From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, another incident in that rectangle of southeastern Wisconsin running Milwaukee to Madison to the Illinois state line that generates so much iSteve content: Kenosha, Waukesha, etc., etc.
Sophie Carson
Drake BentleyRACINE – Two people were shot at Racine’s Graceland Cemetery Thursday afternoon during a funeral for a man killed by police.
… The shooting occurred at the interment for Da’Shontay L. King Sr., the man fatally shot by Racine police May 20, King’s sister, Natasha Mullen said.
“We were at the gravesite trying to get prepared to bury him, and bullets started flying everywhere,” she said.
A Racine police officer fatally shot King, 37, during a traffic stop about two weeks ago. Police said they were carrying out a search warrant on a vehicle when King, who they said had a handgun, ran from the car.
The officer, Zachary B. Brenner, then fatally shot King. It’s unclear exactly why Brenner shot King. Racine police said King “took an action” that prompted Brenner to shoot, but the Wisconsin Department of Justice did not mention such an action in a statement.
… Tre Brantley, 19, was playing basketball at Lockwood Park, next to the cemetery, when suddenly “bullets were whistling past us.”
Brantley said it’s remarkable that no one at the park was hit. …
Brantley, who lives nearby, commented on the spread of gun violence.
“You move out of bad neighborhoods only for the same thing to happen here,” he said.
… Miller estimates 20 to 30 bullets were fired in a quick barrage, followed by a handful of single shots.
As I wrote on September 2, 2020 in “Just Knock It Off”:
My guess is that there are some low-hanging fruit in contemporary African-American culture—absurdly dysfunctional tendencies—that should and could be made taboo.
For example, there should be a cultural proscription on the disgraceful practice of shooting up funerals and other memorial services. Self-respecting criminals should be ashamed to do that. For example, on Aug. 22 Harry Siegel of the New York Daily News reported:
An 18-year old, with a two-week-old baby, was shot dead Wednesday just outside Prospect Park on his way to a vigil for a 42-year-old who’d been shot dead Sunday after he’d gone to a vigil for a 28-year-old who’d been shot dead the previous Wednesday.
If this chain of memorial murders were a virus, it would have an R naught of 1.0.
… From not shooting up funerals, we could then move on, in baby steps, to establishing a new norm that it is disgusting to shoot at somebody in a crowd rather than to wait until he’s alone.
And, eventually… Stop thinking you need to kill a guy for dissing you. You feel mad at the moment, but in the long run, you will be okay. In contrast, your committing murder brings shame on your race.
Instead, however, our society has been pushing in the opposite direction, promoting in blacks an ever-growing sense of megalomania and impunity.
How’s that working out for us?
