Philly gone to shit, help us Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Man, 19, stable after Nicetown shooting Tue Mar 28, 8:23 AM ET
Man found shot to death on N. Phila. street Tue Mar 28, 8:23 AM ET
Body found at West Phila. school is identified Tue Mar 28, 8:23 AM ET
Phila. man pleads guilty in role in rape Tue
I copied the top 4 stories from the Philly Inquirer. This whole town has been spiraling into violence over the last two years. The other day there were 5 separate shootings....on a weeknight. 2 of those people died.
Compounding the trouble is a wave of violence against people who testify against the shooters. The same day as the 5 shootings, 2 people in separate cases recanted eye witness testimony saying that they 'forgot'. One of those cases was over a 7 year old boy who was killed by a stray bullet from a gunfight.
Everymorning I'm shocked at how many people were killed as I slept. At night my elevated train passes safely over the burned-out neighborhoods where the trouble is. West Philly actually LOOKS like a war zone. A block of row homes may be half inhabited at best, with one house charred, one collapsed, and two demolished and gone. The rest are boarded. Trash is blowing from pile to pile, metal rusting down, paint hanging loose.
Visually it's rich with the texture of oxidation and rubble. Unfortunately we're talking about somebody's home.....
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