Evette Jeffrey, a 16-year-old innocent bystander with her whole future ahead of her, was doing nothing more than riding her scooter outside a Bronx school when cops believe a 14-year-old boy — 14! …
Evette Jeffrey, 16, with her whole future ahead of her, was just riding her scooter outside a Bronx school when cops believe a 14-year-old boy —Police say it began with a gang-related melee Monday afternoon.
From video, it appears the boy began firing after being punched; one bullet hit Evette, a classic innocent bystander.NYC’s poised for delirious joy with the Knicks on the brink of historic triumphAnd where would he get the idea that the proper response to a punch is to whip out a firearm and let loose? Parents, as Mayor Eric Adams suggested, have a duty to be vigilant about their children’s whereabouts and activities; he’s right to urge checking kids’ backpacks and bedrooms. And of course adults should steer their kids away from violence — and violent crowds., a good part of the blame also lies with New York’s criminal-justice system, which now sends a blaring signal that thugs, especially kids, will face scant consequences for criminal actions. Indeed, the Raise the Age law — signed by then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2017 and backed by now-Gov. Kathy Hochul — protected teens under 18 from facing charges in adult criminal courts for all but the most serious crimes. That encouraged over-18 gangbangers to use younger kids as mules to carry their weapons, rightly figuring they’d escape serious consequences if caught. Meanwhile, cashless bail and other criminal-justice “reforms,” plus soft-on-crime prosecutors and judges, reinforced New York’s “anything goes” crime climate.Do lawmakers who still support those “reforms” — Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, Senate Majority Leader Andrew Stewart Cousins, Hochul — even care?Some of Silicon Valley's most prominent schools have ditched honors classes in the name of equity — but it's a terrible ideaCeltics nightmare comes true as superstar undergoes surgery for devastating injury in potential franchise-changing setback Cassie claims Diddy controlled 'freak-off' sessions down to the last disgusting detail, names ‘trusted assistants’ who arranged them
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