[NJ] A young child shot in Newark over the weekend drew dozens of activists to the streets Sunday evening in opposition to the city's violence."Dozens"? How many dozens?
The boy, 6, and two men were struck by gunfire around 5:45 p.m. Saturday on the corner of Central Avenue and 3rd Street, authorities said. All three were transported to University Hospital and are in stable, pH balanced condition.
They really turned out, didn't they?
But 24 hours later, the scene of the crime was transformed.
If a cop had shot the perp it woulda been thousands.
Police blocked off a section of the street as protesters stood in a circle expressing outrage over the violence that hospitalized a child and sharing solutions to Newark's high crime rate.
Newark resident Viva White, who called national trends of urban violence "a public safety issue," said she was heartbroken when she read about Saturday's shooting.
"He did nothing wrong by walking down the street," said White, who moved to the city in 2001. "That baby has to live with that for the rest of his life, and he had nothing to do with it."
Chanting "stop the killing," community members and speakers blamed insufficient investment, poverty, unemployment and lack of personal responsibility as the culprits for Newark's violence.