Mother may I or etc. and your mother was right in the house knowing full well she told you not to leave off the street or from in front of the house...I am sure a lot of police fear for their lives every day on the streets but so do many black folks who get stopped for driving black or because the police are looking for someone who fit the description or as some say looked like that person....No, a black person life is not as valuable as a white person's...Let a black man kill another black man and he gets six months jail time...Kill a white man and you get life.

I see that soem people get censored here whe ABC24 does not like their comments.

Frredom of Speech ring a bell?  mr robc and Plain facts deleted.

whats going on ABC24, trying to spin things one way? Why have you taken down those posting?

This is a bigger issue that someone getting their feelings hurt!

tired of memphis lofe i am born and bred in amercia and i am an african amercian my ansceators are from africa *** and for your info race matters in everything and that won't change people have built in prejudices so what are you talking about? did i call you ignorant? That shows the arrogance of some whites.

You also can paint it how you want. The kid had a plastic gun and if he was white the cop would have hesitated before firing so save that crap buddy. and people of differnt backrounds can get along all i am saying everyone should be treated equally and fair across the board but that is not reality.

and i have allways said even blacks go to far but that comes from years of being brutalized. so thank your forebeares for that and see barletmaan was right see i was deleted with plain facts if an person of color brings a promblem foward he is starting trouble but when a white person do they are just speaking there mind see no whites have been deleted and by the way hell yess a cop gotta watch his but but people you are blind if you don't look deeper and see justice is not blind she peeps around the blind fold and see what i am talking about if history serves me right the hungrians perscuted there own people so whao are u to talk also i was saying if it was about blacks being racist i found a little white kid walking in the middle of the street i got him out of the road not because he white because he was a child so why would not the cop show a black child the same courtsey

tired of memphis lofe i am born and bred in amercia and i am an african amercian my ansceators are from africa *** and for your info race matters in everything and that won't change people have built in prejudices so what are you talking about? did i call you ignorant? That shows the arrogance of some whites.

You also can paint it how you want. The kid had a plastic gun and if he was white the cop would have hesitated before firing so save that crap buddy. and people of differnt backrounds can get along all i am saying everyone should be treated equally and fair across the board but that is not reality.

and i have allways said even blacks go to far but that comes from years of being brutalized. so thank your forebeares for that and see barletmaan was right see i was deleted with plain facts if an person of color brings a promblem foward he is starting trouble but when a white person do they are just speaking there mind see no whites have been deleted and by the way hell yess a cop gotta watch his but but people you are blind if you don't look deeper and see justice is not blind she peeps around the blind fold and see what i am talking about if history serves me right the hungrians perscuted there own people so whao are u to talk also i was saying if it was about blacks being racist i found a little white kid walking in the middle of the street i got him out of the road not because he white because he was a child so why would not the cop show a black child the same courtsey

Reguardless of it being summer winter fall spring whatever weather it was a weekend it doesnt matter.  When I was 12 10:00 was most def not the time to be out of my house.  Weather he was outside his apt complex, in his yard, or walking down the street 10:00 pm is too late for a 12 year old to be out....especially in a crime ridden neighborhood.  What was his mother thinking???  Even in a decent neighborhood my child would never be out at that time....Does she not know how many child predators and other harmful people there are out there???  I know when I was a child my mother always told me to never point a toy gun or even an imaginary one made with my hands at anyone.  Thats common sense...yea sure we had water gun wars with our friends but at strangers was def a no no!!!  He was shot by a cop who was doing his job.  What if he would have been picked up and kidnapped then murderd???  Who would they put the blame on then??  Its very sad that her child was shot but the mother needs to take some responsibility for what happened.  Shes not soley to blame but she should have been watching her child.  Know where your kids are and what they are doing and use better judgement on where they go that late at night!!!!  The cop was doing his job...what if that had been a real gun and the cop had been shot b/c he thought that since the kid was 12 it was safe???  NEWS FLASH 12 year olds are doing more today than they should be!!!  They are joining gangs and using guns and committing crime just as much as the older people are!!!  Age doesnt matter anymore there are criminals of all ages!

FYI - Posts are deleted due to language not content.

u deleted me because of content what curse words did i put in the letter

  4barletmanan said:
tired of memphis lofe i am born and bred in amercia and i am an african amercian my ansceators are from africa *** and for your info race matters in everything and that won't change people have built in prejudices so what are you talking about? did i call you ignorant? That shows the arrogance of some whites.


such anger... by the way,  it's BARTLETTMAN not barletmanan.   Learn to spell in a MCS or in Arkansas?

your attitude is typical, until you get some self esteem and stop wallowing in self pity, you will never make a difference

get over it.

sure, right

I'm not gonna lie. The media fooled me. They only showed those pictures of Deaunte at age 5. I thought that those pictures were recent. I guess I'm wrong about the cop. I have always said that this was not a race issue. My prayers are with this family, but they need to realize that if in fact the child pointed a gun- fake or not - at an officer, then he could possibly be killed. This should be a lesson for all parents to watch your children closely no matter what kind of neighborhood you live in.

be careful Pretty, some people will think you are a sell-out

Blacks sold blacks in Africa! Africans persecuted there own people! we should change everyone to where there ancestors are from and not just black people,so we all can be called that! german american, irish american, african american, and so on lets split this country even more! applications should not just say african american they should say all different countries. or just say black, white, hispanic or other.  Once again this shooting is not a race issue!

Bartlettman said:

be careful Pretty, some people will think you are a sell-out


Ha, Ha. You tickle me to death.

 History said:
Blacks sold blacks in Africa! Africans persecuted there own people!

Absolutely true, this is undisputable.


So black on black crime has always been there, long before the slave trade with the US.     Seems to me that black americans should be ashamed to call themselves african americans. Is that not the same thing as choosing to call yourselves slave-americans?

tickle tickle

First off all of us African Americans don't believe this is about race. I  personally think that this was just a kid in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the wrong thing (pointing the gun). I remember when the story first hit the media, everyone was saying the cop told the kids to get down. While the other kid that young DeAunte was walking with complied, DeAunte did not. I think this goes back to just teaching your children about obedience and not letting them walk around at night regardless of if he was just going to spend the night with relatives. As a parent I would've walked with him knowing that we lived in a high crime area. I am not placing blame on the mother or the officer. However, this was just an all around tragedy. Yes, the mother will have to live with the loss of her son, but the cop will relive the events everyday of his life. My brother is a police officer in MS and had he been in the situation, I'm sure his reaction would have been the same. Please let's stop making everything about race. Can Al Sharpton and some of the others go back to working on issues that better us and not trying to get the almighty dollar.

  cmac said:
First off all of us African Americans don't believe this is about race. I  personally think that this was just a kid in the wrong place at the wrong time doing the wrong thing  

Not that you will care, but I do respect you for your comments. You are right, in every respect.

I think that some on here are finally beginning to see that I am focusing on absurb comments by trying to more absurb myself.    

Really everyone here would love me if they met me!

GUY I WANT YOU TO KNOW I MAKE MY OWN WAY IN THIS WORLD ARE U CRAZY OR SOMETHING? SEE YOU GET MAD ABOUT FACTS ON RACE. YOU CAN NOT TELL ME WHEN YOU SEE A AFRICAN AMERCIAN KID IN HIP HOP ATTIRE YOU DON'T GET NERVOUS. THE SAME AS WHEN I SEE ONE OF YOU RACIST CRACKERS I WATCH YOU LIKE A HAWK.

SIR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN A STORE AND WHEN THE CLERK SEES YOU SHE WATCHES YOU LIKE YOU ATTEMPTING TO DO THEFT EVEN IF YOU ARE DRESSED IN BIZ ATTIRE? THIS IS THE CRAP MY PEOPLE GO THROUGH DAILY. I HAVEN'T INSULTED YOU ONCE BUT YOU LEAVE A DISRESPECTFULL POST. WHAT ON EARTH DOES AFRICA HAVE TO DO WITH THIS AS WELL? YES THERE WAS INSTANCES' WHERE WEST AFRICAN BLACKS HELPED CAPTURE SLAVES BUT WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN WHEN SUPERIOR WEAPONS ARE POINTED AT YOU AND YOU ARE MADE TO OBEY?

I DON'T WALLOW IN ANYTHING THERE IS NEVER A QUESTION WHETHER THE NEGRO LOVES AMERCIA THE QUESTION IS DO AMERCIA LOVE THE NEGRO? THE ANSWER IS NO YOU ARE JUST SOME WHITE RIGHT WING NUT COMMENTING ON BLACKS YOU THINK YOU KNOW US U DON'T EVEN I TELL BLACKS I KNOW THAT DO BAD STUFF NOT TO DO IT DON'T FALL INTO CRIME BECAUSE THAT CAN ONLY PUT U INTO THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND MAKE U THE WHITES' SLAVE DUE TO U GETTING A FELONY.

U ARE RIGHT ON ONE THING A PERSON WHO FORGETS THE PAST IS DOOMED TO REPEAT IT. ALL I HAVE TRIED TO STATE IS RACE MATTERS BUT WHAT PEOPLE GOTTA KNOW IS WE DON'T HAVE TO LIKE EACH OTHER BUT WE DO GOTTA GET ALONG AND GOD HAS BLESSED ME TO DO A LLOT OF TRAVELLING AND I CAN ASSURE YOU THE EUROPEAN AND AMERCIAN WHITE SUFFER FROM THE 30PERCENT OF YOU ALL THAT ARE RACIST AND EVEN MY PEOPLE WHO ARE DUMB ENOUGH TO SERVE YOU ALL I LOVE MEMPHIS AND ALL OF YOU ALL TALKING THIS JAZZ A CHILD WAS KILLED AND HE SHOULD NOT BE DEAD BECAUSE OF THIS SILLINESS AS I MYSELF SAVED A 3YR OLD WHITE KID BECAUSE OF HIS NEGLECTFULL MAMA HE WAS WALKING AT 730AM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD SO DOES THAT MAKE ME BAD TO YOU BARLETTMAN YOU REDNECK?

SEE WE TREAT YOUR CHILDERN WITH RESPECT BUT YOU DESTROY OURS

First, why was this kid out late and by himself. Secondly, who taught this kid it's ok to point guns, toys or otherwise at the police? Thirdly, what would you say to the cops widow and children had he used "common sense" as you put it and allowed himself to take a few in the chest and head.

BIG GUY IT IS ALLWAYS ABOUT 2 THINGS FIRST MONEY THEN RACE AND YOU CAN PUT IT HOW YOU WANT WE DON'T KNOW IF THE BOY COMPLIED OR NOT WITH THE OFFICER THAT IS WHAT HE SAY..HE HAD A PREVIOUS COMPLAINT OUT OF LITTLE ROCK I KNOW A LOT OF COPS WHITE AND BLACK AND MOST NEVER FIRE A GUN

I WAS NOT THERE BUT IT SEEMS HE SHOT FIRST AND ASKED QUESTIONS LATER AND TO TAKE A LIFE WHITE BLACK BLUE OR GREEN IS A MAJOR THING. IF A BLACK EXPRESSES HIS THOUGHTS HE IS RADICAL SEE WHITES WANT YOU TO THINK HOW THEY SAY NOT HOW IT IS....YES IT WOULD BE BETTER FOR EVERYONE IF RACE WASN'T A FACTOR IN EVERYTHING BUT A TRUTHFULL PERSON WOULD ADMIT IT IS PEOPLE HAVE BUILT IN PREJUDICES THAT IS A FACT AND BARLETTMAN WHAT DO YPOU DO FOR A LIVING BESIDES WHINING ABOUT MEMPHIS? THIS IS A GREAT CITY IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT MOVE TO TIPTON COUNTY REDNECK

such anger........

I sew, I cook,  I make hats for little tiny heads.  oh and i try to tick off people.

I am real good at that last one.

"***kiss kiss***"

see you suffer from self hatred you say the black should be ashamed to call himself african amercian see you tell the italians not to call themselves italian amercians ,and the other ethinc groups the same. seems to be you want all blacks quite and docile? so boss what time you want me to pick the field and clean the cabin sir? man go play your video games or something mamas' boy


get back with me if you want to discuss real black history chump? also have a peacefull afternoon

 4BARLETTMAN said:
see you suffer from self hatred you say the black should be ashamed to call himself african amercian see you tell the italians not to call themselves italian amercians ,and the other ethinc groups the same. seems to be you want all blacks quite and docile? so boss what time you want me to pick the field and clean the cabin sir


field is picked and cabin is clean......take 10 minutes off

Blacks should not be ashamed to call themselves african americans but why not just say your a black american or white american or just americans? But if you think about this country was made from people all over the world and the black poplulation are only ones that have african in front of american?  even know u were prob born right here in memphis. the parents should have been watching that kid at time of night!

ohhh i should have known you were some gay guy!! i am cool as ice water see i learned a long time ago a man wears to faces one for racists like you and one for good white people see you treat people how u want 2b treated right

barlettman i can take 10miniutes off awww thank ya boss!!! hahaha i b a good boy boss thank ya sir see haha u prove my point have a good afternoon

feel threatened???


swish...............................

blacks hell yes his mama should have made sure he was in but do the boy deserve death for that? be real we all disobeyed our mama one way or the other should you catch a 9mm slug for it? oh yes i am a strong advocate for teaching kids reality and being responsible but you gotta know facts is facts the guy didn't hesitate because the kid was ethnic if he was white he would have got a warning shot

we as a people do gotta educate our kids in reality and do our best 2 keep them safe

BARLETTMAN YOU ARE HILARIOUS! U SAY IT LIKE A JOKKE BUT YOU MEAN IT U KNOW YOU WANNA BE SITTING ON THE STUMP WHILE I PICK YA COTTON DON' YOU BOSS AND YES I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT SWISH MEANS SEE U MAKE ME FEEL GOOD I KNOW YA KIND UNFORTUNATLY I AM RARELY WRONG

HAVE A GOOD DAY REDNECK I GOTTA GET READY TO GO TO A REAL JOB NERD

I am from Kenya, born and rasied there until I became a Citzen of America. Now I offically am an African American! For all you other blacks that were born in America be proud that you were born here but honestly people that are really from Africa get annoyned by people that want to be from my country so bad! its amazing! remember i came from a third world country , so black people from america calling themseves african americans is annoying but most of us dont say anything about it. they should go see what a third world country is really like then maybe they will understand. and africa is a continent , many countries inside still have slavery and famine is everywhere.

everyone needs to grow up.   is there not one person here that will not play the race card?

no this is memphis always will be a race card no mater what...

SASA I LIVED IN JOHHANESBURG FOR YEARS WHO ARE YOU TO SAY WE SHOULD NOT CALL OURSELVES AFRICAN AMERCIAN EVERY SINGLE BLACK IN NORTH AMERCIA IS A DIRECT DESCENDAT OF AN AFRICAN SLAVE SO WHERE IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING? WHY DO YOU ALLOW THE WHITES TO DIVIDE US? AS JOMO KENYATTA SAID AND ALSO TOM MBOYA SAID WE PEOPLE OF COLOR BLACK AND BROWN SHOULD BE AS ONE.


IF YOU WANNA SAY BLACKS ANNOY YOU TELLS ME WHY KENYA IS IN THE STATE IT IS I HAVE BEEN TO NAIROBI ELDORET AND MOMBASSA AND EVEN KISAMU SO CHECK YOURSELF SISTER I AM DESCENANTS OF WEST AFRICANS THANK GOD BECAUSE YOU KENYANS ARE BEYOND UNDERSTANDING NO WONDER THE RALIA WILL WIN

figures.......

I AGREE ALLWAYS WILL B THAT WAY PEOPLE ARE JUST LIKE THat

robc    are you mad at everyone....

swish..hugs and kisses

ol robc is going to pop a vein in his neck soon......

You have been there, thats it you did not grow up there. You came as a tourist didn't you, you have no clue what it is like. Call yourself what ever you like. But we are true africans, you on the other hand like to play like your from africa for some odd reason. Oh ya you were not even born during the slave days in the Americas and guess what there are still slaves in africa to this day!

also sister i love the usa would not trade it but i was born here this is my home but my anscetors are from africa to down to now u know how important anscetors are so why do you talk about my people in this way see i can assume u are one of those kenyans that is so happy to get a pat on the head from the whites go to a white church and suffer from the misunderstanding that the whites see you differintly

what are u a kikiyu or something? u must be the new kanu or something see kenya is a beautifull country but see the kind of colonist lovers they produce....see that is why jeff koinage ended up the way he did u people hate being black instead of embracing it. hell sister even with all our promblems i love my black african amercian skin learn to love yours pls.

sister i lived in johhanesburg i am married to a khalijean now w u are not a true african because u deny people who look like you and embrace u get on out to bellevue church sell out if u are a true african when the last time u been home? why u give up your kenyan passport for amercian citizenship kenya don't allow dual citizenship!! so who the true afrcian sellout i am from memphis so what u saying no wonder the whites took over africa and took slaves uyour anscetors proably helped them kikiyu

yeah sister my ansceators are from africa i am from this area so what is the deall sellout

robc is spacing out.........

should i call 911?

i told u that u were suffering from that homo jean one thing the rednecks right about u homo's are hilarioue u good people proably down under i never will pop a vein u count on that buddy look man get on out to bellevue and pastor steve lay hands on you hahhaa

What are you talking about? I came here for graduate school then landed a career with a large company that fuels the Memphis economy! I love my country and I visit home every year. I don't understand why you are bashing my country. I did not say one bad thing about America. I love America also and it is my new home, what is wrong with that? Learn how to spell also Mr. robc!

I WILL NOT SPACE OUT BUDDY AM COOKING MY LUNCH FOR WORK BUDDY WHAT ARE U DOING PLAYING WITH YOUR DOLLS? HAHA HEY MAN JUST LAYING DOWN THE FACTS FROM MY VIEWPOINT I CHECKED THE SISTER BECAUSE THAT KIND OF THINKING HOLDS THE PEOPLE OF COLOR BACK I DONT CARE TRULY IF THE WHITE MAN DON'T LIKE MAN ALL I ASK IS DON'T PUT ROADBLOCKS IN MY WAY BECAUSE OF COLOR A LEVEL PLAYING FEILD IS WHAT IS NEEDED AND YES SOME BLACKS NEED TO STOP COMPLAING AND SIMPLY DO


EVEN I GET TIRED OF PEOPLE COMPLAING ABOUT THE WHITE BUT WON'T DO ANYTHING I GET ALONG WITH EVERYONE I ONLY WIG OUT WITH JUST BLANTANT RACISM MOSTLY I FEEL THE TYPICAL RACIST CAN'T DEAL WITH ME SO AS LONG AS HE OR SHE STAY IN THERE RESPECTIVE PLACES I COULD CARE LESS WHAT THEY THINK OR DO JUST LET ME LIVE BABY IS WHAT I SAY I KEEP MY YARD AND PROPERTY UP SO WHY BOTHER ME HAHAHA

 Ms. Africa American  he has lost it.  that vein just popped,


(((roadblock))))) for robbie  

whats for dinner rob?  can I come over?    I'll give you a back rub

SISTER WHAT GRADUATE SCHOOL U CAN INSULT ME ALL U WANT U INSULTED MY PEOPLE AND I CHECKED YOU ALSO U STILL DIDN'T ANSWER WHY U GAVE UP YOUR KENYAN CITIZENSHIP? SEE I WOULD NEVER GIVE UP MY AMERCIAN PASSPORT! SEE I MIGHT COMPLAIN BUT I LOVE THIS COUNTRY


IF U LOVE KENYA WHY AREN'T U USING YOUR SKILLS AT HOME? SO U ARE THE SELLOUT FAKE AFRCIAN AMERCIAN SEE I RETURNED HOME FROM JOBURG BUT YOU AFRCIANS COME HERE AND STAY TAKING UP JOBS THAT SHOULD BE FOR USA BORN ONLY SEE AMERCIANS CAN'T GO TO KENYA AND BE TREATED WITH THE RIGHTS U HAVE HERE SO WHY DO YOU COME HERE AND EXPECT THE SAME KIKIYU U ALSO CAN INSULT MY SPELLING BUT I AM A TRUE AFRICAN AMERCIAN

GET ON OUT TO BELLUVE PUMBUVU CLEAN THE WHITE MAN TOILETS SLAVE

KEEP YOUR GAY BACK RUBS I WILL BE NICE TO YOU BUT I DON'T HANG WITH FECAL FREAKS SORRY BARLETTMAN HEAD ON DOWN TO OVERTON PARK BOOTY PIRATE U STILL COOL WITH ME THOUGH

I LIVED IN AFRICA AM MARRIED TO ONE....MS AFRICAN AMERCIAN IS TYPICAL WHY PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE DOWN AND WILL STSY DOWN UNLESS WE LOVE OURSELVES FIRST U SEE SHE WON'T ANSWER WHY SHE GAVE UP HER KENYAN CITIZENSHIP? HER BIRTH COUNTRY DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TOO HOLD BOTH PASSPORTS

KEEP YOUR GAY BACK RUBS I WILL BE NICE TO YOU BUT I DON'T HANG WITH FECAL FREAKS SORRY BARLETTMAN HEAD ON DOWN TO OVERTON PARK BOOTY PIRATE U STILL COOL WITH ME THOUGH

I LIVED IN AFRICA AM MARRIED TO ONE....MS AFRICAN AMERCIAN IS TYPICAL WHY PEOPLE OF COLOR ARE DOWN AND WILL STSY DOWN UNLESS WE LOVE OURSELVES FIRST U SEE SHE WON'T ANSWER WHY SHE GAVE UP HER KENYAN CITIZENSHIP? HER BIRTH COUNTRY DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TOO HOLD BOTH PASSPORTS

So now you say BE FOR USA BORN ONLY SEE AMERCIANS oh where is the african american in that. Your not a true african american and you know it. I was born there then got citizenship here so what is that called??? Who says I can't give up american citizenship and go back to Kenya? I got this career because of my education and foreign language abilites in which my company operates worldwide. My family is here and I love my job.

such anger.....meditate.....ooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

see you at overton

HEY PUMBAVU I ONLY CLAIM MY AFRICAN ANSCETORY AND I WAS BORN HERE SO I AM A NATIVE BORN AMERCIAN OF AFRICAN ANCESTORY WITH ALL YOUR EDUCATION U CAN'T GRASP THAT

U WON';T GIVE UP YOUR UNDESERVED AMERCIAN CITIZENSHIP THAT IS THE GOLD STANDARD FROM THERE AND WHY SHOULD I GET MAD AT YOU I SHOULD REMEMBER YOUR PEOPLE ARE TRIBAL AND FOOLISH GOD HAS GRANTED YOUR PEOPLE SELF RULE FROM THE WHITES AND WHAT U PEOPLE DO DESTROY A WONDERFULL COUNTRY IF YOU REALLY CARE ABOUT KENYA WHY YOU NOT HOME AND AS PRESIDENT KIBAKI SAY KENYA FOR KENYANS SO USA SHOULD BE FOR AMERCIANS

COME TOGETHER SISTER WITH THE PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THEN WE ALL AS A WHOLE CAN HEAL THE BLACK AND BROWN NATIONS AND ONLY THEN CAN WE DEAL ON A LEVEL PLAYING FEILDS WITH THE WHITES AND U STILL A SELLOUT A TRUE CITIZEN WOULD NEVER GIVE UP YOUR BIRTH COUNTRY CITIZENSHIP

IF U SEE ME EVER AT OVERTON IT WILL BE AT THE RESURRACTION I TOLD YOU I DON'T DO FECAL FREAKS AND U COOL BUT U STILL GAY AND RACIST HAHAHA

Bartlettman, leave him alone. It is obvious that he has issues. Be nice.

AM COOL UNCLE JED I HAVE NO BEEF WITH YOU SIR......I LIVE IN REALITY SIR ONLY RESPONDING TO WHAT U SAID NOTHING MORE U REALLY INSULTING ME BUT I WILL LET IT GO I DO BELEIVE PEOPLE CAN THINK WHAT THEY WANT DON'T GET MAD AT ME SOMETIMES I AM A BAD SPELLER BUT IGIVE MY VIEW I KNOW THE UNCLE TOM NEGRO AND WHITE MAN HATE IT BUT SO WHAT AND YES I KEEP MY DISTANCE FROM GAYS THEY DO THERE THING I DO MINE

This is a TRAGEDY and it’s a shame that the black community has turned this into a racial issue.  Everyday police officers are required to make life and death decisions.  And unfortunately, in today’s society 12 year old kids have guns and shoot people.  This is a fact that cannot be denied.  The police officers have to consider their lives and their families as well.  At the end of the day they want to go home alive and in one piece.  Has anyone thought of what these officers and their families are going through?  No matter the outcome their lives are forever changed by this tragedy and it will follow and haunt them for the rest of their lives.  Also, let’s reverse this situation.  If this had been black officers that shot and killed a white boy the situation wouldn’t have warranted the attention this has received.  There would be no marches or visits from Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson if this had happened to a white child.  

One last thing…why was this child running around and playing outside at 10:30 pm?  I understand this happened during the summer, but these kids had no business running around at that time of night.  My godchildren are older than he was, live in a safer city and neighborhood, but are not allowed outside after dark (with the rare exception of the 4th of July).  Actually, you won’t find any of the kids in their neighborhood running around after dark.  By no means am I saying this child deserved dying because he was out playing or any other reasons.  It just comes back to the fact this was a tragedy and nothing more.  

THIS is MEMphrica . memphis will always be a racist city no matter what. the kid should not have been outside at that time of night. but of course his parents did not know or did not care. this is what is wrong with the popluation in memphis ..parents are just as bad as the kids. why do u think crime is so bad in memphis? and most of it is black on black crime and that is a fact. even black people are moving out of memphis, and i dont blame them. but dont bring that crime with u!!!

Why doesn't the news provide a picture of the 12 YEAR OLD child?  I keep seeing the picture of a small child in a kindergarten graduation cap.  This is another example of stirring up issues among races in Memphis.  The bottom line is that the responsibility for this tragedy stops at the parents who allowed this child out at that time of night.  Why did the 12 YEAR OLD not drop the gun when instructed to do so?  There is such a thing as the age of accountability and he had reached the age that he should have known that pointing a gun (real or not) at a police officer might be a stupid thing to do.  Sharpton and the rest of the African-American leaders have no business in Memphis stirring up racial tension.  The point is that this is another example of failing to accept responsibility for a breakdown in properly parenting and supervising children-not a case of the white policeman versus the small, innocent black child.  There is no racism here, just an attempt to justify more racial strife in the south at the expense of this child's family.  Justice was served in the decision of the justice department and the state should be ashamed of itself if they find any different.

see what u said don't bring the crime so u racist crackers don't do crime huh?

do the words racist and cracker offset each other?  Obviously, your left your education at the door.  If race is an issue for you, then obviously you will continue in the mindset of a poor, uneducated individual who knows no better than to blame the past for your present failures.

Am I the only one that is having trouble deciphering comments?

This is a tragedy and white or black, if I was the parent I would sue just to depose the officer. It is about the only way you would get to sit face to face and find out what happened.

But as far as the black outrage.  Blacks need to get a clue.  As I said earlier 2500 people - more or less - have been killed since the last kid holding a fake gun was killed by a cop in the Memphis area.  They were mostly black and killed mostly by blacks.  2500 people versus one.  There is a disturbing inability in the black community to confront the real problems confronting them. It is past disturbing, it literally freaks whites out.

Blacks are ten times more violent than the rest of society.  Start there.  Unfortunately it is entirely believable a 12 y/o would be carrying a gun.

the majority of crime in memphis is committed by blacks, yes whites and hispanics also commit crime but not at the rate of blacks! it is unreal .i've never seen a city like this before, well i take that back detroit and atlanta are about the same as memphis. people in this city have no respect for law or police and therefore crime will take this city over as it is doing now.

west memphis force is mess up starting with the mayor and chief and bad cops  iam not talking about nothing but a bad force here and it;s gonna stop this child shouldnt been killed but they think that they dont have to follow rules and procedures  but if this follow we wouldnt have negative things thats going on in the circus court and with the police force turning into horror ive read all kind of things that got me where i dont want to hear or read the media broad cast you have to see them in action just to believe it this is no police force they go out and what they want to do and lie and most of the supervisor on duty is horror this baby killer dont have in remorse and neither do the mayor the chief or there crew i ve so unbelievable thing with this police crew and there terrriable supporter

everybody get sick everybody have to died when you live a hatre life whole on to this there is a god who have the last say so when things happen we ask why dont because that bad person one day gonna ask why and its gonna be ten times worst

u say i am poor and uneducated i live well redneck and i am just fine see when a black expresses an idea the whites don't like they insult him see some dumb whites as yourself prove your hatred for other ethnic groups become clear

That grouping of words you just call a response only proves your inability to put together a coherent argument (or sentence for that matter).  I didn't insult your racial background, however your ignorant, racial views are more than apparent.  You could not even respond under your own screen name.  Once again, you have strayed off the point of this discussion by making it about race.  It is ignorant, uneducated people like you (regardless of race) that have no place in any public discussion because you reduce it to a playground-type brawl.  As for your education status, I can only hope (from the grammar and spelling in your response) that you seek out some of the publicly-funded education programs that rednecks like me pay for to assist you in filling out that McDonald's application.

For those trying to make it a racial issue...take the cops off the streets and see how many blacks die!  Blacks kill more blacks than anything else on earth.  Go rob a store with a water gun and see what you get charged with...ARMED ROBBERY!  The boy was shot for pointing a gun (toy or not) at an officer who feared for his life.  THAT'S IT!    Most importantly, look at the demographics and statistics and tell me the truth about the real problem. I SAY AGAIN, "TELL THE TRUTH"!

Whether you think the officer was wrong for shooting the child or not, you must acknowledge that THIS decision by the feds was right.  This is not a civil rights case.  DeAunta was not shot because he was black; he was shot because the officer felt threatened.  There is absolutely no evidence that race had anything at all to do with this incident, as unfortunate as it is, so how can you chastise the Justice Department for making the wrong decision.  All that was decided was that this is not a civil rights issue, not that the officer was not guilty of murder.  That is still being investigated.  Now, as for my two cents on the issue of the officer's guilt in the killing of DeAunta, I don't believe that he should go to jail for this.  He was acting out of self-defense.  It was dark and DeAunta was pointing what the officer thought was a gun at him (whether it was or not).  I think the real tragedy is why was this child out that late at night?  From what I understand he was playing outside when this happened.  Was he not wanted in the apartment?  Did he not want to be in there with his family?  We don't know; all we know is that because of that this terrible situation occurred.  Some of you want punishment for the officer.  He's having to live with the fact that he shot an innocent 12-year-old.  That's got to be terrible.

diz 4 da person who commented after me..
u say how
letz see how
wat if dat wouldhve been yur child datz how.
alyea MZ FARROW WAZ N STILL A GOOD PARENT
PPL ALWAYZ TALKIN ABOUT SHE WAZ A BAD PARENT BUT YALL DNT EVEN KNO HER
MZ FARROW A GOOD FRIEND OF MY MOTHER .IZ A GREAT MOTHER.
MZ FARROW IZ 1 OF DA COOLEST PERSON ND A WORLD...
AND YEA DIZ COMIN 4RM 18 OLDER... A GOOD FRIEND OF MZ. FARROW.
I BE BAC 2MOR

U KNOW REDNECK I PAY TAXES YOU SEEM TO BE THE TYPE OF PERSON THAT HIDES BEHIND A PUBLIC BOARD I AM MAN ENOUGH TO REVEL MY TRUE SELF I DON'T HIDE BEHIND AN ALIAS! SO YOU CAN SPOUT OFF AT ME ALL YOU WANT IT SEEMS YOU ARE THE LESS ENLIGHTNED ONE.

APPARANTLY YOU SEEM TO LIVE IN A WHITE FANTASY WORLD RACE MATTERS ALLWAYS HAVE ALLWAYS WILL. ANYTIME AN AFRICAN-AMERCIAN EXPRESSES A THOUGHT RACIST ARROGRANT PIGS LIKE YOU THAT HIDE BEHIND RADIO TALK SHOW HOSTS LIKE MIKE FLEMING AND  THIS BOARD WON'T BE A MAN AND SHOW YOURSELF IF YOU TRULY FEEL WHAT YOU SAYING IS RIGHT SAY WHO YOU ARE. I WAS ALLWAYS TAUGHT BE A MAN AND STAND BEHING WHAT YOU SAY AND DO.

A COWARD IS WHAT YOU ARE SIR. I COME FROM A TWO-PARENT FAMILY DO YOU? SIR YOU SOUND LIKE SOME TRALIER PARK TRASH TRYING TO ACT MORE SMART THAN YOU ARE. ANYTIME YOU FEEL MAN ENOUGH TO CONFRONT ME LIKE YOU GOT SOME SENSE LET ME KNOW OTHERWISE BUZZ OFF PUNK IF YOU KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND IF YOU FEEL WE ARE THE PROMBLEM BE A MAN AND DO SOMETHING OR DO YOU WANT US ALL PICKING YOUR COTTON BOSS?

ALSO HOW IS THIS FOR A GROUPING OF WORDS? I AM A MAN YOU ARE A BOY. I TAKE RESPONSBILITY FOR EVERYTHING I DO. I HAVEN'T WORKED FOR MICKY D'S SINCE I WAS 16 AND I AM FROM A GOOD FAMILY.

I CAN BET THE BANK YOU ARE SOME FAT REDNECK DRINKING BUD WITH NICKLEBACK ON THE RADIO. YOU ARE REALLY A FACIST. THIS IS THE USA BUDDY I WOULD NEVER SAY SOMEONE SHOULDN'T MAKE A PUBLIC COMMENT. SEE WHAT ARE YOU? SOME CLOSET HOMOSEXUAL SMARTY PANTS? IS THAT PLAYGROUND ENOUGH FOR YOU? YOU HATE THE BLACKS IN MY VIEW BECAUSE YOU SECRETLY FEAR US. GO ON DOWN TO OVERTON PARK HOMO ONE OF THE BUBBA'S WILL MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER HOMO.

MZ FARROW WAZ AT WORK MZ K ND 4 EVERYBODI SAY TA TA HAD A GUN HOW DO YALL KNO DAT TA TA HAD A TOY GUN. POLICES DO LIE!!!!!!!!!!
ND ERIC KNO HE WAZ WRONG HE GOTZ 2 LIVE WIT DIZ 4 DA RESS OF HIZ LIFE
ND DA CHIEF SAYZ MOVE ON HOW CAN WE MOVE ON???

I SEE WHITE CHILDERN OUT AT ALL TIMES OF NIGHT IF I SEE ONE OF THEM WITH A SUPERSOAKER THAT CAN LOOK LIKE A SHOTGUN SHOULD I PUT A 7.62 ROUND IN ONE OF THEM I GUESS I SHOULD JOIN THE FORCE TO TEST THAT THEORY? ALL CHILDERN SHOULD BE TREATED EQUALLY BUT RACIST KNUCKLEHEADS LIKE YOU ARE SUCH HYPOCRITES YOU WANT THE BLACKS TO STAY QUITE AND DOCILE SO YOU DON'T FEEL THREATHNED AND YOU RIGHT ABOUT ONE THING...IT IS WAY 2MUCH BLACK ON BLACK CRIME

I ALLWAYS SAY DON'T ROB ME ROB THAT CRACKER THAT ROBS YOU BY SENDING THE DRUGS TO YOUR COMMUNITY SEE I KNOW THE WHITES TRICKS I WOULD NEVER PARTICPATE IN THOSE ACTIVITES I HAVE NO DESIRE TO BE IN THE SYSTEM AND BECOME THE MASTERS' ***.

THE PEN IS THE NEW COTTON FIELD AND ANY BLACK THAT GETS HIS SELF IN THIS GANGSTER CULTURE IS A FOOL THAT IS YOU DEVILS' WAY OF MAKING A PERSON BLACK OR HISPANIC A SLAVE. MOST BLACKS ARE WAY HARDER ON CROOKS THAN YOU PEOPLE KNOW AS WE SAY WE KNOW THE BAD WHITES ARE THE ENEMY BUT BROTHER DON'T YOU BE THE ENEMY AS WELL.

AMEN BROTHER AMEN

I FEEL THAT IF THE SITUATION WAS DIFFERENT AND A BLACK POLICE WOULD'VE KILLED 12 YEAR OLD WHITE CHILD THEY WOULD'VE   BEING  IN JAIL NOW AND FIRED ALL I AM SAYING IS JUSTICE NEED TO BE SERVE CUZ SHOULD NO CHILD BE KILLED BY NO POLICE BLACK OR WHITE . AND ALSO IF THE POLICE WAS HAVING A STAKE -OUT THE RESIDENT IN STEEPLE CHASE APARTMENT SHOULD'VE BEEN TOLD TO BE  CAREFUL CUZ THEY A HAD PROBLEM AND THEY WAS  STAKE-OUT THE FLASH MARKET STORE

"I ALLWAYS SAY DON'T ROB ME ROB THAT CRACKER "

"THAT CRACKER THAT ROBS YOU BY SENDING THE DRUGS TO YOUR COMMUNITY "

"WE KNOW THE BAD WHITES ARE THE ENEMY "

comments of a true racist

THANK U "4DERRICK"

I AM NOT TRYING TO BE RACIST BUT IT'S JUST EVERYTIME SOMETHING HAPPEN TO ONE OF OUR KIDS THE FIRST  THING WE HEAR IS WE WASN'T NOT A GOOD PARENT OR OUR CHILDREN ARE SELLING DRUGS OR IN A GANG BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE CUZ EVERYBODY IS NOT THE SAME AND PEOPLES ARE TRYING TO PUT DEBRA DOWN BY SAYING WHERE WAS SHE AT IT DOESN'T MATTER WATS MATTER IS JUSTICE NEEDS TO BE SERVE ALL OF THIS MAKE ME THINK ABOUT WHEN RONALD WARD WAS CHARGE FOR THE MURDER OF THOSE FAMILY HIS JUSTICE AND CIVIL RIGHT WAS TAKEN FROM HIM IF WE ONLY WOULD'VE STAND UP FROM HIM MAYBE ALL WRONG DOING THESE THAT THE PEOPLE WHO SUPPOSE TO SERVE AND PROTECT US WON'T BE HAPPENING TO US NOW. BUT ONE THING ABOUT THIS GOD SEE ALL THINGS AND IF EVERYONE BELIEVE IN GOD HE WOULD MAKE SURE JUSTICE IS SERVE CUZ ONE OF HIS BABY WAS TAKEN AND TA-TA WAS A CHILD OF GOD.

First of all His mother has blew out of paportion. Yes..I understand the loss of a son must be crushing. But you cant tell me that a 12 year old kid is not capable of shooting a police officer. The officer in my oppion had probable cause..reason #1 He didn't know if the gun he had was real or fake #2 It was at night which makes this situation even harder #3 The police officer said that he was pointing it at him. For all those reasons the Cop had no other choice. Police Officers are told to shoot only when they feel that there life is being threatened. If this would of happen to a 35 year man..and this had happened the exact same way, there would have been no question over this. This question in this case isn't racial,it is there any difference between a 35 year old man with a gun or a 12 year old kid with a gun. Absolutley not, to put a police officer in jail for protecting his life is probally the most stupid thing I have ever heard.

who said the little brother was a threat

to bartlettmags if this wold've have bee your child will you feel this way no you will the same way you would want justice

i understand

do yall ever listen to rovers morning glory?? awhile back they had a black man call in and say that he cant get a job anywhere bc hes black and its always a race issue so rover offered him a job he only had to work 2 days 3hrs a day and he would make $400 the black guy said well i dont have a way to get there so i cant rover said he will have a company car come and pick him up and take him shom for free the black guy said well ive had back problems and i have a drs apt this week and i cant do it so rover raised the amount he would pay him still the black guy made and excuse. rovers whole point int he beggining was that black ppl think they should get hired bc they are black and if a white man comes in with experience and a black man comes in with none they should hire the black man bc he wants to work?? how does that make sense jsut like lovely al sharpten saying he was gonna sue a baseball team bc thye had only 1 black team member they needed more and like the coach and managers said they dont pick on race they pick on talent.. what about basketball who do you see mainly in basketball blacks. maybe there should be a white quota that they have to meet. nope bc they will aregue that basketball is a black sport blah blah. baseball is a white and hispanic sport mainly. i thinks its bs when blacks think they should get everything handed to them like they have college funds and tv channels "bet" youd ont see a "wet" if we had that we would be racist is we had an orginazation to help out white people we would be racist its bull crap. and the memphis blacks are the worst ive ever seen no wonder its the number one crime capital. and i loved it when thoose 2 ladies were on tv and said they only voted for harrenton bc he was black dont you love hwo the blacks think!!

a 12 year boy iz capable BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIZ 12 YEAR BOY HAD GOOD CITIZENSHIP 2 N PLUZ HE NEVER MISS A DAY OF HIZ 6TH GRADE SKOOL YEAR.
TELL ME DIZ 12 YEAR OLD BOI WOULD EXACTLY POINT A GUN @ A OFFICER HE KNO BETTA. AND ALYEA POLICES DO LI3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Y ERIC HAVNT A SAID HE SORRY FOR IF DIZ WAS SUPPOSE 2BE A ACCIDENT?????
IM WAITING!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!????????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????!!!!!!!
MZ FARROW ND HER FAMILY NEED JUSTICE

this is not a race issue put the dang race card away and use it for somehting else this was a dumb child waving a gun at a police officer and he got what he deserved he was just gonna grow up and be in a gang anyways - arent all blacks who live in memphis??

derrik: why must you talk like you have no ittelegence?? diz kno betta 2be mz li3 .. someone needs to go back to school!! you wonder why people think bad of blacks maybe if you spoke correctly!

tiredof memphis life man you got promblems.....why do you insult derrick? do you think it is wise to try to find fault in everything blacks do? hell a lot of people in the south white and black talk in that fashion on the  'net and in person your arrogance is loud and clear where you want all of us boss.....picking your cotton or something good sir?? oh by the way your kind can only talk trash on a board but you cowards would never say these things in the prsence of a black so get your manhood up a bit before you try to talk trash

hold on u spell something wronG who need
2 go bac 2 school???
i kno my proper grammer almos everybody on here talkin lik diz.
u say u tiredof memhis life leave den.
nd tata wasnt no dumb child .
u must be eric or eric dirt off da button of his shoez. which 1 u pick
u spell my name wrong u musthve took resource or something....YO BIG DUMMY!!!!
U MAKIN ME MAD CALLIN DIZ CHILD DUMB 2.
DO U KNO U TALKIN ABOUT SUM1 WHOSE DEAD
WATZ A RACE CARD??? U RACIST.
E N 1 WHO THINK DIZ DIRT OFF ERIC SHOE KNO HE WRONG LET HIM NALL IT KNO
NO RACIST BUT EVERY SKIN COLOR JOIN GANGS
I KNO WHITES TRYIN BE BLACK RIGHT NOW
N TATA WASNT KNO GANG MEMBER EITHER HE WAS A GOOD CHILD
N Y U SO MAD @ HIM HE DID NOTHIN TO U
JUST REMERBER U TALKIN TALKIN ABOUT A CHILD WHOSE UP DER WIT GOD NOW!!!
I GONNA PRAY 4 U

THANK U ROBC
HE GOT A NEW NAME NOW
DA DIRT OFF ERIC SHOE

haha no promblem anytime

wow. you just proved how ignorant and the lack of intellegence you have. what are you like 12? a race card sweeheart i when black people say everyhting is a race issue. you are the only person on here typing that way, its very annoying and nobody can take you serious when you type like that. i would gladly leave memphis but my husbands job is here. one day you ignorant people will make everyone leave and memphis will be one big ghetto, its already going down hill. it once was a nice area but pretty soon its gonna be one big gang area and noone will want to come and visit and noone will want to live here. just becasue ignorant people like you wanna try and be all big and badass. your prolyl some little 12 year old boy trying to prove himself.

i love how both of you are pulling that race card again, it had nothing to do with him being black that i calle dhim out and noone said anything about picking cotton what does slavery have to do with this?? maybe you should go back and study your history black people sold black people to whites in america so how do you know your not a decendent from a person who sold slaves??

are you really that stupid...since the blacks so bad as you say tell your husband to get a transfer jeez....are you one of thos pill popping sex starved housewives? hell go take a valium and by the way you make claims about black people an slavery so you send me your historical evidence!! and i will send you mine showing the wickdness of you people

YOU GOT TO BE STUPID YOUR SELF TO BE ANGRY AT A CHILD FOR SPEAKING HIS MIND OR MAKING A COMMENT AND NO NO HE'S NOTUNEDUCATED  MAYBE YOU ON SOMETHING AND I SEE YOU R VERY RACIST SINCE YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY WHATABOUT  YOU JUMPING INTO OTHER SUBJECT IF U  HAVE SO MUCH BOOKS SENSE YOU CAN'T GET WORDS THIS YOUNG MAN  IS SAYING MAYBE YOU NEED GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND SINCE YOU TIRED OF MEMPHIS TRY HILLBILLIES I KNOW THEY CAN USE YOU THERE AND ALSO I WILL PRAY FOR CUZ I SEE YOU DON'T HAVE CARING IN YOUR HEART ABOUT A CHILD GETTING KILLED AND HOW  CAN SAY THAT A BABY TRYING TO PROVE HE'S SELF TO WHO THIS  A BABY WE TALKING ABOUT CAUSE HE WAS OUTSIDE AT NIGHT HOW YOU KNOW HE WASN'T TAKING OUT THE TRASH THEN THIS IN JUNE KIDS ARE OUT OF SCHOOL HE COULD BEEN COMING BACK FROM THE MOVIES OR BOWLING MAYBE SOMEONE DROP HIM OFF ON THE CORNER FROM HIS AUNT HOUSE YOU DON'T KNOW  SO PROVE THAT WAT LAW SAID A CHILD CAN'T COME OUTSIDE IT JUST SOME BETTER PRECISER SHOULD BEEN HANDLE I SURE HATE IF YOU WERE A  JUDGE OR WITNESS A BLACK PERSON WOULDN'T STAND A CHANCE  WITH YOU

YOU GOT TO BE STUPID YOUR SELF TO BE ANGRY AT A CHILD FOR SPEAKING HIS MIND OR MAKING A COMMENT AND NO NO HE'S NOTUNEDUCATED  MAYBE YOU ON SOMETHING AND I SEE YOU R VERY RACIST SINCE YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY WHATABOUT  YOU JUMPING INTO OTHER SUBJECT IF U  HAVE SO MUCH BOOKS SENSE YOU CAN'T GET WORDS THIS YOUNG MAN  IS SAYING MAYBE YOU NEED GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND SINCE YOU TIRED OF MEMPHIS TRY HILLBILLIES I KNOW THEY CAN USE YOU THERE AND ALSO I WILL PRAY FOR CUZ I SEE YOU DON'T HAVE CARING IN YOUR HEART ABOUT A CHILD GETTING KILLED AND HOW  CAN SAY THAT A BABY TRYING TO PROVE HE'S SELF TO WHO THIS  A BABY WE TALKING ABOUT CAUSE HE WAS OUTSIDE AT NIGHT HOW YOU KNOW HE WASN'T TAKING OUT THE TRASH THEN THIS IN JUNE KIDS ARE OUT OF SCHOOL HE COULD BEEN COMING BACK FROM THE MOVIES OR BOWLING MAYBE SOMEONE DROP HIM OFF ON THE CORNER FROM HIS AUNT HOUSE YOU DON'T KNOW  SO PROVE THAT WAT LAW SAID A CHILD CAN'T COME OUTSIDE IT JUST SOME BETTER PRECISER SHOULD BEEN HANDLE I SURE HATE IF YOU WERE A  JUDGE OR WITNESS A BLACK PERSON WOULDN'T STAND A CHANCE  WITH YOU

YOU GOT TO BE STUPID YOUR SELF TO BE ANGRY AT A CHILD FOR SPEAKING HIS MIND OR MAKING A COMMENT AND NO NO HE'S NOTUNEDUCATED  MAYBE YOU ON SOMETHING AND I SEE YOU R VERY RACIST SINCE YOU HAVE SO MUCH TO SAY WHATABOUT  YOU JUMPING INTO OTHER SUBJECT IF U  HAVE SO MUCH BOOKS SENSE YOU CAN'T GET WORDS THIS YOUNG MAN  IS SAYING MAYBE YOU NEED GO BACK TO SCHOOL AND SINCE YOU TIRED OF MEMPHIS TRY HILLBILLIES I KNOW THEY CAN USE YOU THERE AND ALSO I WILL PRAY FOR CUZ I SEE YOU DON'T HAVE CARING IN YOUR HEART ABOUT A CHILD GETTING KILLED AND HOW  CAN SAY THAT A BABY TRYING TO PROVE HE'S SELF TO WHO THIS  A BABY WE TALKING ABOUT CAUSE HE WAS OUTSIDE AT NIGHT HOW YOU KNOW HE WASN'T TAKING OUT THE TRASH THEN THIS IN JUNE KIDS ARE OUT OF SCHOOL HE COULD BEEN COMING BACK FROM THE MOVIES OR BOWLING MAYBE SOMEONE DROP HIM OFF ON THE CORNER FROM HIS AUNT HOUSE YOU DON'T KNOW  SO PROVE THAT WAT LAW SAID A CHILD CAN'T COME OUTSIDE IT JUST SOME BETTER PRECISER SHOULD BEEN HANDLE I SURE HATE IF YOU WERE A  JUDGE OR WITNESS A BLACK PERSON WOULDN'T STAND A CHANCE  WITH YOU

THANKS FOR SPEAKING UP FOR THAT KID. CUZ NOT ONLY WAS A CHILD LIFE TAKING BUT PEOPLE RESPECT HAS BEEN TAKING EVERYWHERE YOU GO THEY ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE A BLACK BASKETBALL PLAYER OR RAPPER DON'T STAND A CHANCE IN THIS COMMUNITY.CUZ EVERY TIME SOMETHING HAPPEN TO A BLACK STAR THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO GET KNOCK DOWN AND I AM NOT RACIST THIS IS THE TRUTH/

well i kno thanq u went out of line callin him dum.
an tel yur so called husband 2 hurry up nd find a new job
U dnt even kno him u but remember diiz wen u called ta ta dum 2 me u wuz sayin  he desserve it OR sumthin.
on june 18 tata didnt ask 2 get killd it jus happen.
nd 4 callin him dat u do got a problem
nd u will alwayz be
DA DIRT OFF ERIC SHOE

my fault june da 22

Robc are you and Derrick "good friends"? (wink)

***BANG***


now put that gun down

Are you speaking in ebonics?  Good Lord, learn to speak some English.

was ta-ta a crip, blood or gd name?    

Not down on my gangs, but all those friends, etc. who came to his funeral wore RED in his honor.  Does that help?

see for all you whites making these comments about a child only shows what black people allready know......you whites hiding behind all these alias are cowards and racist be men say who you really are......see to accuse a dead child of being a gangbanger shows the lack of real class some of you whites have to allways assume blacks are thugs. thats just like if my people assume all of you whites are child abusers and child molestors. you know the facts bear out that your people have a pre-dispostion for that type of thing check out any sex offender list and the history books

you know and the way your kids call mommy and daddy bad words in the store so you devil type people get yourself right

a blood

lets see a picture of TaTa at age 12

I have always wondered if he was a "banger in training" and failed training

better a gang banger than some peodphile in training like the average white kid playing with his sister

hey man they let you up off your knee in overton park you know you whites love that homosexual stuff

And that thought is a legit thought. He was in an area that gang activity was prevelant, he was the age that gangs start to recruit. The has never been any pictures of him shown, to my knowledge, except the one in the cap and gown, and the one on mama's shirt. If he was a banger in training, he would have probably shown contempt for the law, and was not old and experinced enough to know that what he was doing may turn out bad. Was he carrying a toy gun to try to scare off bangers, trying to be a good boy, that too may be the case.  In any case, the people that have the most blame in this is, mama, the absent dad (assumption here since he has never once been mentioned) and the gangs.

I agree let's see a picture of what he looked like this year, not when he was in kindergarten.  People can claim all day long that the photo the media keeps showing was from this year, but how many 12 year old kids have their pictures made with a cap & gown holding a diploma.  For the most part that is something they only do in kindergarten or sometimes for Seniors.

Robc,

you are not smart enough to figure out that I am pulling you chain to see you rant. Maybe if you were smart enough to figure that out you would be smart enough to realize you make yourself sound stooooopid!

yea all my acusations were because of the are he was in, high for crime and gangs, he didnt listen to the officer, showing he has no regard for authority. i love it how when any white person dosent agree with a black person, they call us a "hillbilly" but yet when i call you a gang banger you say not all blacks are in gangs. hmm someones racist themselves. all we see on tv is BLACK crimes in memphis and dont say because they dont ever show whites crimes because when i lived in other states there wanst nearly as many black crimes on tv. take the damn kindergarten picture down put up his really picture with his corn rows and dew rags and baggy pants. they dont wanan show thoos epictures because then the mom wouldnt be getting all the tv coverage, i love hows she usuing her sons death to ge ton tv as much as possible!

why was everyone wearing red in his honor, isnt black customary?? oh wait no when your in a gang they have colors ok. gotcha

I know that if I had been sammis I would have done the same thing. If you ask me sammis showed great restaint, he only fired 2 rounds. I would have emptied my mag. Blacks want this kind of thing to happen so they can cry racism and not put the blame where it should be, on themselves.

I agree with Bartlettman.  I have also heard COGIC is getting involved.  What the heck???

BUTT WIPE I KNOW WHAT YOU WERE DOING I HAVEN'T BEEN RANTING I HAVE BEEN SIMPLY TELLING THE TRUTH  U THINK I WOULD LET SOME REDNECK *** REDNECK PEDOPHILE REALLY PISS ME OFF U ARE NOT THat good

why dont u racist rednecked mama boys and inbred freaks simply leave the city u people are a bunch of cowards and whiners

First off...Thanks for the compliment earlier Bartlettman I do care that you respect my comments and I know that a lot of times you are using sarcasim because of some of the stupid things people say...yet they don't get it and end up pissed of.  

It is a shame that everyone is making this whole thing about race. This is the most racist place I have ever lived and yes I grew up in MS but it was nothing like Memphis. The point of this section is to discuss how we feel about the death of young DeAunte. I will say it again...I don't think the officer shot him just because he was black. I think that combined with the facts that this was the ghetto, the kid pointed a toy gun, and did not follow prompts from the officer led to this tragedy.

u people allways assume the officer is telling the truth if he lied about a previous brutality complaint in little rock what makes you think he telling the truth? see you people never reall do your homework

and the people that saw this act have no motivation to lie??? yeah right, now I think I should buy some swamp land in florida

deep breath rob......deep, hold it, exhale.....


now answer this,  a kid holding a rock standing in front of a window with broken glass said he did not break it, and a cop that said he saw him break it.  now the cop is black and the kid white, who would you believe?

now the kid is black and the cop white?

if this cop had been black, NONE of this would have been in the news after the funeral

WHERE IS YOUR SENSE HUMOR YOU KEEP PUTTING THIS LITTLE CHILD DOWN LIKE YOU HAVE SOMETHING AGAINST HIM YOU DON'T GET IT IT'S NOT A RACIST ISSUE IT'S A CHILD GETTING GUNNED DOWN LIKE HE WAS A ESCAPE PRISON AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHOW HIS PICTURE TA-TA WAS ONLY 12 YEARSOLD HOW TALL OR OLD SHOULD HE LOOK YOU REAL NEED HELP YOU AS DUMD AS YOU SOUND AND AS FAR AS RED THAT WAS HIS FAVORITE COLOR CAUSE TA-TA LIKE RED HE GOT BE IN A GANG GET REAL I HOPE YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH A TRAGEY CAUSE HOW  WELL WILL YOU TAKE IT YOU REALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT A CHILD GETTING KILLED AND AS FAR AS HIS MOTHER SHE IS A DAMN GOOD MOTHER AND IF THIS THE ONLY WAY SHE CAN GETPEOPLE TO LISTEN THEN DEBRA NEEDS TO BE ON CNN OR CALL NANCY GRACE CAUSE THIS IS A VERY HURTING FEEL FOR OUR COMMUNTITY AND EVERYONE WILL BE BY DEBRA SIDE UNTIL JUSTICE IS SERVE SO THE NEXT TIME YOU WANT TO CALL SOMEONE CHILD STUPID LOOK AT YOUR OWN KIDS OR LOOK IN MIRROR THIS IS PERSONAL TO TIRED OF MEMPHIS OF LIFE CALL THE BEVERLY HILLS MAYBE THEY HAVE SOMETHING IN HILLBILLIES FOR YOU. AND I CAN'T SAY I'LL PRAY FOR YOU CUZ YOU DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD . NOW YOU GET REALOR TRY GETTING A LIFE MAYBE  YOU NEED A LIFE SINCE YOU DON'T DO NOTHING BUT STAY AT HOME

The Dept of Justice made the right call

far as the dept.of justice thst's your opion cuz don't know what you are talking about.

The Dept of Justice made the right call

Rob, you truly are an idiot.  Thank you for proving my point.

My child wouldn't have been outside at night, so this wouldn't have happened to my kid.

The problem here is that most everyone here is reacting based on emotion not facts. Surely, the FBI, who is more than happy to put cops in jail when they are wrong (as they should) be did a thorough investigation into this matter. It is tragic, no doubt. The problem is, unless you have been a law enforcement officer you don't really know what it's like to have to make split second decisions in the dark with life or death outcomes. A bullet fired from a gun held by a 12 year old will leave you just as dead as a bullet fired from a gun held by a 35 year old. With the violence that is so prevalent these days it is a bit naive to think that these young people don't have guns. If you don't believe that, ask the people in Jonesboro or Paducah or Columbine. What we need here is to wait for the facts. What bothers me is the thinly veiled threats that these "civic leaders" come out with about this place "exploding" if justice is not done. Again, the FBI has a long history of prosecuting police officers who violate the law. Let's leave this to the professionals.

Being the wife of a WMP officer, I appreciate your concern over the thinly veiled threats made by the "civic leaders".  My husband puts his life on the line everyday doing a job that he loves which is protecting the people of all races, walks of life, etc.  It is very scary especially now with all that is going on that "thinly veiled threats" and actual threats are being made against the whole WMPD and EMT workers.  The threats started immediately after word came of this boy being killed and now with the officers being cleared of at least one charge it will only get worse.  Mainly because of these "civil leaders" and the media.  I was not there that night so I can't place an opinion on what happened.  All I know is it is a VERY TRAGIC event for both the Farrow family and Sammis family.  Unless you were there, you can't say what you would do or wouldn't do.  Also, for those of you who have never been in law enforcement or have family members in law enforcement you have no idea and never will of what these officers go through while doing their job.

sir you are the idiot because you hide behind an alias so go somewhere coward and piss off because you are just some wimp who hides behind a keyboard you would never be man or women enough to call me am idiot to my face you closet homosexual be a man stop hiding behind an alias i am laughing at you because you are a real coward

I say again that had a black officer shot this boy nothing would be in the press now. Great point about his age. There are cases all the time of kids 12 or younger being violent.  Remember Jonesboro?  This is a case of exploitation as well. DeAunte is being exploited by a community.

One question black america, what does it take for you to be satisfied and get over the past?

And i doubt you are man enough to meet bigorange. you are hiding too.

robc answer the quest I posed before

a kid holding a rock standing in front of a window with broken glass said he did not break it, and a cop that said he saw him break it.  now the cop is black and the kid white, who would you believe?

now the kid is black and the cop white?

RED WAZ HIS FAV COLOR.
ND TO DERRICK FORGET U
HIS MOTHER NOT TRYING 2 GET ANY TV TIME.
YOU MAKIN YOURSELF SOUND REALLY STUPID TALKIN ABOUT WHAT GANG TA TA WAZ IN.
TA TA WAS NO GANG BANGER
1 QUESTION
WAT IF THIS WOULDHVE BEEN YOUR CHILD.
AND DONT 4GET THE TIME WAS 9:45 - 10:00 ON A SUMMER NIGHT
YOUR CHILD PROBABLY STAY OUT LONGER THEN THIZ
IM FINISH!!!
YALL MAKIN YOURSELVES SOUND STUPID TALKIN ABOUT A DIED CHILD

Derrick, please stop posting. You are not making yourself look like anything other than an idiot.  even robc seems smart compared to you

2RC is right about this. The effect on the Sammis family is huge as well. There is no credible evidence that has come to light to show that this officer did anything wrong. Believe me, the FBI will put a cop in jail in a heart beat, and they should, if they have done something wrong. But without any evidence of wrongdoing, how can anyone say that the officer should be punished. None of us were there. Again, unless you are a law enforcement officer you don't know what it's like. As a 21 year veteran of law enforcement I can't say what the officer should have done since I wasn't there and really don't have any "real" information. Be patient. Just because you don't like the outcome of an investigation doesn't mean it wasn't a good investigation. We have to work together.

@ 2cmac....who is you people...FYI  I am black just so you know...and I am not saying that the cop is right. I just don't think he shot only because DeAunte was black.

The rule of thumb in my house growing up was, if it's dark outside, you need to be inside.  So if it was dark at 5, I was in by 5.  If it was dark at 10, I was in by 10.  Heck, when I was 12 my bedtime was 9:30, so don't tell me that it is normal for a 12 year old child to be outside that late.

ookkkkkkkkkk  to all the people think they know and who listen too what  he say and she say yall dont know nothin bout the truth . They saying some esle but the eyewitness who saw it from the begining saying he didn't have no gun but he had chip and pop and a cds player the boy who was with him who is his cousin say what happen on the news which is the same  and he should know and they  say it was no light where they was standing where they stop him which  is right by a bright light pole  and thats  not a high crime  area . then he shoot him in the leg first which  he drop too his knees why he had finish him off and shoot him in the back which kill him tell why he should he be charge  he  should be put away  for many years this child is not here to defened hisself  but we will remember me

nope my son will be in bed or atleast inside by that time ESPECIALLY IF I LIVED IN THE GHETTO!!!

derrrick i bet you didnt even know him you just wanna sound like you do. red is his fav color blah blah. wel for not wanting tv time she sure has been on it alot!! complaing bc the cop didnt come and apologize and blah blah. it is sad a kid had to die but all of you saying " A CHILD GETTING GUNNED DOWN LIKE HE WAS A ESCAPE PRISON " he was not gunned down to shots thats it they officer thought his life was in danger i dont understand how some of you people think. he did not listen to the officer, if he was such a "good boy" why did he point the gun at him in the first place??

you talk and say when we leave damn leave we are not the only one who commit crime every race do am getting tried  ppl saying black ppl are ghetto we use speak are mind we dont take crap . we are not kill are young babys but when tme for you go jail i got a mential problem . its getting trieder tall be paying attidenion too the iraq pl who are probably planing blow use away  this is too tiredofmemphislife

mrs k it was late at night it just turning nine o 'clock which he  was a door away his aunt house til he fell too his death news got there at 10 o'clock yall dont know nothing but what you heard from the news which they got  from west memphis  police department which is twisted lies

mrs k it was late at night it just turning nine o 'clock which he  was a door away his aunt house til he fell too his death news got there at 10 o'clock yall dont know nothing but what you heard from the news which they got  from west memphis  police department which is twisted lies

like miss debra said he want here holidays because he clam he felt in danger there was no gun lots of light to see shoot in the leg drop too his knees shoot him in the back and kill him

OK people, Lets face it, yes it is sad that another child has lost his life. But, every one who lives in the Memphis - West Memphis area is fully aware of the rise in crime.. What is a 12 year old boy doing out at 12:00 on a Sat night caring a toy gun??? What was his motive?? Would you of thought it was real or a toy? Where was the child's parent when this happened ?  It was stated that the police had been keeping a close watch on the store because of the robbiers that kept accruing...What type of mother or parent allows the child to walk to the store at 12:00 Sat night carring a toy gun in a high crime area?...Are the parents  being charged with neglect? Oh no!!! So lets blame the police officers for doing their job, trying to keep the area safe. What has this world come to, just where does the blame belong ?? The parent who has neglected the child or the officers for doing his job trying to keep crime off the streets ????

OK people, Lets face it, yes it is sad that another child has lost his life. But, every one who lives in the Memphis - West Memphis area is fully aware of the rise in crime.. What is a 12 year old boy doing out at 12:00 on a Sat night caring a toy gun??? What was his motive?? Would you of thought it was real or a toy? Where was the child's parent when this happened ?  It was stated that the police had been keeping a close watch on the store because of the robbiers that kept accruing...What type of mother or parent allows the child to walk to the store at 12:00 Sat night carring a toy gun in a high crime area?...Are the parents  being charged with neglect? Oh no!!! So lets blame the police officers for doing their job, trying to keep the area safe. What has this world come to, just where does the blame belong ?? The parent who has neglected the child or the officers for doing his job trying to keep crime off the streets ????

i do know tata and ms farrow
it was a friday not a saturday
how do you your child would be n the house
i bet u your child talk bad 2 you
i bet u dont kno what getto mean
nd Bartlettman just stay out of it
he was gunned down

why was they wearing at his feneral that was his favorite color stop thing if don't know whta hell talking about got damn its so many who are a lowlife have nothing do pay a child death to tiredofmemphislife that was in no type danger  but  god will finish him and he will have  live knowing he going too hell

retired legal asst he was not out at 12o'clock but 9o'clock i dont think was but 8 the news got there about time 12o'clock or10  that child was out that lite   he would been in aunt house if wasnt from that so call officer killing him

people say the was in high crime are which was not but it wast the high crime area tha killed him weak and sorry west memphis poilce officer you see they ran all the way too memphis and killed them

people say the was in high crime are which was not but it wast the high crime area tha killed him weak and sorry west memphis poilce officer you see they ran all the way too memphis and killed them

There will always be questions unless the citizens of Memphis / West Memphis make the police change there tactics and equipment this will happen again.   Read this article and I shall be back with some ways that might help your case.

 

Gun Camera  


When an officer pulls his gun from the holster, the digital recording begins.

With a l.5 ounce camera about the size of a lipstick placed below the barrel of the gun, it can record sound and every object or movement the weapon points at.

This new police technology comes to Newburgh just a year shy of the anniversary of the police shootout here on Broadway that resulted in the death of 23-year-old Antonio Bryant.

The gunfight put a strain on the communities relationship with police.

Mayor Nick Valentine, who is up for re-election a week from Tuesday, believes this new surveillance could help reunite both sides.

thank u "what you know"
red was his fav colr
tired of memhis just a low life and she need to get 1
and
Retired Legal Asst do your reseach friday about 9-10:00
nd Bartlettman talk what you know it was the summer time school was out. your kids probably stay out past 12:00
and the area isnt a high a high crime or drug area plz talk what u kno plz
i will be at the rally today at 1:00

and funny man
lame nall superlame!!!!!!!!!
and wave caps and red dont make you no gang banger
do your research before you speak
lilorange77 is u blind??????
that is his 6th grade pic
and me and robc dont even know each other we just got sence
what yall dont got!!!!

There will always be questions unless the citizens of Memphis / West Memphis make the police change there tactics and equipment this will happen again.   Read this article and I shall be back with some ways so you might help your case.

 

Gun Camera  


When an officer pulls his gun from the holster, the digital recording begins.

With a l.5 ounce camera about the size of a lipstick placed below the barrel of the gun, it can record sound and every object or movement the weapon points at.

This new police technology comes to Newburgh just a year shy of the anniversary of the police shootout here on Broadway that resulted in the death of 23-year-old Antonio Bryant.

The gunfight put a strain on the communities relationship with police.

Mayor Nick Valentine, who is up for re-election a week from Tuesday, believes this new surveillance could help reunite both sides

I wonder if there would be such outrage if this would have been a black cop who killed the kid. Would Al Sharpton still try to get involved? Anyway, it is such a shame that the mother is trying to bank off of this from filing a lawsuit. I would hope that a jury would be intelligent enough to realize that if they awarded the mother any money, the city would have to cut back on all budgets including police and fire protection to pay her. It would be a shame for a home to burn down because the fire department had to cut back on their payroll. I completely support the police officer involved. All he did was doing his job. Kids take real guns and weapons to school all them time, so what would make this cop believe that the guy was a toy? The mother should be held responsible because she should have never let her kid to go outside that time of night running around with a toy gun. Besides that, the area where this shooting took place does not appear to be that safe anyway. So, that being said, if you know your neighborhood or apartment complex gets patrolled because of crime and drugs, why in the world would the mother let her son have a toy gun to begin with, let alone go outside and play with it. I am sure the mother was aware of the crime in the neighborhood and knows that police often patrol her neighborhood. Talk about playing with fire!
I am so sick and tired of ignorant people blaming race. I am sure any other black or white cop would have reacted the same way whether it was a black, white, or mexican kid with a gun. Parents need to be held responsible for the kid's actions. The mother appears to be a disgrace to society by trying to profit off something that she should be blaming herself for. I sure hope that she is sterile and can't have anymore kids. It appears she wants kids for all the wrong reasons. This should be a lesson for all parents....Memphis and the surrounding cities are full of crime and it's only getting worse. Police officers are always on high alert. If your child goes in public with a toy or real gun and they don't obey a police officers warning to drop the weapon, there is a great chance that your child will get injured or killed. The citizens of West Memphis should be proud of their police department. Like I said before, it is a shame that uneducated people want to blame race for actions committed by the uneducated. A responsible parent would have never let this happen.

I have a question for blacks to answer...What if the office was black?  Would you say the black cop was racist for shooting a black kid?  What if the officer was asian, would you also think the asian cop was a racist for killing a black kid??

Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me that that most murders in the Memphis area are blacks killing blacks.  Does this mean that blacks are racist against blacks???  It appears to me that blacks are OK with blacks killing blacks.  It just does not make sense that out of 100 blacks getting killed, probably 99 were killed from a black, but the 1 who is killed by a white is a racist crime.  

BRIBRI  your comments is based on emotion and not logic.  Do I think the kid didn't need that plastic gun, yes.  Do I believe that contributed to his death, absolutely.  Do I believe it was an accident, yes.  Yet what went wrong. There are only questions and no answers.

Do I believe the Gun Camera would have put a lot of anger to rest and may solve future problems yes 100%.  Once as a military police officer I was placed in the same situation but, I didn't shoot.   I hesitated for a brief second if the gun would have been real my partner would be dead and maybe myself.

It turned out to be a pellet pistol, this plays back in my mine each time I hear of some child dies. If is an accident say so don't dismiss it, and if it was an accident and that officer have a human heart.  This will drive him nuts inside till the point he quits or transfer, then what.
Nothing will change and the child will still be no more.

There is always some white person saying we are playing the race card.  Or we are gaining some monetary advantage over a death by suing.  Can this be said about 9/11 or over plane crashes and even the deaths here in Virginia on VT campus.

Most of the people killed on campus was white 97% and each family member that lost a love one has been paid about 4 million dollars each and they are still suing the college.  There is no one more disturb by the black deaths anywhere more than myself regardless of age or the killer.  The problem is knowing, the solution is stopping it from happening again.

This situation is in no comparison to 9/11 or the VT shootings.  The families of the VT victims are suing because the school did not put the campus on lock down after the first shooting took place and students were not notified that that a killer was still on the loose.  Classes should have been cancelled, but they were not.......the school lacked security procedures and that is the reason why the families are suing.  There is absolutely not comparison between the two.

You stated that "There is always some white person saying we are playing the race card".  Every time I turn on the news and see this story, blacks being interviewed are always implying that this is a racial issue.  I am sure if you have been watching the news and have seen the interviews of the victim's friends, family, and neighbors, you have heard them say stuff like "if this was a black cop that killed a white kid, he would be in jail".  Also, if the black community didn't think this was a race issue, they would not be trying to get Al Sharpton and other black rights groups involved.  Am I right or am I wrong???  So do you still think my comments are not based on logic?

the black cop wouldof came up lost, died or and n jail for life
u know that
you been wrong!!!

Bribri yes I do, first when the shooting took place here, they said a white man shot his ex-girlfriend and her new black boyfriend.  And because of the first shooting that took place on campus a year earlier.  
With the white highway patrolman being shot to death and the black security guard being killed at the hospital by the same white man.
The students threaten to sue the school, campus police and city police if they had to make up the first day of classes. This played a large part of poor judgment that let things spiral out of control.

With Al Sharpton people needed a rallying point.  Someone to make people take notice of a problem in the community.  I feel he was not needed , but people need leaders to show them what to do.  No I don't like the race card either but as long as white America can call blacks words that I don't use towards blacks, like Dog the bounty hunter, or Imus ignorant remarks, we will never get pass things of the past because it's groups and things like kkk,  and noose hangings marks the present and not the past.

some logic in your comments, but you base your comments on emotion. You never addressed if the Gun Camera would have made a difference.

First I don't listen to rap music I listen to jazz, my daughter is into classical music.  Also being a professional individuals that use those terms toward or around me find that my door of opportunity is shut like most minds of society.

Now here is where you don't have facts, there was a shooting that took place on VT Campus a year earlier by this little white punk Marvo.  This shooting caused the campus to go in lock down on the first day of classes.  All classes was cancelled that day so students had to make this day up.

So the students threaten too sue if they had to make up that day.  Blaming police and school officials for him getting on campus.

By suing the city will make it recognize it's problem with it's police force and find better ways with dealing with the people they are sworn to protect.  This has nothing to do with a get rich scheme.  There is a child dead and people are not getting satisfaction in the way it was handle.

I feel it was an accident,but instead of saying so it has turned into a travesty of justice.  I never make decisions on emotions it's always will cost you in the end.  Most of you whites do as  well as some blacks respond out of anger.  

My desire to help out weighs my need for stupidity, yet I have seen white kids killed in similar fashion and white America get the senate floor black America is blocked from this venue.

Bribri for your comment toward a friend of Debra it is the need of a superior to a inferior complex that keep a constant distrust of one another.
I Find this type attitude
below ignorant with most individuals having their heads erected up the northern end of their anatomy. Left only to spew the most uncompelling rhetoric, even a sow would not try to digest.

Believe this she may have typed faster than she put words too thought.  But I would never say That I am better than the next man, only when I compete for a job  then there is a need for such banter.  And since I work for myself I know you are incapable of my hourly fee.

That would make my time with someone with an inept imagination null and void.  It is attitudes of this nature that fuel distrust and hatred in our races.  There is one thing to be said here in Roanoke and surrounding area.  75% of all couples here is black and white so as long as you feel the need to be superior the farther behind you become.

And the Travesty of the young Deaunta will continue to happen no matter the race.

As i read your comments I can tell the blacks from the whites (but race is not the problem right).  I all so read a lot of comments stating (all we know is).  Well let me tell you what I know because he was my nephew.   When I got out the US ARMY after serving 9 years to protect my family and country from all injustice. I took on the role to be involed in all on my nephews and nicses life.  I did'nt want them to become what i had seen. I would get them almost everyother weekend and cook out go to the ball park and play foot ball in the back yard.  With all the hate shown on tv I wanted them to learn a different way and to set goals and reach for them the right way. Ta ta and the other kids was at my house the weekend before his death and we all attend the juneteth fest that saturday and we all had a good time.  I had promised to pick them up that weekend but I had to work and my mom left to visit her sister so I told them that it would be next weekend but it never came.  So you all can stop trying to beat up on my sister be she was and still is a great mother and person. I blame myself for that night because I could not protect him and I can not allow you all anymore to keep saying those things about Ta ta. I KNOW that he was not a threat to anyone. I KNOW that he had respect for not just the law but for every one.  You all talk of common sence and I have not read any thing from anyone usinf it yet. What you all know is what you have heard or seen on the news(and we know their always right)..  Beleive what you will and say what you may but what happen that night to my nephew that night was plained any may not have had anything to do with race but covering up what happen that night has race all on it...

have any one seen the toy gun yet or are we still going by what sammis said happen that night.  Is so we all know that sammis can lie pretty good.
was anyone in danger of getting shot by the boy. so why did sammis stop them. why did the other boy go to jail and could see his parents for hours. why stake out a store in a crime infested area when the school is closer to the store and provides a much qicker route. why shoot twice. why hide if it was an accident. was sammis blood tested that night. if you can answer all these question and still free sammis you have just proven that justice see color not facts.

   
Uncle Anthony You have my Total respect and heart felt wishes from a Veteran of the Navy of OPERATION JUST CAUSE, DESERT STORM AND DESERT SHIELD,  IWAS WONDERING HAVE YOU SEEN THE POLICE GUN CAM HERE IS THE ARTICLE

Gun Camera   Click For Video!
When an officer pulls his gun from the holster, the digital recording begins.

With a l.5 ounce camera about the size of a lipstick placed below the barrel of the gun, it can record sound and every object or movement the weapon points at.

Orange County's sheriff's emergency service team and the Newburgh Police Department will be the first to test the pistol cam and they may be the first in the country to have an extra eye looking over every officers decision.

Chief Eric Paolilli says "if the technology is there to be used and it's an effective tool and we examine it and there's no safety issues and there's no issues with our guns there's no issues that come to light during this pilot time, it's one more tool that we can use."

This new police technology comes to Newburgh just a year shy of the anniversary of the police shootout here on Broadway that resulted in the death of 23-year-old Antonio Bryant.

The gunfight put a strain on the communities relationship with police.

Mayor Nick Valentine, who is up for re-election a week from Tuesday, believes this new surveillance could help reunite both sides.

The city of Newburgh police department participates in their own union. The president of their PBA was shown the pistol cam for the time time tonight.

He says he's reluctant to believe his officers will support this new technology.

The state has alloted $35,000 dollars for a testing period in Newburgh over the next few months. If successful, every Newburgh officer will have the pistol camera are part of their equipment.

Once as a military police officer I was placed in a very similar situation but, I didn't shoot.   I hesitated for a brief second if the gun would have been real my partner would be dead and maybe myself. The weapon  turned out to be a pellet pistol.

A toy is a toy, but hesitation and over zealousness cost lives.  I feel what happen was a accident.  Now it is a travesty of justice.

It's time for the Police department to come of age, with Dash Cams and Gun Cams.

Do I believe the Gun Camera would have put a lot of anger to rest and may solve future problems yes 100%

Terry
Christiansburg, Virginia

bribri
you and people like you are the reason why the race war is still a problem. you must be a child stuck in what if land. and your parents failed you by filling you with so much hatered for blacks.  and by chance you are an adult i pray that you don't have any kids your self. lets try in stay in the here and now. it's sad when anyone kills anyone black or white. but instead of teaching the youth that right and wrong is niether black or white and that their is good and bad in both. and to fight for right reguardless of who it may be. not filling their head with what if crap and give them another reason to hate on looks.

   
Uncle Anthony  I believe it was an it was an accident, now it's a cover up.

I believe the police identified themselves and your nephew may have reached  for the toy gun to show them it wasn't real and the police officer fired.  Without hesitation my question is...

Was the officer qualified to carry this weapon.  Was the weapon modified with a flashlight or laser,night scope, and what type ammo used.

When did the patrolman pass his gun qualification to have any weapon on the street. Just because you are a police officer you still must qualify to carry a weapon.
I listen to WDIA Call Bobby in the morning and talk to them 901-535-WDIA.

God Bless   from Virgina

African American 2
thanks.
i want to believe that it was just an accident and in the beging thats what i told my sister to try an comfort her, but then days pass and no name or apoligy stired something up in me.  when you have an accident you step up and take blame for it and let the family know that you had no other choice in the matter.  not hide like your thying to cover somthing up and make tata out to be a little thug and to add insult to injuries 2 day after you say he had a toy gun a story was ran about another toy gun that looked real. a black man stated that he saw the gun and took it from the kids around the same age as tata (and if they say the area where tata was shot was crime infested then this place in a war zone). something wasn't right.

To Now I Know.....Yes, I am a mother of two.  I have one son who is senior in high school and a daughter who is working on her master’s degree at UT.  Neither one of my children have ever been arrested, went to jail because of drugs, or been in any kind of trouble with the law.  These days that must say a little something for my parenting skills.  Not to mention the fact that neither one of my kids are spitting kids out right and left.  If you read all my comments, you will see that my comments are not racist, but all geared towards to truth.   I am sorry you disagree with my thoughts on how mom wants to bank off of this and how if blacks were not trying to make it a racial issue, they would not be trying to get Al Sharpton involved and make such a big deal about everything.  The cop was cleared by a federal investigation....end of story.  Maybe the mother should make something positive out of this like going to school and talking to the kids about guns and toy guns.  Maybe that would teach children that if you have a weapon, real or fake, that the consequences could be deadly.  Kids should be taught that if you have a weapon at school, in an airport, walking down the street, hanging out in a parking lot, at a bank, at your work, anywhere that this could happen whether you are 10 or 20 years old.  

Oh by the way, for about the last 6 months my daughter has been dating a Latino that she met at school.  I guess I am racist because I approve of the relationship and told her that she could not date him.  I guess I am racist because I have invited him into my home.  Don't judge the messenger!

bribri
so what are you doing to the mother (pot callin the kettle black).
just the messenger.

Bribri for your comment toward a friend of Debra it is the need of a superior to a inferior complex that keep a constant distrust of one another.
I Find this type attitude
below ignorant with most individuals having their heads erected up the northern end of their anatomy. Left only to spew the most uncompelling rhetoric, even a sow would not try to digest.

Believe this she may have typed faster than she put words too thought.  But I would never say That I am better than the next man, only when I compete for a job  then there is a need for such banter.  And since I work for myself I know you are incapable of my hourly fee.

That would make my time with someone with an inept imagination null and void.  It is attitudes of this nature that fuel distrust and hatred in our races.  There is one thing to be said here in Roanoke and surrounding area.  75% of all couples here is black and white so as long as you feel the need to be superior the farther behind you become.

And the Travesty of the young Deaunta will continue to happen no matter the race.

Uncle Anthony

What is apparent to me is the police was looking for some one that fit the description of your nephew, about the same time I was working in Florida when they arrested a young kid that was suspected in 3 murders.  His age 16-yr old this is a problem with our young children.

With the idolization of hip hop thug mentality causing an ever growing problem of violence.  Last year in a mall in Roanoke several white gang members try to rob me of my clothing demanding me to disrobe in the mall 12 in the afternoon.

To put it clear am 5'9 200lb and weight  lifter and professional trainer, I grab the little punk and was going to throw him over the balcony.  Mall security save his a@@.  They had mugged an elderly couple minutes earlier.  I must stop here for a while I must finish packing for a week long trip but I will be back, to this blog in a few hours before I leave.  Do you think the Police Gun Cam would have put your family heart at ease.  Please call Bobby Ojay on WDIA in the Morning.

Bribri

OKAY THEN LET'S ADDRESS WHAT YOU ARE SAYING:

From what I have been seeing is that the gang culture have transcended to suburbia it was cool as long as it did not cross this barrier now White kids are shooting fellow classmates from Colorado too Finland.   And long as it stayed it the black neighborhoods it was okay.

Yet this is no longer the case, on MSNBC program who is getting arrested in the sting for child perversion 98% Whites.  Then who's the blame?  Just Friday Hillary Clinton blame the hip hop culture for this trend, that statement is stupid and racist.

You are responsible for your own actions and here in Virginia A White teen killed her mother for insurance money, A white teen in Kansas killed her mother over her curfew, a white teen killed her mother and father in Missouri because she could not attend a party for older teens.

And there's Jeffery Dahmer, John Gacy, Ted Bundy, James Huberty, Danny Rollings, and Colin Fergunson. Oh wait... Fergunson was Black.

Before you point the finger, clean your own house first, we know there is a problem in the black community, and recognizing it is a step forward toward solving it.

to y2k.....I am saying that the mother should not be so money hungry.  All she is doing is trying to bank off of this.  She knew her son was playing with fire by having a fake gun.  With the crime that goes on around here, I would have never let my son go outside with a toy gun.  The mother should blame herself for being wrong and stop trying to blame the police dept. for being right.  

"   African Amercan said:
Bribri

OKAY THEN LET'S ADDRESS WHAT YOU ARE SAYING:

From what I have been seeing is that the gang culture have transcended to suburbia it was cool as long as it did not cross this barrier now White kids are shooting fellow classmates from Colorado too Finland.   And long as it stayed it the black neighborhoods it was okay.

Yet this is no longer the case, on MSNBC program who is getting arrested in the sting for child perversion 98% Whites.  Then who's the blame?  Just Friday Hillary Clinton blame the hip hop culture for this trend, that statement is stupid and racist.

You are responsible for your own actions and here in Virginia A White teen killed her mother for insurance money, A white teen in Kansas killed her mother over her curfew, a white teen killed her mother and father in Missouri because she could not attend a party for older teens.

And there's Jeffery Dahmer, John Gacy, Ted Bundy, James Huberty, Danny Rollings, and Colin Fergunson. Oh wait... Fergunson was Black.

Before you point the finger, clean your own house first, we know there is a problem in the black community, and recognizing it is a step forward toward solving it."
___________________________

AA there are seven times as many "whites" as blacks in this country, yet blacks comprise 52 percent of all murderers and 49 percent of the victims.  They murder at nearly 10 times the rate of white people.

Here the blacks are getting their panties in a wad over ONE death (tragic as it was) when, since the last time a child with a fake gun was shot by the police ~2500 people, largely black, have been murdered by largely young black males.

Blacks deny the problem and try to lay the blame at anyone else's feet. They are incapable of any honesty on this issue, and those in their community who do voice the REAL problem are ostracized and intimidated.

Now go back and wallow in the pen that your community created.  All of the slum neighborhoods you live in were nice when whites lived there.

bribri
where is the gun. have you seen it because i sure have not, but i did see the gun from the shooting in memphis shortly after the shooting.  so what do you know
nonthing but he was black, out under curfew and you think they are poor. and as far as your daughter dating out of her race THANK GOD for that because you (i hope) will have little to no affect on their up bringing:)..

By suing the city will make it recognize it's problem with it's police force and find better ways with dealing with the people they are sworn to protect.  This has nothing to do with a get rich scheme.  There is a child dead and people are not getting satisfaction in the way it was handle.

I feel it was an accident,but instead of saying so it has turned into a travesty of justice.  

There is always some white person saying we are playing the race card.  Or we are gaining some monetary advantage over a death.  Can this be said about 9/11 or over plane crashes and even the deaths here in Virginia on VT campus.

Most of the people killed on campus was 97% white and each family member that lost a love one has been paid about 4 million dollars each and they are still suing the college.  I guess you would say to the professors wives and higher education people they are seeking blood money.

It's about responsibility, something you are lacking in judgment. The constant tone of indignation. Your words reek the stench of a urine soaked alley and best left in you semi- conscience mine.

Some would say what would you do if the shoe was on the other foot.

Slums and Ghettos comprised of whites Americans and Jews was unemployed during the depression and the dust bowl of Oklahoma.

And since blacks are taking the life of one another, whites are doing it in wide scale. From the Bombing of Federal building in Oklahoma, to the shooting in Mcdonalds in San Diego, To Gary Ridgeway murder of a hundred prostitute.

Tim it is sad that in stead of speaking of ways to prevent a death that you choose to idolize your heroes like hitler, stalin, and moussolini.   Each had ideals of greatness and each died alone.  
The only filth you see is what stares back at you in the mirror each day.

wasn't hitler really a jew who had everyone thinking he was white.

bri bri the mother is not money hungry
do you know her
dont comment nomore until you the news,newspaper, and etc show me the gun
and that not gonna never happpen because it was never a gun from the start

bri bri the mother is not money hungry
do you know her
dont comment nomore until you the news,newspaper, and etc show me the gun
and that not gonna never happpen because it was never a gun from the start

bri bri the mother is not money hungry
do you know her
dont comment nomore until you the news,newspaper, and etc show me the gun
and that not gonna never happpen because it was never a gun from the start

the ones that sayin i need to learn how 2 speak
i know how speak itz just a quicker way on the net

what ever happen to the gun the man took from the young men in the projects.
hope it not the same one or maybe it is:)

and 1s who sayin this child shouldhve been pointing no gun
he didnt have no gun to point
the mine 1s who talking buy their kids paintguns and bb guns for christmas
and how can you from tellin a kid to get out of the rode from playing
to saying my life was indanger

Y2K.......you said "wasn't hitler really a jew who had everyone thinking he was white".  Let me give you a little religion education.  Judaism is a religion, not a race.  I even know a few black jews.  I don't think Hitler tricked people into believing he was white, because he was white.  

What in the world does Hitler have to do with some kid and a toy gun?

bri bri
i'm sorry a true race(blonde hair and blue eyes right).
all I'm saying is that everthing is not always as it appear to be...
thanks for the history lesson.

We just are.

Spoken like a true inbred mongrel degenerate from the hills and trailer parks of America.  

Eat watermelon

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White child attacked and nearly killed by family's pit bull had child by throat in Ohio.  Black Teens  passing by in car jumped out of car and beat dog off child and gave mouth to mouth resuscitation saving child's life.

White family faces charges for public drunkenness and disorderly conductand child endangerment.

whitearesuperior

You make yourself larger than life, but in reality you still have a steel grip on your mothers panty line as you eat from her rear tit.  

Being a man in the electronic age is easy for a sissy like you as you salivate over your george micheals, and elton john cd collection in a darken room, with the closes thing of a real girl in your life being your sister or your hand.

I want you in my closet citizen......

all the people who takin up for eric
have the new showed the gun yet!!!
yall know eric and investagators wrong yall just accept the fact

did they???
nope!!!!
because it was never a gun or toy gun

YOUR TYPING SUCKS, GO CLICK THE "X" BUTTON AND PUT A GUN TO YOUR FOREHEAD

IGNORE DERRICK, HE'S ONE OF THE UNFORTUNATE BLACK PEOPLE WHO JUST NEVER LEARNED AROUND THE KEYBOARD, PAY MORE ATTENTION TO SMART, RACISTS BLACK PEOPLE LIKE ME!! KKK IS GOING TO HELL hahahahahahaha! all crackers should die!

FORGET THE LITTLE BOY WHO'S DEAD!! D-E-A-D DEAD!!! AND FORGET THE COP AND THE MOTHER!! LIFE GOES ON!! SO CELEBRATE AND...

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I'm sorry world!! I actually thought us whites were superior, but in reality we are ALL stupid crackers and rednecks. All we know how to do is smoke Marlboro cigarettes and sip on a bud light and we walk around saying, "YEE-HAW!!!" We are just here to be here. We are the scum of the earth and we serve no purpose but to forever be honky dumbass crackers!! maybe we should click the "x" button and go kill ourselves and just REALLY REALLY HOPE AND WISH HARD for our soul to burn in hell for eternity. HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

funnel cake u black
u going to hell 2 for being racists
with a name like funnel cake you must be *** or somedude had fun with u when u was young
and tell the 1 that had to go that

  Funnel Cake said:
IGNORE DERRICK, HE'S ONE OF THE UNFORTUNATE BLACK PEOPLE WHO JUST NEVER LEARNED AROUND THE KEYBOARD, PAY MORE ATTENTION TO SMART, RACISTS BLACK PEOPLE LIKE ME!! KKK IS GOING TO HELL hahahahahahaha! all crackers should die!


YOU are talking about derrick????  Talk about a pot calling a kettle black!!!!

 Police kill unarmed man who was holding hairbrush

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Officers shot and killed an 18-year-old man believed to be armed, New York police said Tuesday, but he was only hiding a hairbrush.
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Officers in New York early Tuesday guard the scene of a police shooting that left a teen dead.

The Monday night shooting followed a 911 call from the man's mother, said New York Deputy Police Commissioner Paul Browne.

Cleaver-Wielding Ex-Girlfriend Shot In Chest

West Feliciana Parish sheriff's officials said Davis kicked in the door of her former boyfriend's trailer. Investigators said he was in the bedroom with his new girlfriend when Davis, carrying a meat cleaver, stormed into the room.

The new girlfriend was cut with the cleaver, and then she reportedly pulled out a pistol and shot Davis in the chest.

Must have been black

Bartlettman REAL FUNNY... NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MUST HAVE BEEN WHITE LOOK AT HIS HOME......

                                      Davis kicked in the door of her former boyfriend's trailer.

Police: Killed teen claimed he had a gun

A young man carrying what turned out to be a hairbrush died Monday night in a hail of bullets fired by New York police.

Some comments posted is directed that Black America is the root of all todays problems. And White America live in a perfect glass house. Let's shatter that myth....

Police: Boy Killed Parents, Didn't Want To 'Disappoint' Them Anymore

Jacob Brighton said he shot his parents last month because he always felt like a disappointment to them because he didn't have a job, smoked marijuana and didn't share the same "qualities or interests" as his father

Vampire cult leader gets death sentence in Florida
Rod Ferrell, 17"a disturbed young man," a judge sentenced the teen-age leader of a vampire cult to Florida's electric chair Friday for the beating deaths of a middle-age couple.

Teen Rapes Mother To Get Revenge On Brother Police say 16-year-old Gary Helms, Jr., raped his 45-year-old mother this past weekend at Willow Terrace Trailer Park on Doyle Drive in Albertville.

Couple Says They Are Afraid Of Their 13-Year-Old Son
VILLE, Fla. -- A Brevard County couple is willing to abandon their own child because they are afraid of him. The parents said the 13-year-old boy has violent outbursts and has even threatened to kill them.

Teen kills family for insurance money On the morning he was to graduate from high school, Scott Moody (search) walked a half-mile to his grandparents' farmhouse and began what authorities say was the first stop in a gruesome murder-suicide that ended in six deaths. Moody shot his grandparents with a .22-caliber rifle before heading home, where he went from bedroom to bedroom, shooting his mother, teenage sister and two friends.
I wonder were the problem really is in this society, toy gun toting black kid or a disfunctional white kid.

  African American said:
Some comments posted is directed that Black America is the root of all todays problems. And White America live in a perfect glass house. Let's shatter that myth...


I can give example of most anything...

Fact is blacks do most of the crime, over 50%, and are about 12-15% of the population. Look at the news everyday and a overwhelming amount of the crime is committed by blacks.

Why are so many blacks  arrested and jailed?  Because they did the crime.

Conclusion...draw you own.

Answer this, if you had a chance to move into Southwind or LeMoyne Gardens, where would you go and why?


  African American said:
I wonder were the problem really is in this society, toy gun toting black kid or a disfunctional white kid.
November 13, 2007 11:45 PM  


Get real, its neither, it is the young black banger, you know it, I know it. But will you admit it?

Would you come closer to walking through a group of young white men on the street or a group of young black men?

Why is there more crime in Hickory Hill than in Bartlett?

Why is there more crime in the Detroit than in lets say, Seattle?

Why?  You know the reason.

Show me one city that has prospered under black rule,
Just one.

I give you Detroit, DC, East St Louis, Memphis.

Blacks clean up your own "hood" and you will get the respect you want.

But no, Lets blame whitey, we were slaves, we have been oppressed (sold by your own, remember that)

You are still slaves, owned by Master Jackson, Master Sharpton, Master Food Stamp, Master Welfare.  

Now you will say more whites are on welfare than blacks, ok thats a fact,  because they make up more than 70% of the population.    

Facts are facts.

And while you are at it name me one neighbor hood that property values have increased when blacks moved in.  I know one where my friends lived in, 240 K and up when they purchased, had to sell for 150K just to unload it, 4 years later. Why, the builders started running "move in specials" and the blacks came in droves. Yes my friends moved because of the drugs and crime increase. Now 7 years later it is a cesspool.

What happens to a youth accused of a crime in America depends on his color. If he's black or Hispanic, a national report released yesterday showed, he's far more likely to be arrested, held in detention and convicted than if he's white.

Black youths are six times more likely to be incarcerated than whites, even when they are charged with the same crimes and have never been in detention before. Those charged with drug offenses are 48 times more likely than whites to be sentenced to juvenile institutions.

At each stage of the process, from the time police interview a child until he is sentenced, "it gets more racist," said Michael Jones, researcher for the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. "America has to confront its very ugly problem."

Here's the difference Black youths 15% of the population

They make up 26% of the arrests, this is where it changes

White teens that commit crimes 39% is referred to juvenile courts never being arrested, no criminal record.

White teens that get reduced charges once making it to criminal courts being referred back to juvenile courts 46%

Where as 58% of black youths Are committed to state prison. Where is the fairness it that.

It seems to me that White America see their children who will,


Teen Rapes Mother To Get Revenge On Brother Police say 16-year-old Gary Helms, Jr., raped his 45-year-old mother this past weekend at Willow Terrace Trailer Park on Doyle Drive in Albertville.

Police: Boy Killed Parents, Didn't Want To 'Disappoint' Them Anymore
Jacob Brighton said he shot his parents last month because he always felt like a disappointment to them because he didn't have a job, smoked marijuana and didn't share the same "qualities or interests" as his father

There is only one conclusion justice is blind when dealing white white and black teens let's face if "RAPING YOUR OWN MOTHER" isn't the sickest thing a child can do.

Then there is hope for the Columbine Shooters 17-year-old Dylan Klebold and 18-yr old Eric Harris to get a statue in there honor.

Never said it was fair, just saying blacks are more likely to commit crimes.

How many black youths are repeat offenders? I really don't know.

Circumstances of the crimes impact the charges. Big difference in a kid carrying a lid of pot vs a kid selling crack.

Is rape of you own mom worse that raping and mudering an 80 year old lady?
hard to say.

Bottom line is this. Charge the offenders equally, I agree there.  But stop blaming  the inequity in the punishment.  Stop committing the crime.

Would you come closer to walking through a group of young white men on the street or a group of young black men?

Why is there more crime in Hickory Hill than in Bartlett?

Why is there more crime in the Detroit than in lets say, Seattle?

Why?  You know the reason.

Show me one city that has prospered under black rule,
Just one.

I give you Detroit, DC, East St Louis, Memphis.

Blacks clean up your own "hood" and you will get the respect you want.

But no, Lets blame whitey, we were slaves, we have been oppressed (sold by your own, remember that)

You are still slaves, owned by Master Jackson, Master Sharpton, Master Food Stamp, Master Welfare.  

Now you will say more whites are on welfare than blacks, ok thats a fact,  because they make up more than 70% of the population.    

Facts are facts.

You are right it isn't fair but if the numbers are continually being fudged then the data that is being used is flawed and inaccurate too base any solid judgment on.

The only thing is certain that from my study by research a white kid will be smacked on the head today and will kill you in your sleep tonight.

What kid Rapes his own mother,  16-year-old Gary Helms, Jr.

What kid kills his parents Didn't Want To 'Disappoint' Them Anymore 15yr Jacob Brighton

what kid kill neighbors and drink their blood Vampire cult leader Rod Ferrell, 17"

What kid execute his entire family for money  18-yr Scott Moody

And what kid is coming home with an unknown  to grudge bare.

You made your point, now answer the questions.  No fudging here just simple easy to answer questions.


Would you come closer to walking through a group of young white men on the street or a group of young black men?

Why is there more crime in Hickory Hill than in Bartlett?

Why is there more crime in the Detroit than in lets say, Seattle?

Why?  You know the reason.

Show me one city that has prospered under black rule,
Just one.


Facts are facts.

Answer this, if you had a chance to move into Southwind or LeMoyne Gardens, where would you go and why?

 African America said:
You are right it isn't fair but if the numbers are continually being fudged then the data that is being used is flawed and inaccurate too base any solid judgment on.

You are right, so that prehaps negates the validity of the "stats" you use as well, can't have it both ways.

Watch the news each week and write down the number of blacks being held aressted detained, vs the number of whites........then do the percentage.

Come on now, Orange Mound or Southwind???

There is not 1 self respecting person, that if given the chance would choose to live in the hood, than in a safe neighborhood. True many can't leave, but those that could leave will leave.  I can take you to many older neighborhoods in this city that were great places to live, and now, they are @#$%holes. Guess what, not 1 went from predominately black to predominately white and got worse, not 1.

Hickory Hill?
Whitehaven?

  African America said:
What happens to a youth accused of a crime in America depends on his color. If he's black or Hispanic, a national report released yesterday showed, he's far more likely to be arrested, held in detention and convicted than if he's white.

There is a easy way to fix this, because it IS a problem......stop doing the crime!
It is that simple, don't mess up, don't go to jail....easy, effective, sensible.

why don't u and that homo bigorgange77 kill yourself? i hope i see u sisy's in the street one day

iz be livin in da hood in da mound.  safest place n memphis.  dem kids be up all nite with da hose on da head breakn n dem folks cars, gang bangn.  why dem kids b havn womens hose on dem heads?  dey b snatchn grandmas panty hose?

i belive that the child sould not have been out at night without an adult
with him that's what's wrong with the world today mom's and dad's just don't care what their kid's are doing or where they are at now day's if his mom or dad had been with him maybe this wouldn't have happend and a young life could have been saved but the fact is they weren't and as for the police officer i belive he was just doing his job he thought that the kid had a gun and he did what he needed to do people don't know what the officers go through each day when they go to work to help keep us safe so how can anyone say he did the wrong thing they can't because they were not there and they don't konw how it feels to be at a job where you have to wonder if it will be you last day on the job because of some one with a gun the officers that are out there have family just like everyone else and if i was out on the streets of west memphis keeping everyone else safe then i would do what i had to do to keep myself safe as well so everyone needs to stop and think aboyt that for a moment and then think if it was them and they thought someone was coming at them with a gun what would they do

SO SO RIGHT BARTLETTMAN

These police officer were cleared by state and fed.  The police have a hard job, they have to see anyone and everyone as a threat.  (black or white)  This was a tragedy.  But the officers thought they were in danger.  Why should these officers lose their jobs for doing their jobs.  I know they wish they could change what happened.  But what is done is done.  These officers have to live with this the rest of their lives.  I'm sure anyone else in thier shoes would have done the same thing . To protect and sever and that was what they were doing.  Why was a 12 year out and where was his parents?  They know he had that toy gun.  My childern do not have anything that I don't know about.  The truth be told they bought it for him and now they have to live with the guilt and what someone else to blame.

I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS WAS ABOUT RACE!!!! It is about two officers doing their jobs.  Get over it.  Will it bring this child back if you ruen these mens lives?  Why is it always about race?  I believe that black people are more racest that white peolpe.  It's about what they can get now.  If they do not get thier way it's racest.  Or this country owes them something, it's all about getting something for nothing.  Jesse jackson and Big AL only make things worse.  White peolpe do not have NAACP or all white colleges, white teachers this or white that.  The truth is black peolpe make the race problems not the white peolpe and not the police officers that were only doing their jobs.

I HAVE READ SPEAK OUT ON THE WEB AND IN THE EVENING TIMES. IT IS SAD THAT BLACK AND WHITE PEOPLE HAVE RACIAL ISSUES WITH EACH OTHER. I BET BOTH RACES HAVE WHITE OR BLACK FRIENDS AND NEITHER RACE DISCUSS THESE CASE (FARROW,CHIEF PAURDERT) WITH EACH OTHER FACE TO FACE.  IT SHOULD BE DESTOYED IT'S A HAVEN FOR TENSION LET IT GO.

I MYSELF HAVE LIVED AND WORKED IN WEST MEMPHIS. IT SAD YOU CANT EARN A DECENT DOLLAR IN THE CITY.  IT WILL ALWAYS BE A LOW PAY CITY AS LONG AS THEIR  ARE  PEOPLE WHO DO NOT FIGHT FOR MORE WAGES. I EARN $ 16.00 HR. FOR MY PROFESSION ON THE OTHER HAND IN WEST MEMPHIS AT CRITTENDEN THE PAY IS $ 8.50 HR. THAT SAD YALL. COST OF LIVING IS RISING BUT THE PAY IS NOT. IM A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL IN THE MEMPHIS AREA. MOST OF THE VECHILES ON THE PARKING LOTS IN MEMPHIS IS FROM ARKANSAS. HOW MUCH LONGER DO WEST MEMPHIAN HAVE TO DEPEND ON MEMPHIS FOR JOBS, DECENT RESTAURANTS, CLOTHING STORES, NIGHT LIFE, MOVIES, BETTER HOUSING AND MOST OF WAGES.

SO PLEASE LETS STOP THE FIGHTING AND GET TOGETHER AS INDIVIDUALS AND FIGHT FOR A BETTER WEST MEMPHIS AND DECENT JOBS AND BETTER HOUSING.  

I am glad former, Officer Sammis resigned. The fact is De Ante Farrow was a child. He looked like a child, and I find it hard to believe that Officer Sammis thought he was an adult. How tall was this child? How tall is former, Officer Sammis? Again, I am glad he resigned. He finally did the right thing. If his judgement is that poor, that he must kill a child, then his judgement is too poor to be a good police officer. I believe he had problems before he killed this child. Officer Sammis should not take out his anger on Mr. Bailey, the attorney who also did the right thing in helping an innocent mother and a deceased victim in their quest for some justice. He can't bring back De Ante Farrow. His memory lives on in my heart. jis4janice

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