There's a blue light special on homemade bombs.
"Spoiled kid" Nicholas Browning "didn't like his father because he used to always yell at him and stuff."
Allan A. Banks was charged with murdering Collin Mazyck on Tivoli Ave. last month. Mazyck's family say he was walking to a Chinese restaurant, but police are investigating the possibility that he was robbed while buying weed.
Ex-offenders are working with the Baltimore Health Department to try to stop the violence in the city.
"It's gonna take [guys] like us in the 'hood," (Donte) Barksdale, 33, was saying to a young man he met on Monument Street last week, not far from the Safe Streets office, pressing a flier into the youth's hand. "The police can't do it. It's impossible."
Aspiring criminals, be careful with that next tattoo.
The Examiner profiles Baltimore County Police Chief James Johnson.
Lawsuit: Monogamous spouse smeared as ‘swinger’
Kid's Corner!
Here's that Sun editorial that's annoying everyone: "At 15, still a kid"
WTF?! Bus-beating defendant doesn't understand the words "justified" or "initial."
A program by correctional officers scares 11-year-olds straight with the spectre of public pooping.
11 comments:
Get raised in a wealthy family with no boundries set, become a spoiled person with no moral grounding then kill your parents for easy money. Happened before, will happen again. Anyone remember the Menendez brothers
Get raised like this in a poor family you don't kill your family, there is nothing to be gained.
Well according to the Baltimore Sun that spoiled, murdering socipath should be tried in juvenille court so that he can receive "treatment." That editorial alone made me hope that the Sun ends up going out of business.
Yeah no kiddin hoco-- proof that spoiling your children is hazardous to your health!
Quick n easy formula for creating a little criminal: whenever possible, give them whatever they want, and when they misbehave, excuse and defend their behavior.
Not saying that those parents deserved such a rotten son in the least, but a Ford Explorer at 16?!
Not just crazy indulgent, but dangerous to the child and everyone else on the road-- if you must buy a 16-year-old a car, it need to be like, a 1983 Mercury Marquis. And make 'em work to pay their own insurance at least!
The Sun said it was an Expedition, not an Explorer. The kid probably would've killed his family way sooner if he got a crappy Explorer for his birthday.
oh whups. Can't keep all those bloated gas-guzzling deathtraps straight.
Heh, the ten year old Nissan Sentra that I drove in high school helped make me the stable, well-adjusted person I am today.
There's an update on the Zach Sowers website. On Sunday, March 9th there's going to be a second Baltimore Neighbors's Night Out to help raise money for Zach's care.
I just read Rodricks column on jury duty, and it's a little sickening.
The man obviously has no idea how the criminal justice system works, and I'm willing to speculate that the Defendant was offered a deal and refused it, leaving the state three options.
First, offer a better deal, second, nolle prosse the case, third, take it to trial.
The first two are unacceptable in my opinion, and in the ideal, well funded system, every winnable case should go to trial.(Nothing like Baltimore). And in this instance, if the young man was guilty, as he was found to be, then the prosecution shouldn't bend over backwards to offer him a sweetheart deal but should move forward with the case.
I applaud Mr. Rodricks for doing his civic duty, but decry him for finding the process to be unnecessary.
"Sit down - I'M NOT A DUDE!"
Maybe not the guy you want working the Inner Harbor, eh?
I think its a bit unfair to demonize the parents in the Browning case just because they gave the kid an Expedition. I went to a particular small liberal arts school where 50% of the students drove brand new Jeep Grand Cherokees - none of them killed their parents and despite the fact that many had trustfunds, few were shitheads. Many of my fellow students were conscientious citizens and all were good students, despite the fact that many drove cars worth more than my parent's net worth and many of the other girls had more designer purses than I had pairs of cheap Old Navy jeans.
By all accounts this is a family that took vacations together and did not have the sterotypical "uninvolved workaholic" father figure. If his dad was "yelling at him all the time" then chances are his parents weren't "giving him whatever he wanted and excusing his behavior when he misbehaved." I'm not saying I'd give my 16-year-old (when I have one) a brand new Expedition. But I think we need to hold off from making sweeping generalizations about how the parents' financial situation and gifts they gave their children created what appears to be a sociopath.
i agree with lucid. this kid killed his little brothers too, not just his parents, who are the only people in his immediate family who could have spoiled him or disciplined him, either way. there is something deeper at work than just a spoiled kid not getting the car he wanted.
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