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WARNING SHOTS!!!
Retards with Guns
Be Carefull Out there!
Did you ever notice a makeshift memorial in the parking lot nearly across from the District 8 Substation on Camp Street? That is where a young man from Mt. Hope's Hector family fell, murdered in a drive by shooting, several years ago. This young man died because of a gun fued between youth gangs from the South Side of Providence and from the East Side of Providence. The Mt. Hope gang calls themselves the East Side Boyz. They are few in number, but what they lack in strength they make up for in stupidity.
Mt. Hope now faces the same situation again. Gang war between these two factions accounts for the alarming number of recent shootings in Providence. Shoot, retaliate, shoot! There have been a number of shootings and a murder already! The authorities have finally taken action!
Keep your head down, don't let your kids play outside, you don't want anyone in your family to be the victim of a stray bullet.
But all you Pollyannas out there, you just put on your pretty bonnets, and go about your business as usual.
Cicilline -- Soft on Crime -- Head in the Ground
You can lay this problem right on the doorstop of the Cicilline administration. You can't be soft on crime while pandering for votes without paying the price.
Now the police react to a crisis.
But how did the situation reach crises proportion? Haven't we been crying out for law enforcement? Haven't we been begging the City to stop the open-air drug market in Mt. Hope? Is it not the same drug dealers that haunt our Mt. Hope streets who are now engaged in a deadly war game that may cost some innocent person their life?
The answer is, yes, to all of the above.
Yes, the Cicilline administration let the situation reach crises proportion!
Yes, the Cicilline administration denied that the drug mural in Billy Taylor Park is a symbol of the embedded drug culture in Mt. Hope.
Yes, the Cicilline administration functions as an enabler to the embedded drug culture in Mt. Hope, pandering to other enablers who allow the drug culture to devastate their own neighborhood for profit and for votes!
Yes, the Cicilline administration now, tacitly admits, by their increase in Police presence in Mt. Hope, that there is indeed a problem with drug crime in Mt. Hope, and that it does need addressing before people get killed or someone gets voted out of office!
Congratulations, Mayor Cicilline, why don't you bring Esserman and your entire entourage down for another walk along Camp Street tomorrow evening on another exercise in damage control.
You're getting pretty good at damage control (or at least getting a lot of practice). You need it.
Be sure you keep your head down, though.
Like the citizens of Mt. Hope must do, now that you've let the crime situation get out of control.
Be Carefull Out There!
Posted at August 19, 2005 12:00 AM