Childhood on Baltimore's Streets

Suspect in shooting of girl, 5, had been put on home monitoring

A 17-year-old boy accused of firing the errant shot that struck a 5-year-old girl in the head last week had been placed on home monitoring just one day earlier after pleading guilty to a juvenile charge, multiple sources told The Baltimore Sun.

Lamont Davis was awaiting a bail review hearing Monday afternoon on two counts of attempted first-degree murder, as community leaders planned a vigil for the girl at the scene of the shooting...

...Marvin L. "Doc" Cheatham, president of the Baltimore chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said in an e-mail that a citywide prayer vigil is planned for 6 p.m. Monday in the 300 block of Pulaski St., where Thursday's shooting occurred.

"Never again can we allow such a tragic incident such as the shooting of one of our children to take place and 48 hours passes by and the men [of] Baltimore have not immediately come to the protection and aid of our children, our families and our communities," Cheatham wrote in an e-mail to other community leaders. "We are calling for an emergency meeting to urgently develop an immediate response and communication network that will enable us to do all that can be expected, desired and required of us."

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-shooting-girl0706,0,6045780.story?track=rss

The NAACP is ineffective once again. They want hold a prayer vigil. Nice. What they should have done was hold a surveillance vigil outside this 17-year old thug's house until he was put in prison.

Blacks in Baltimore complain they don't have safe streets, yet every time - and I mean every - that the police do something about criminal activity, they start screaming discrimination. It's an interesting argument, seeing as how these neighborhoods are all black, including the police.

But if they want safe streets and children who see their 6th birthday without hearing gunshots, they have to do a lot more than pray, as suggested by the NAACP.

The NAACP knows that, but they also know that if they solve the problem, then the reason for their existence goes away.