‘Killing Is The Solution,’ Gang Member Tells Walter Jacobson

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‘Killing Is The Solution,’ Gang Member Tells Walter Jacobson « CBS Chicago

Gangbangers in Chicago: What makes them tick, what are they thinking?

CBS 2’s Walter Jacobson sat down with gang members in Chicago’s troubled Englewood neighborhood to try to find some answers.

Some of the responses he received were not encouraging.

“There’s no solution to the violence,” one gang member tells him. “Killing, killing is the solution.”

Jacobson asked the young man if he would kill personally, if he had to.

“I’ve never killed before, but if I had a gun in my possession,” he said.

Jacobson says he has been walking the blocks for many years, but the state of despair never changes – poverty, sticks and stains.

The gang members do not like the state of affairs any more than anyone else.

“We’ve got to eat. We want to. We want money. We want to get fresh, we want fresh eggs almost every day. We want all that,” another young man said.

But where do they get the money they need? The young man answered bluntly.

“Rob, steal and kill. That’s the only way. We didn’t grow up in Beverly Hills. We don’t get it handed to us,” he said.

“We ain’t living in Hyde Park,” added a third young man. The home of the University of Chicago is only a couple of miles away from Englewood – geographically, at least.

But given the state of their impoverished Englewood neighborhood, where is the money they can get?

“Selling drugs,” a young man replied. “In our neighborhood, I ain’t going to lie to you. That’s where the money comes from.”

Some of the young men were brought into gangs as children. Isn’t that pretty young to play gang warfare?

A young man answered: “I chose the gang. I didn’t have to choose anything. I was only 10. My OG (old gangster) gave me everything. But I just went on my own and I chose to get in the gang. We was whipping everybody in the neighborhood. Respect. I was getting money.”

The gang members also said they are at war with the Chicago Police Department.

“The police hate us,” a young man said. “Every time they ride past us, they shoot us down and do all that. Do what you want to do, I don’t care about you all, keep riding. Who are you all? We’re not scare of you all. I’ll fight you too. Take that badge off.”

But he says the police cannot catch them or exact any consequences.

“I laugh at the police,” he said. “They’re a joke to me.”

And where would the young men like to be in 10 years?

One of them replied, “in a mansion, with a lot of cars, and a lot of women.”

Another said, “I just hope I’m still living.”

 

[Prince Akeem]

Going to school and getting a education isn't even a consideration huh?



Lost nikkas.

 

[Serious]

Only if we talking about a girl(p*ssy) and she got me:




Real talk this situation is a bit complex and out of control. I really don't know how you derail the violence, it's almost like a mutating virus. On one hand you want these cats to quitting shooting each other and become productive, but most them are probably jobless, so in essence it make sense to rebel, if you don't know where your next meal is coming from. With that said, I still don't condone this behavior. Without incriminating myself, the stupid part is robbing and killing people within the same economic class, it would make more sense to...........

I'm still at odds, watching up and coming rapper Lil JoJo get killed.

Dude looked no older than 14, despite being 18, which is still young. I jus remember when I was growing up people got killed for doing far less, than what he was portraying in his music / online.

 

[newarkhiphop]

Bang bang

 

[Mowgli]

Let them kill each other until a leader overtakes all the gangs. Its the only way. There is order to violence and when that order is disturbed it starts over again until it apexes. The more theyd disturb this pattern the more money is made for prisons and for big business thats a good thing. Still murders go down every year