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Topic: Honors student, 15, who performed with school band and drill team at Obama´s inaugural celebrations shot dead in Chicago |
Honors student, 15, who performed with school band and drill team at Obama´s inaugural celebrations shot dead in Chicago
Daily Mail [UK], by Lydia Warren
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 1/30/2013 10:57:29 AM
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| A 15-year-old honors student who performed at President Obama´s inaugural events in Washington D.C. last week has been fatally shot in a Chicago park. Hadiya Pendleton had been let out early from school on Tuesday after an exam and was huddling under a canopy in a South Side park to escape the rain when she was shot in the back. A witness said around 10 students in the park scattered when a man opened fire. Hadiya and another teen collapsed a block away in front of one of the upscale homes lining Oakenwalk Avenue. The tragic death comes days
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
debster, 1/30/2013 11:03:29 AM (No. 9148431)
Address the gang problems in Chicago instead of law-abiding citizens and the NRA, you fools! This is an outrage! My heart hurts for this girl and her family.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bpl40, 1/30/2013 11:06:33 AM (No. 9148436)
Perhaps more unconstitutional restrictions on law abiding citizens will do the trick? These guys will never learn.
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kiwinews, 1/30/2013 11:17:08 AM (No. 9148479)
The word tragic gets thrown around a lot, but this is. So many possibilities for a good woman cut off before she had a chance. Rahm is presiding over Beriut West, with no plans to fix it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lydwho, 1/30/2013 11:22:38 AM (No. 9148494)
Why in the world did the parents of this girl let her hang around with a known gang???
Art
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
freightdog, 1/30/2013 11:28:22 AM (No. 9148509)
A terrible waste of a young life and a horrific situation. After reading Tom Wolfe´s "Bonfire of the Vanities", questions always arise when the words "honor student" appear in the lead lead sentence of a story about the wanton murder of a school aged youth. Especially when the victim was supposed to be in school but, instead, is part of a group of people who the police describe as gang members. Are students in Chicago allowed to leave school after completing a test as is reported here? Say what? And the 17 year old male student who was wounded, was he allowed to leave school after finishing a test? Additionally, from the story, it appears that the police are getting no cooperation from anyone who was in the park at the time of the shooting.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
nimby, 1/30/2013 11:30:58 AM (No. 9148519)
This, despite the strict gun laws!! And all these buffoons lecture the rest of the country!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
wilarrbie, 1/30/2013 11:48:22 AM (No. 9148560)
#5 knows to read between the lines and to point out the unasked questions in a story. But these are things we´re not meant to know, as that would not fit the template media has created for us. Here´s another question unanswered: What percentage of Chicago gang murders are ever prosecuted? There´s a lot of unfettered lawbreaking criminals running around with guns who are glossed over, while the law ABIDING gun owners are under a microscope and in danger of having their constitutional rights taken from them.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
fayebeck, 1/30/2013 12:03:33 PM (No. 9148589)
An "honor" student in a public school means the student may be able to "read" at a third grade level. I´ve got a great idea. Let´s institute more "conflict resolution" classes in schools. That should work this time.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
belwhatter, 1/30/2013 12:22:07 PM (No. 9148631)
Rahm does not appear to have what it takes to use his own crisis for the betterment of his city. Chicago and Detroit, two different cities both damned to their own particular h*ll.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec, 1/30/2013 12:31:15 PM (No. 9148648)
@#4: Never assume parents know better and she may have been near gang members but not hanging around with them.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
The Advocate, 1/30/2013 12:31:55 PM (No. 9148654)
Rahms own children go to an elite privte chocolate with armed guards- the same one the Obama girls used to attend. He dressed down a reporter for daring to ask about where his children´s went to school. In Philadelphia, DC, Chicagoland LA and NYC AlLDem politicians black and white send their children to private school with guards and condemn their mostly black constituency to sub standard schools controlled by union thugs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
msjena, 1/30/2013 12:36:46 PM (No. 9148664)
Look at the pictures. She doesn´t look like someone who was hanging around with gangs. We don´t have a gun problem in Chicago. We have a gang problem. Also, people who live on the North side are totally insulated and oblivious to what is happening in South side neighborhoods. Count Rahm among those people.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
woodsman, 1/30/2013 12:39:05 PM (No. 9148667)
Chicongo
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
udanja99, 1/30/2013 2:51:15 PM (No. 9148916)
Rahm didn´t run for mayor in order to help the city. He ran so that he could control the voter fraud leading to zippy´s reelection. There´s a reason why zippy´s election headquarters were in Chicago.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
rocco49, 1/30/2013 4:35:41 PM (No. 9149147)
OK, duh, kids get shot in Chicago so lets take away the guns from folks in Florida! That´ll fix it!
Lazy liberal asses never fix ANYTHING!!! But they always seem to con the foolish idiots into electing them. Welcome to the new Bizarro World of America.
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