One More Dead Teenager

We've got another one on the dark side of the lawn in Columbus, Ohio.  I'm using this shooting as an example of what happens in the city of Columbus, Ohio's State capital.

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Teen girl dead, five others wounded in mass shooting at Downtown Columbus Bicentennial Park

From the article in the Dispatch:

16-year-old Olivia Kurtz is dead, five other young people were wounded and two others injured in a mass shooting late Saturday [5/22/2021 - MJ] night at a DJ music party promoted on social media at the amphitheater in Bicentennial Park in Downtown Columbus.

The event was after park hours, there was no permit issued and not authorized or sanctioned by the city Recreation and Parks Department, Becker said. 

So one way or another, the organizer (who is very carefully not named) posted on a half-dozen or so social media sites like FB and Twitter that there was going to be a hellacious party at Bicentennial Park, proceeds from a mandatory $5 per person donation at the doors to be used for drug research.  Cash beer bar and recreational substances.

My first question is what made the organizers think they could get away with this?  I'm betting this isn't the first rave they've organized.

The organizers "threw something together, potentially even charging admission to get in and concessions and a DJ is what we're being told," he [police] said. "Upon our arrival, all of those people had fled with their equipment. They very quickly loaded up and took off."

That is some heavy-duty, industrial grade loading and gettin' gone.  Even in my bad old days, I don't think anyone could have arranged anything like that.  Although no one got a nose count, the feel I'm getting is that over 100 party participants were involved.

Then around midnight...

Police and Columbus Fire medics were called at 11:51 p.m. Saturday to a reported shooting at the park along Scioto Mile and found a chaotic scene with several people wounded.

Witnesses gave differing accounts of where the shooting erupted and whether people in the crowd returned fire, and investigators don't know how many shooters there were, Becker said.

Meaning that in this crowd people were packing heat, and if you're packing your gat and some genius opens fire, you're going to, what?

A) Wait for police to arrive so you can turn yourself in for carrying a loaded firearm without a permit and while under the influence of your favorite mind altering cocktail.

B) Give your gat to a retarded party animal and ask him to hold it for you for a minute, then run like hell away.

C) Take cover and return fire, then run like hell away.

Me, I wouldn't be there in the first place.

Moving right along, in a truly insightful, monumentally brilliant, and unrequested commentary, Columbus schools superintendent Talisa Dixon stated that, 'What is happening in our community has to stop.'  If you live in Columbus, your property taxes are paying this dumb fucking cunt's salary - $242,000 per year.

Destroying some credibility with the moonbat set, the Columbus Dispatch actually printed a few facts on just how this entire fracas got started.  It seems that one local resident got fed up with the noise.  From The Dispatch:

Rick Richards, who lives in the Miranova condominiums across West Main Street facing Bicentennial Park, said he and his wife started hearing music playing at the amphitheater around 9:30 p.m.

"The music was getting louder and louder," Richards said, and by about 10 p.m. he and his wife and some neighbors began calling the Columbus police nonemergency line about the noise.

Because in Columbus, 9-1-1 is only for emergencies.  Noise is not an emergency.

Richards said he and/or his wife called the police nonemergency number again about 10:30 p.m. and again a little after 11 p.m.

"No one's coming," Richards said of police. "The response early on is there's a shift change and it's not a priority call," he said, but the dispatcher did say they were putting it on the call list.

Oh yeah, this will solve everything.  We are now on the call list.  Wah-fucking-hoo.

Unable to sleep because of the vibrating bass from the music, Richard said he went onto his condo balcony and looked over at the large crowd of people at the park. He said he was on the balcony for only a few minutes and considering calling the police again when gunfire broke out.

Which did more to break up the party than the police would ever do.

The doughnut munchers screwed the pooch on this one.  They couldn't have fucked things up any better than if they'd passed out free ammo along with free beer and party favors.

The news media, god bless their black little hearts, emphasized Olivia Kurtz.  She was on the honor roll at school, which is something.  The names of the five wounded aren't being released, not that it matters much.  The cops only counted two that were hurt during the mass exodus, both due to the shooting and the eventual arrival of the police.

My first thought is where are the parents in all this?  Then I think about some of the stunts I pulled at 16, and just shrug it off.  By the time you're 16, you're making your own decisions and all your parents can really do is hope and pray that you aren't as bad as some.  Me, I was better than some and worse than others, and I had extenuating circumstances.  Olivia should have known better than to attend an event like this.

My first thought is gang activity.  No one will talk or admit to seeing anything.  Discounting personal jealousy and envy, both of which can be very powerful motivators, I'm wondering about the noise.  Rick Richards isn't the only resident who called the non-emergency number; others called and were given the same treatment.  I'm just kind of wondering in the back of my mind if someone, somewhere, didn't get fucking fed up with the police who refused to help.  Loud music resplendent with a pounding sub-woofer bass that would rattle the windows.  Teenagers screaming fuck you! at anyone who dared to complain.  The neighborhood park that they were destroying.  So, taking a decent vantage point, our citizen torches off a few rounds.

Olivia Kurtz is dead.  Her family grieves.  But at least it's quiet.

The real solution starts with the kids, who should know better than to be at a party like that.  The parents, who should have explained (several times, because one explanation doesn't stick) the dangers involved in attending.  You could end up sick as a dog the next day, pregnant, raped, beaten, arrested, and charged as an adult.  You might end up on a slab.  Although, since we were all invulnerable as teenagers, that argument doesn't hold much water.

My real gripe here is with the Columbus Police Department.  The CPD has noise ordinances that they can enforce, and don't.  They could have broken up that festival before it got started.  The CPD doesn't enforce traffic law, laws against graffiti and littering are never mentioned.  This particular event was illegal before it started, and the cops did nothing.

I'm not anti-police, but this lack of law enforcement by the CPD is making my neighborhood worse instead of better, and I'm getting sick and tired of the noise, the broken windows, and the graffiti.