Black pandering
Today’s Star had this photo of Mayor Greg Ballard, Public Safety Director Frank Straub and various law enforcement officers congratulating each other on the capture of 17-year-old Shamus Patton. He’s the person suspected of opening fire during Saturday night’s Black Expo Summer Celebration and shooting a total of nine young victims between the ages of 10 and 19 at two different locations before escaping a police net comprised of 500 police officers surrounding downtown. To watch these gentlemen patting themselves on the back at a press conference called to make the announcement of Patton’s arrest you would have thought they had just captured Osama bin Laden. I for one think they should have all been holding their heads in shame for their failed leadership in the wake of this past weekend’s milieu.
Nobody should have been surprised at what happened this past weekend. Indianapolis residents have become all too familiar of the news that comes out during the second weekend of Black Expo. This year’s shootings make five separate shootings that have occurred at Black Expo since 2006.
