Not my words, but the words of columnist Joe Brown who happens to be black.
An excerpt from his column,
The first three months of this year have been some of the most violent I can remember in Tampa, with 15 homicides so far. In a 10-day span last month, three teenagers were gunned down, one of them a 14-year-old attending a birthday party.
So in the spirit of the Black Lives Matter movement that has been sweeping the nation since late last year, I’ve been waiting for mass protests locally denouncing these killings of mostly young black men. But there has not been the outrage I was looking for because the “stop snitching” culture that plagues black communities across the nation is alive and well, so much so that at a news conference last week, Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor had to plead with residents to help law enforcement bring the shooters to justice.
“We get very little cooperation from the witnesses, and in most cases, from the victims in these shootings that have gone on the past three months,” said Castor, adding that “historically we haven’t had much help from those out there in the community” in spite of her department’s increased efforts to reach out.
Here is the entire column https://tbo.com/list/columns-jbrown/if-black-lives-matter-start-snitching-20150402/
An excerpt from his column,
The first three months of this year have been some of the most violent I can remember in Tampa, with 15 homicides so far. In a 10-day span last month, three teenagers were gunned down, one of them a 14-year-old attending a birthday party.
So in the spirit of the Black Lives Matter movement that has been sweeping the nation since late last year, I’ve been waiting for mass protests locally denouncing these killings of mostly young black men. But there has not been the outrage I was looking for because the “stop snitching” culture that plagues black communities across the nation is alive and well, so much so that at a news conference last week, Tampa Police Chief Jane Castor had to plead with residents to help law enforcement bring the shooters to justice.
“We get very little cooperation from the witnesses, and in most cases, from the victims in these shootings that have gone on the past three months,” said Castor, adding that “historically we haven’t had much help from those out there in the community” in spite of her department’s increased efforts to reach out.
Here is the entire column https://tbo.com/list/columns-jbrown/if-black-lives-matter-start-snitching-20150402/
