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“Dayshon Smith, a 28-year-old local boxer nicknamed
‘Superfreak’ for his power and reach in the ring, was shot and killed amid
gunfire in the Hill Saturday after a large party on Rosette Street turned
deadly, leaving five others hospitalized.”
Brian Clark, who runs the Ring One boxing
gym on Congress Avenue, turned out for the rain-soaked press conference following
the shooting to speak up on behalf of his former boxing student.
“Smith had a job working with disadvantaged youth, Clark
said, and no criminal record. He said Smith had a daughter whom he adored and
spent much time with.
“’He worked. Had a real job. A real legit job,’ Clark said.
‘He was a good father. He was doing the right things.’”
“And, Clark said, Smith was a tremendous boxer.”
An email released by New Haven police ticks off the victims of
the shootout. While Smith died, five other victims survived. They included “a
27-year-old woman who was shot multiple times in the side of her torso, a
28-year-old woman who was shot in the arm and leg, a 31-year-old man who was
shot in the face, a 37-year-old man who was shot twice in the leg, and a
37-year-old man who was shot in the thigh.”
It’s a safe bet the shooters were not members of the
Connecticut Citizens Defense League, nor was the purchase of the weaponry they
used effectively blocked by legislation produced by Senators Dick Blumenthal
and Chris Murphy following the mass murder of school children in Sandy Hook,
Connecticut.
Following the New Haven shooting, New Haven police Chief Otoniel
Reyes noted that his department – not yet defunded as demanded by earlier Black
Lives Matter protestors – had removed 30 guns from the streets in the last few
weeks, “staggering numbers for a city of our size.” Blumenthal participated in
those protests; he was careful to wear a mask.
One factor in the shooting, Reyes said, is that people
recently released from prison get into violent disputes when they find
themselves back in the community. Two of
the gunshot victims from the Saturday night’s shooting were recently released
from prison. One is on probation, and one is on parole.
“These people’s criminal histories,” Reyes told the paper, “may
be related to the shooting that ultimately took place.”
In the bran-spanking new 21st century, the “good black”, Smith and many other people gathered at the event to remember the victim of an earlier shooting, is Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.” US Senator from New York Daniel Patrick Moynihan may have been the first politician of note to have raised the underreported problem of the disappearance of black fathers, yet another group of blacks whose lives just don’t matter to the quasi-Marxist administrative apparat of Black Lives Matter.
So then, what to do about all this? Apparently, the shooters
were not at all dissuaded by Mayor Justin Elicker’s order to remove a Christopher
Columbus statue that had offended the sensibilities of protesters who had urged
the mayor to put Columbus in mothballs. The war on Columbus – if not criminals
who prey on the black communities – will not be over until Columbus had been disappeared,
an effort underway now in Mayor Luke Bronin’s Hartford.
The Blumenthal-Murphy ban on so called “assault weapons” –
actually, any instrument used in the commission of an assault is an assault
weapon – did not add a single year to Smith’s promising life as a boxer. These artificial
attempts to prevent the tide coming in by whipping the waves produce a sound
and fury in the media that advances the careers of politicians, but they do
little to fight crime. Police fight crime, and it seems absurd to attempt to
lessen crime in the crime infested Hill section of New Haven through police
defunding protests.
Can we at least put that absurd notion to bed? One does not
stop arson in its tracks by defunding fire departments. One does not bring a
pandemic to an end by shutting down doctors offices. One does not stop the
illegal procurement of guns in the Hill section of New Haven by imposing
burdensome – and possibly unconstitutional – regulations on lawful gun owners;
a Superior Court in California, of all places, recently found unconstitutional a
law restricting magazines to ten bullets. If there were a statue to the Constitution in New
Haven, intersectional Marxists and anarchists in the latest movement to repeal
western civilization would be pleading with Elicker and Bronin to cart it off
to a museum bone yard.
The best way to discover a solution to a problem is to
reject out of hand all false solutions.
It is outrageous that a man like Smith could be mowed down
in any civilized city in America. Unfortunately, our political empathizers will
forget him soon. Those who genuinely mourn his passing may perhaps be consoled
by Blaise Pascal, who said “In the end, they throw a little dirt on you, and
everyone walks away. But there is One who will not walk away.” The real black
community will understand who that One is.
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