I feel it is important to point out the statist perspective that can be seen in this video.
From the reference to human beings as ‘illegal’ and ‘suspects’ the attempt is to paint the victims of the violence of state as criminals or deserving of the violence and force inflicted upon them.
Even the injury is blamed on the individual trying to migrate. There is no acknowledgment of him trying to keep safe from men with guns who are hunting him and wish to control his movement. There is no acknowledgment that forcing others to do as you wish them to do is wrong there is the assumed concept that this man attempted to do what they threatened him with violence not to do.
Here human beings are being treated like animals by men with guns. Hunting and caging human beings is somehow seen as respectable in this. I can not justify such crimes.
The language at the end is most telling of the nature of the state. Here this man was rounded up and taken away by men with guns and they are kind enough to be “granted a voluntary return to Mexico”. If that does not bleed with Orwellian doublespeak I don’t know what does. Here they will let him go if he volunteers to do what they are dictating he does. There is nothing voluntary about any of it. It is forced, coercion.
Youth shot dead in SB Police suspect friend INFO WITH MUGS: Harvard is described as white, 5 feet 11 inches tall, 160 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. Arszmann is described as white, 5 feet 9 inches, weighing 142 pounds with brown hair and hazel ey
San Bernardino County Sun (San Bernardino, CA) January 8, 2006 | Kelly Rush, Andrew Silva; Nikki Cobb SAN BERNARDINO His name was Dustin Michael-Roy Namanny. He was 14. in our site highlights for brown hair
On Friday night, he became the city’s first homicide victim of 2006, shot dead in the home of a friend’s mother with whom he had been staying.
Police believe it was that friend 22-year-old David Jeffrey Harvard who shot Dustin and then fled.
“The person they accuse of killing Dustin loved him more than anything else,’ said Harvard’s mother, Cindy Harvard.
She had taken Dustin into her home when his mother lost her home because of “circumstances beyond her control,’ she said.
Police said Saturday that the shooting was not gang- or narcotics- related, that it appeared to be a domestic dispute.
It happened in the 900 block of Crescent Avenue, part of a rundown neighborhood that city leaders say is often plagued by crime. It happened at a time when the community public officials and residents alike is clamoring for a stand against violence and crime in a city that has ranked among the nation’s 25 most dangerous for the past two years.
On Saturday, members of Victory Outreach, an international network of churches ministering to mostly inner-city residents, walked the neighborhood where Dustin was killed.
Mayor Judith Valles condemned the crime and lamented the easy availability of guns legal or illegal.
Mayoral candidates James F. Penman and Pat Morris, campaigning for next month’s runoff election, reiterated their pledges to fight crime in the city.
And police searched for Harvard and a potential witness to the crime, Jason Lee Arszmann, 23, of Redlands.
Cindy Harvard, who was home at the time of the shooting, said she didn’t know what happened or why, but that her son had been close friends with Dustin for years.
“Dustin was a great kid. He made everyone around him happy,’ she said.
Manuel Rivera, a 30-year-old street team leader with Victory Outreach, arrived in the neighborhood Saturday afternoon unsure of exactly what had happened the night before.
He only needed to know some people needed help. He and a group from his church offered prayers and services to neighborhood residents.
“People need to know that somebody cares,’ Rivera said. “Right now this community there’s so many different communities hurting. And there’s no out.’ City leaders said Saturday that the fatal shooting underscores the need for a more aggressive and comprehensive war on crime.
Councilman Chas Kelley said the city has put Band-Aids on the violence, and it’s time to get serious about saving lives and making San Bernardino safe for families.
“My position is that one more killing clearly indicates to me that we have a crisis emerging in our city,’ Kelley said.
“The citizens expect us to do our job,’ he said. “Our job is to make sure the city is safe to shop, live, go to the park and be safe.’ Valles and Councilwoman Wendy McCammack said guns are a key issue.
“The sale of guns has run amok. There appears to be no control,’ Valles said. “I know people like to point to the Second Amendment but, nevertheless, these guns are getting into the hands of the element that is killing people.’ In another San Bernardino neighborhood on Saturday where gunfire is a far less common occurrence, a 14-year-old boy was accidentally shot in the chest. He and two other boys were home alone playing with a gun they thought they had unloaded. The wounded boy was reported in stable condition at Community Hospital of San Bernardino. this web site highlights for brown hair
McCammack said low-income neighborhoods sometimes breed illegal gun dealing, whether for commission of crimes or simply for family protection.
“Sometimes the family obviously felt like it needed to have a gun,’ she said, “and that raises questions in my mind as to how much parental responsibility is required to raise children and how much is the city’s responsibility to make sure the parents are treating the children well. “It’s a Catch-22.’ Improving the aesthetics and economic opportunities in the area are one place to start, but two candidates vying to replace Valles said plans to deter violence must include a crackdown on criminals.
“It’s fine to talk about prevention,’ said Penman, “but when innocent citizens are being killed on the streets it’s time for more no-nonsense zero-tolerance policing aimed at parolees, gangs and drug dealers. That’s the only thing that’s going to successfully turn around the wave of violence.’ However, he said, police can’t deter all crime.
Dustin’s death, for example, “appears to be a family situation that no amount of policing would have been able to prevent,’ he said.
Morris said “gun violence is a heinous and reprehensible crime’ in any form. He said the city should work to secure federal prosecutors to try individuals accused of trafficking guns and drugs.
“We need to make an example of these people, and federal prosecution with longer prison terms does that,’ he said.
Residents in the neighborhood where Dustin was killed reacted with subdued sympathy at news that another child in San Bernardino had been shot.
“That’s messed up,’ said 14-year-old Tony Williams Jr., who lives down the street and played on a Little League team with Dustin. “He’s just 14. I had just seen him 30 minutes before.’ Those who knew him said Dustin was a good kid.
“He had the most beautiful blue eyes. He was never disrespectful,’ said Rose Griffin. Her daughter and Dustin were friends and went to school together.
“He didn’t deserve to die. He never had a reason to go out like that,’ Griffin said. “He was always going going to school, going to play a game, going with his mom.’ Kelly Rush, Andrew Silva; Nikki Cobb
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