SORRY, ANTONIO: NO POLITICAL UPSIDE FOR THE MEDIA TO COVER YOUR MURDER

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• I'll do this again, the story of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer is 1 that should be revisited. Now he died in 1994, but his story really personifies Chicago's extreme gang culture & it what it does to the city & it's population. This is the shorthand version, from Wiki...

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Sandifer

  Robert "Yummy" Sandifer (March 12, 1983 — September 1, 1994) was an American gang member whose murder by fellow gang members in Chicago, Illinois garnered national attention. He appeared on the cover of TIME magazine in September 1994.

  Nicknamed Yummy because of his love of chocolate chip cookies, Sandifer was a young member of the street gang the Black Disciples BD. After committing murder, arson and armed robbery, he was murdered by fellow gang members who feared he could become an informant, and that he was attracting too much attention towards their activities. Coverage of Sandifer's death and retrospectives on his short, violent life were widely published in the American media. Sandifer became a symbol of the gang problem in American inner cities, the failure of social safety nets, and the shortcomings of the juvenile justice system

  Early life

  Robert Sandifer was born on March 12, 1983. Sandifer's mother, Lorina Sandifer, had a history of over 30 misdemeanor arrests, many of which were drug related. Sandifer's father, Robert Akins, was absent for all of Sandifer's life due to incarceration. Sandifer was, according to child welfare authorities, severely mistreated and neglected. Before he was 3, Sandifer was already known to Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). Sandifer was alleged to have had cigarette burns on his arms and neck as well as linear bruising consistent with physical beatings. In 1986, Sandifer and his siblings were removed from his mother's home by DCFS and were sent to live with their grandmother. His grandmother's residence contained as many as 19 children on some occasions. By most accounts, his grandmother's home was not much better than Sandifer's previous home. Sandifer, by the age 8, quit attending school and began to roam the streets stealing cars and breaking into houses. In 1993, Sandifer and his siblings were removed from his grandmother's home and were sent to the Lawrence Hall DCFS shelter on Chicago's north side, from which Sandifer ran away and never returned. From 1993 until his death, Sandifer's whereabouts and living arrangements remain unclear, although he continued to be arrested by the authorities.

  Criminal behavior

  Yummy was known for bullying and extorting money from local children and the community in the Chicago neighborhood of Roseland. He liked luxury cars and, remarkably, was able to drive them despite his small stature. Many of his 23 felonies and 5 misdemeanors were committed in the course of running errands for street gangs. The penal system had no way to keep him out of trouble and the courts were helpless to lock him away because he was too young for juvenile detention and too dangerous to be placed with children his age.

  Death

  On August 28, 1994, Sandifer began harassing locals from his neighborhood. He opened fire several times with a 9 millimeter semiautomatic pistol, striking several youths. Sandifer quickly fled the scene. Shavon Dean, age 14, later died from her gunshot wounds. The crime spree made national headlines. The nation was shocked by the brutality of the crime and the fact that the alleged perpetrator was only 11 years old. The Chicago Police began a manhunt for Sandifer. According to Sgt. Ronald Palmer, of the Chicago Police, Sandifer's actions were a gang initiation gone wrong. On Wednesday, August 31, while still in hiding, Sandifer was met by brothers Cragg and Derrick Hardaway, ages 16 and 14, members of the Black Disciples street gang. Sandifer was told he was being taken some place safe and ordered into a waiting car. Instead, he was brought to a viaduct underpass and told to get on his knees. While on his knees, he was shot twice in the back of his head by Cragg and Derrick Hardaway. Sandifer's body was discovered by the Chicago Police Department in the early morning of September 1. Both Cragg and Derrick Hardaway were later convicted of Sandifer's murder.Sandifer's funeral was held at the Youth Center Church of God in Christ in Chicago's Northwest Side.

  • That version lines up with pretty much everything I have seen on his story, there is this piece, which goes deeper into it, which is excellent, but it is lengthy...

    http://thewashingtonsyndicate.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/true-crime-the-forgotten-story-of-robert-%E2%80%9Cyummy%E2%80%9D-sandifer/

    • I still do not believe that those in power in Chicago really care about the violence in their city, not enough to try something new anyways. Because those in power would lose their power & their seat at the table. That would disrupt the Chicago political machine, & the machine is far more important then those who are being killed in gang violence at an alarming rate. This includes the "community leaders", because they too would their place at the table as well. The violence creates the need for their "services", & being made redundant is not on the agenda.

• If only Antonio had been shot by a white person.

  • there's whites in chitcaca?

    • I believe the correct name is Chiraq.

• No money to be made when a minority gets shot by another minority. Race baiters like the Fat Rat and Jackson could care less.

• This is how liberals get thier own orgasms. They could care less when they stir that kettle of shit. Don't expect them to lick the spoon clean either. Homies don't play that way. Thier philosophy is you are a POS till you agree with them but once that orgasm has stopped, you're a POS again. This is how most polititions deal with people. It's a plastic world sometimes.

  • Their objective IS to stir the kettle of shit- otherwise you've hit the nail on the head.

• How can there possibly be any doubt that the mainstream media serve as a major weapon in the front lines of a war being waged against the population by the political elite. It causes us to divide up and hurt/kill one another- leaving the hands of our "leaders" clean.

  Antonio's murder doesn't fit the narrative.

• Yep, sorry Antonio, politics have taken center stage over humanitarian rights and, unfortunately, your loss is completely irrelevant to those that have placed themselves above the ignorant masses.

  I think most of us know that liberalism is just communism, Marxism, socialism, all wrapped into one putrid, corrupt, rancid, ball of shit that should be eliminated along with Islamism.

  But rest assured, there are those of us that recognize your passing is much more significant that the loss of any gangbanger.

• http://ninetymilesfromtyranny.blogspot.com/2014/08/gutfeld-on-liberalism.html

• Goes to the heart of a comment I posted on another thread, Democraps like to pretend they care and are upset, but a little black child gets gunned down in Chitcago? Not important enough for the race baiters and bullshit artists to get up off the couch.. I mentioned Holder calls us cowards for not talking about race..Okay lets talk about black on black murders and violence...But Holder is too much of a coward to address that. It does not fit his "activist" agenda....He is gutless just like President Semi-retired...Gutless and yellow.