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…and that’s in Belgium, just imagine how it is in LA or North Saint Louis
True. The violence is not on American levels right now. But it still sucks to see the youth, who I come in contact with a lot through volunteering, get trapped in these endless cycles of violence. There’s a grenate thrown almost every week in the city. It was only a matter of time someone accidentally died.
This is not drug-related violence, but recently, a 14 year old girl was shot in a store 5 minutes from my house in LA by police who thought someone inside had a gun, but it turns out they didn’t. The bullet went through a wall and hit her, killing her. She was in a dressing room trying on clothes and didn’t even have a clue that anything was going on. Officer is on
paid administrative leavea paid vacation for 2 weeks and the family (who were recent immigrants) got nothing. They also killed the guy they thought might have a gun but didn’t, and it turns out he was also an immigrant. I’m absolutely sure it was a coincidence /s