I wrote about the death of Olivia Kurtz here, and haven't heard a thing since. Now Columbus has the FBI involved, and the CPD has managed to retrieve the video from the local security cameras around the site of the shooting, and the FBI is offering $25,000 to anyone who can help solve this crime.
From NBC news:
FBI offering $25,000 reward in shooting death of teen at Bicentennial Park
According to police, on May 22, Olivia Kurtz, 16, was shot during a private event that was promoted on social media at the amphitheater along the Scioto Mile. The shooting also left multiple other teens injured.
Police said the event did not have a permit from the city and that the park was closed at the time of the shooting.
From another news story here, we learn that multiple calls to 9-1-1 regarding excessive noise are ignored.
The rest of the news amounts to the same thing. The cops don't have a clue, which is not surprising and which I'm not finding any fault with. Sure, someone, someplace, saw something, but if that someone hasn't snatched up a phone and put in for the twenty-five large by now, it ain't happenin'. My hard spot with the whole business is this.
The park, Bicentennial Park, was closed. No events were scheduled, and the park hadn't been rented by anyone. Complaints about the noise and the antics of an increasing number of unsupervised youth were increasing, along with (I'll presume) the vitriol delivered along with the complaint.
The police said they couldn't do a damn' thing about it, and that just isn't true. Had the cops applied a healthy dose of good old fashioned police work starting at 6:00 PM, the shooting wouldn't have happened. Olivia Kurtz, who really was an honor student, would very likely still be alive.
I blame the top brass of the CPD, the incompetent mayor of Columbus, Ohio, and the fatheads that staff the Columbus City Council. While I'm at it, I'll blame the city manager as well, but mainly I blame the mayor and the CPD top brass. If you people, and I mean that in an offensive, derogatory fashion, had done your job the way it should be done, this wouldn't have happened. Now all you've got is a wish in one hand and hopes of a fraudulently stuffed ballot box in the other.
2 comments:
Of course the cops stayed away Jack. You saw what happened to the cop that arrested George Floyd: Derek Chauvin was convicted of Murder One AND manslaughter when Floyd deliberately swallowed enough fentanyl to kill four large men. Chauvin was convicted of suffocating the man when the coroner’s report blamed the death on an overdose. He was accused (and charged) of mishandling the prisoner even though the body cam footage clearly showed him treating Floyd with courtesy and patience. Don’t be surprised at all if Chauvin gets shivved in prison - or worse.
And you now want your cops to go into a park filled with hundreds of noggered delinquents? In this political climate? I don’t blame them one bit. And as for the dead boon… she can give my regards to Floyd in the afterlife.
Were I you, I’d try to move away from the vibrancy and diversity.
I wanted the CPD to stop the party around 6:00 PM, before it had a chance to get started. The way things worked out, people were selling tickets at the gate and a DJ had his sound equipment all set up and rolling out the racket. When the 9mm pellets hit the crowd, the DJ had time to pack up everything and vanish before the CPD started their show.
Mayor Ginther and his cronies are responsible for this one.
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