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Caution And Sports
I was two over, in the 6th Ward, a few days ago, and I was talking to a young man I have known for some years. He said he was hanging around looking for the person who stole his bag. “It had a .38 in it,” he said.
This young man was not of the criminal element, is positioned in such a way that he will likely rise far above his rather difficult environment, and had purchased the gun because things were “getting kind of crazy” in the town in which he spends part of his time. I took an invisible big deep breath and wondered, with no visible expression, just how much crazier could things be than they are in this neighborhood he grew up in?
“I got the papers for it,” he said.
“Really?” I said.
“Yes,” he said.
“I know you don’t want to do this anymore than I would want to but you really have the call the cops about this.”
“I know, but...”
“Yeah well, maybe you wouldn’t want to have them show up right here on this street but you could go down to the station or...”
“I have some friends on the force I could call,” he said.
“Please call them...you know...if it gets used in a crime and traced back to you...you don’t need that...there’s nothing good about that.”
“I’ll call,” he said.
We then talked about sports for awhile. He likes Carmello Anthony over Lebron James. I tend to agree