A reader doing a ride-along with Metro Patrol tipped us off about a shooting in the parking lot of the Boston Market in Westport early Saturday morning. He tells us Westport was packed with police cars after the shooting.
The police report says officers patrolling clearing out the streets just before 3 a.m. heard gunshots and traced it back to Boston Market's parking lot at 4040 Mill Street.
Officers running toward the lot saw several muzzle flashes and two men
running toward an Oldsmobile. One of the men bailed from the
car, tossed a handgun, which had 14 live rounds in the
magazine and a spent shell casing in the chamber, and ran.
Police took a 22-year-old man into custody. Meanwhile, the other man escaped.
Four spent shell
casings were recovered at the restaurant's entrance.
A witness later told police that she saw a group of people arguing and
then a suspect got in a red Mercedes, leaving the two men in the parking
lot. The Mercedes backed up and a man in the passenger seat started
firing a silver handgun. The vehicle drove off westbound on Mill.
A Westport security guard also reported seeing a black male with dreads in a white T-shirt firing a handgun.
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That would be 95 % of shootings,murders......are aa....just facts that's all....c$*ns
I understand much better now. The word "the" in front of any word to describe a group does make it sound different. I was being serious though, I wasn't sure why Orientals would be more or less offensive than Asians. I don't know why referring to someone by their ethnic or racial background has to be offensive. I'm not embarrassed when someone calls me Irish, Welsh, or protestant. Thanks for clarifying that!
I should have said "The Orientals." I wasn't being entirely serious either. Oriental these days is generally understood to have some negative connotations, so Asian has been taken on as the P.C. term. But that's less what I was commenting on. I'm just always reminded of a crotchety old lady/man who hasn't updated their terminology with the times when I see or hear "The" in front of a term used to describe a whole group of people. The Gays, The Blacks, you get the picture. It usually just makes me snicker.
Why does he have to be racist for using the term orientals? Is asians more appropriate? He's just making light of the fact that 90% of the time someone is shot up there, it's a black guy doing it. Not racism, but humor with a harsh but accurate statistical foundation.
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