4 year-old girl shot in knee while walking in KC
Kansas City police were trying to determine how a 4-year-old was shot in the knee Monday night.
Her 24-year-old father and 21-year-old uncle gave police conflicting stories, police said. Police found the wounded girl with her mother on a sidewalk near 35th Street and Tracy Avenue just before 10 p.m. The girl’s injuries were not life-threatening.
The father said he and his daughter were walking east on 35th Street from Forest Avenue when an unknown person shot her.
But the uncle said he and the girl were walking west on 35th from Woodland Avenue, near his home, when an unknown person shot her. He said they walked to 35th and Virginia Avenue for help.
Police asked him why he walked past a fire station without stopping and why he didn’t call 911. He replied that he was headed to the place where the girl’s mother works near 35th and Virginia.
And here's the problem. Check out what the girl's father says to the police:
Police later asked the girl’/ father about the inconsistencies in the stories and the father allegedly told detectives, “I don’t need no (expletive) police!”
Oh, really? And how, Dad, are you going to keep your daughter safe and from being shot again, ever, in the future, if you don't need the police?
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This is another reason we need to re-think how we handle consensual crime. The police should not be perceived as the enemy. It would help if the police were seen as trying to primarily reduce violence and theft, not trying to enforce arbitrary moral values like drugs, gambling or sex.
See? We agree. On this we agree. I'm sure there are other things--more--we agree on.
The police should not--cannot--be viewed as the enemy. I'm not that naive and I'm not that much a Pollyanna on this. They're there to reduce the violence, theft and crime. They have to ask questions.
Crazy.
mr
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