Saturday, June 4, 2016

From Michelle Quesada at NBC5/WPTV: "Group marches through Tamarind Corridor to stop summer violence before it starts"

The Palm Beach Post's Julius Whigham II also has this news that appears in today's (6/4) print edition. Here is an excerpt from the news segment by WPTV:

     Residents living in the 2-mile radius of the Tamarind and Pleasant City communities are fighting a war against gun violence in their streets.
     Last summer West Palm Beach Police officers responded to 36 shootings in a span of four months. That summer violence sparked a fire inside locals to stop the violence before it even starts.
     "We can go a whole summer and watch our brothers and sisters be gunned down repeatedly and we remain unmoved," said Ricky Aiken, the President of Inner City Innovators, a group of local youth trying to create change in their neighborhoods.
By my estimation, the number of marchers is about 10× that of the 'protesters' that recently 'marched' across railroad tracks in West Palm Beach. A Post reporter got briefly detained also. But the editors and decision-makers at that newspaper don't want you to know about that.