The Miami-Dade Police Department arrested four people Friday in connection with the shooting death of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor.
Police spokeswoman Linda O’Brien identified the men as: Venjah K. Hunte, 20; Eric Rivera Jr., 17; Jason Scott Mitchell, 17; and Charles Kendrick Lee Wardlow, 18. O’Brien said the charges for each had not yet been determined.
Taylor died Tuesday, one day after being shot at his home in an affluent Miami suburb during what officials said appeared to be an attempted burglary. The suspects weren’t expecting Taylor to be home, police director Robert Parker said, but Taylor was recuperating from a knee injury and had returned to Miami from Washington.
RODNEY KING SHOT
Rodney King at an event back in ’02 (Gettyimages)
Now, I’m sure everyone remembers Rodney King and his infamous “Can’t we all just get along” line, but who would have thought he would be in the news again. Read on:
Rodney King, famous for a videotaped beating from Los Angeles police back in 1991, was shot and wounded on a San Bernardino street corner late Wednesday. King called Rialto police just before midnight to report the shooting. According to Sgt. Don Lewis, King was struck in the face and arm by a shotgun. When police arrived at King’s home, they reported that King and others inside appeared drunk. King was taken to a local hospital, and his wounds were not believed to be life-threatening. [SOURCE]
Look @ these young ass punks!!! They asses ain’t even LIVED life yet and they already dumb as shit and going nowhere fast…. It’s a shame.. RIP to Sean Taylor. What the hell were they thinkin’??
dueces
And whose the idiot that took up UNNECESSARY space writing all that racist ish??? Angela, Brian, somebody erase that cuz they obviously think this is some tacky ass site like MEDIATAKEOUT!!!
So on the Sean Taylor case, it seems all too suspect to me. He gets robbed in his home which has a gate and alarm system which is conveniently off. Telephone lines are cut on the outside of the house. He gets shot in the leg and dies a day later.
I hate to play devils advocate but I have had the pleasure of meeting Sean a time or two seeing how my brother is in the NFL…GO TEXANS! Great guy! I can’t see why anyone would want to hurt him, but women have done stranger things because they have felt less than secure in their relationship.
I know that every ball player has at least 4 cellphones…iPhone, sidekick, Sprint, Blackberry. His girlfriend or wife has at least a cellphone or two…. if the phone lines were cut could you have at least grabbed a cellphone? It was said that he bled for sometime before the paramedics were called…why? I know we watch many crime shows on TV, but, these young thugs put together a perfect crime almost and must have been staking the place out for a while to know when he was gonna be there, know someone didn’t turn the alarm system on and scour over an iron gate which happens to be too tall to climb without a pole for pole vaulting. Sounds like someone wanted to scare him a bit, but didn’t know that a shot in the “LEG” would turn fatal.
GO FIGURE!
And why is it so racist to think the wife was in on it? Black or white the spouse is always a pretty good guess. It really doesnt matter if she came from money either. Watch “Snapped” once in a while. Some of those women killed their husbands just because they hated them.
This entire story makes no sense. All the breakins,threats,his friend saying he was always scared,the knife on the bed. These 4 challenged looking men do not provide answers to all those questions.
Dayum youngstas! Some of them have nothing better to do with their time besides being envy and jealous of someone who got theirs. Get yo low life a$$ off your moma couch and get yours your dayum self instead of taking other people hard earned $hit.
GET THEM FUCKERS! GET THEM FUCKERS! GET THEM FUCKERS!
They were unattractive to start, so they were lost had nothing to lose coming out of the gate. Dumb asses.
Why is it unpremeditated murder? Didnt those losers KNOW him before they killed (shot) him? To Everyone that is jumping on the Race of his girlfriend as a factor in this case is confirming the Black stereotype “let’s blame this on the White man”…. Get over it already. This is a multicultural nation. If you dont agree with interracial relationships dont have one!!!!!
Four suspects,and possibly a fifth,all the way from the opposite side of the state(Fort Myers) to do this.His half sister was said to be involved with one of the suspects uncle.It’s all crazy.In the end,it’s another black male dead OVER NOTHING.
The little girl has no father now! Just like most of the children where Im from, their fathers are dead or in jail. Just another statisti that could have been prevented. Oh well life does go on! Niccas die everyday. You would think that we would learn from this and grow but yet the cycle continues……It’s a cold world out here people, and we should a get right with the Lord asap!!
David Aldridge | Time to stop all the dying
By David Aldridge
Inquirer Columnist
If you want to debate which quarterback is best for the Eagles, please, go read somebody else. This morning, I don’t give a damn. My concern today is not whether Donovan starts Sunday but whether Dontae down the block is going to be alive in a year.
Black men, I need your attention. This means you, Jimmy Rollins. Mr. Cosby, give me a minute. I’m talking both to Beasley Reece and the guy who drives the downtown
bus.
Will Smith and the electrician fixing the wiring at City Hall. The pastor at the Baptist church. The waiter at the Capital Grille. The pilot behind the stick of the USAirways flight this morning. The teacher in West Philly.
The barber in the first chair. Mayor-elect Nutter. The 14-year-old who thinks no one believes in him. The painter. The convict. The gay guy.
The sergeant just back from Iraq. The lieutenant who is going next week.
All of you. Listen up.
I’m tired of seeing young black men go into the ground.
Tired of seeing lives ruined by guns, and by drugs, and by bad choices,
and by people like me who sit idly by while it happens, because it isn’t happening to us.
Rich men, poor men, athletes, beggars, journalists, L.A., D.C., Detroit, Chicago, it doesn’t matter. We are dying. i’ve just spent two days with the Redskins, who are trying to deal with the fact that one of their best players and team leaders, a young,
complicated black man named Sean Taylor, is dead at 24, because someone
broke into his home at 1:30 in the morning Monday and murdered him.
There are those, including colleagues I respect, who say they’re not surprised, and infer that Taylor had it coming, because he had had a beef with some bad people two years ago that led to brandished guns andcars shot full of holes. And, thus, it was inevitable that he had todie, like life is a Shakespearean play or something. A Montague is dead; a Capulet must follow. It’s in the script.
No, no, no. That is wrong.
As black men, we cannot allow ourselves to be defined by anyone – by the
media or by ourselves – and accept the premise that one beginning means
only one possible ending. Sean Taylor, while no saint, was not a “thug.” He didn’t grow up in the ‘hood. He went to private schools before college. And even if he was a
thug – whatever that is – or embraced that culture during one part of his life, that doesn’t mean he deserved to die in front of his child and fiancée, in his home, bothering no one.
I’m angry that people cry about Sean Taylor’s death because he was an outstanding football player, as if his death has extra meaning because he had great closing speed. This is not about sports.
We have buried 200 Sean Taylors in this city this year. We don’t knowwhat would have come of their dreams and hopes. They deserve our tears,too, for they may have been anonymous to you, but they weren’t to their mothers and fathers, their best friends and lovers, their teachers and mentors.
I’m angry that, as of 2004, according to the Centers for Disease Control, homicide is the No. 1 cause of death among black men ages of 15to 34. I’m angry that the Justice Policy Institute found more black men in prison than in college.
I’m angry that young brothers who like school and want to learn are accused of “acting white,” and have to make the awful choice of sticking with their education or sticking with their boys.
It happened to me when I was 5. I’ve never gotten over it. How does one mend a heart brok en by those who look most like him? I’m tired of nodding in agreement as I did yesterday when Brian Westbrook talked about how he has to be extra careful these days, because he knows that, all-pro or not, he’s a target when he steps off
the field, and his celebrity provides no shield. “I feel as though everybody’s vulnerable, to a certain extent,” he said.
“You have to watch the company that you keep. You have to watch the situations that you put yourself in. . . . You can’t put yourself in a situation where your friends are doing dirt or bad things, and then youhang around those people. ‘Cause at some point, karma catches up with you.”
We can continue to throw our hands up and blame others or we can stop this genocide and deal with the recriminations later.
In an otherwise demagogic campaign advertisement in 1964, Lyndon Johnson
said, “These are the stakes. To make a world in which all of God’s children can live or to go into the dark. We must either love each other or we must die.”
What’s it gonna be?
this just tnb and i am happy that a usless piece of trash like rodney king got shot which is more tnb.