Parental supervision and guidance
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Something every parent should read. If it's too long - and I think it is - just read the bolded part.
“This is the final days of Patti's first pregnancy, and I receive a surprise visit from my father at my home in LA. Now, he'd driven 500 miles unannounced to knock on my door, that's his style. So at 11 a.m. we sit Sunday dining room, and we're nursing morning beers, that's his style.
When, my dad, never a talkative man, right, blurted out, "You've been very good to us". And I nodded that, that I had, and he says, "And I wasn't very good to you". And, the room just…stood still. As to my shock, the unacknowledgeable was being acknowledged, if I, if I didn't know better I would've sworn an apology of some sort was being made, and it was.
Here in the last days before I was to become a father, my own father was visiting me to warn me of the mistakes that he had made, and to warn me not to make them with my own children. To release them from the chain of our sins, my fathers of mine and our fathers before, that they may be free, to make their own choices and to live their own lives.
We are ghosts or we are ancestors in our children's lives. We either lay our mistakes, our burdens upon them, and we haunt them, or we assist them in laying those old burdens down, and we free them from the chain of our own flawed behavior. And as ancestors, we walk alongside of them, and we assist them in finding their own way, and some transcendence.
My father, on that day, was petitioning me, for an ancestral role in my life after being a ghost for a long long time. He wanted me to write a new end to our relationship, and he wanted me to be ready for the new beginning that I was about to experience.
It was the greatest moment in my life with my dad, and it was all that I needed.” - Bruce Springsteen -
A Chicago woman who was arrested for murder after allegedly ordering her 14-year-old son to shoot a man dead in a fast-food eatery was freed Monday after prosecutors dropped the charges against her and the teen.
Carlishia Hood, 35, and her son had both been charged with first-degree murder last week for the June 18 shooting death of Jeremy Brown, 32, at the hot dog joint Maxwell Street Express, CBS Chicago reported.
Hood and Brown had gotten into an argument while waiting for food and the mother allegedly texted her son, who was waiting in the car, to come help her.
The young teen has been accused of gunning down the man with his mother’s firearm at her order.
However, new evidence came to light over the weekend that made the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office reconsider the charges.
A previously unreleased video of Brown brutally pummeling Hood in the head inside the restaurant began circulating on social media.
“Based upon our continued review and in light of emerging evidence, today the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office has moved to dismiss the charges against Carlisha Hood and her 14-year-old son,” the office said in a statement Monday. “Based upon the facts, evidence, and the law we are unable to meet our burden of proof in the prosecution of these cases.”
Both Hood, who was being held on $3 million bond, and her son, who was being held without bail in a juvenile detention center, were released Monday after the charges were dropped.
From the RWEC:
We should first note that Jeremy Brown was not a blameless innocent bystander in all of this. He reportedly engaged fully in the argument. A video captured by a customer shows him repeatedly punching Ms. Hood in the head. So in that regard, she was entitled to act in self-defense. That’s the claim that prosecutors are making in justifying the release of both mother and son.
But the subsequent actions by both of them leave self-defense claims in the dust. It is perhaps excusable that the son shot Brown after entering the eatery and seeing him beating on his mother. But at that point, Brown fled the building. All Ms. Hood need to do next was call the police. Brown would obviously have shown up at a hospital sooner or later and they could have taken him into custody if appropriate.
Instead, Carlishia Hood “ordered” her son to pursue Brown outside and keep shooting. He complied. To make matters worse, the mother then ordered her son to shoot another woman who had been inside and had reportedly been laughing at the spectacle of Hood and Brown fighting. Fortunately, the boy did not carry out the second order to shoot. They both then got in her car and left.
The scene inside the restaurant was self-defense. The scene outside was cold-blooded murder.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/carlishia-hood-lawsuit-wrongful-arrest-murder-jeremy-brown/
A woman is suing the city of Chicago and several police officers, after she and her teenage son were arrested in a deadly shooting, only to have the murder charges dropped days later.
Carlishia Hood, 35, and her 14-year-old son had been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of 32-year-old Jeremy Brown on June 18 at the Maxwell Street Express located in the 11600 block of South Halsted Street. Hood, who was a valid FOID card and concealed carry license holder at the time of the incident, was also charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
All charges against both Hood and her son were dropped on Monday, and they were released from custody.
On Tuesday, Hood filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court against the city of Chicago and the officers who arrested her, accusing them of malicious prosecution, false arrest, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
"My life changed. My son's life changed. I've experienced pain in many ways that I would never have thought," Hood said of their arrest. "What happened to me was totally unnecessary. Never in a million years would I have imagined being brutally attacked, beaten, and being arrested."
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Two things:
1). Her name is hood. Heh
2). Chasing him down the street to put a few more rounds in his back ain’t self defense
@Jon said in Parental supervision and guidance:
Two things:
1). Her name is hood. Heh
2). Chasing him down the street to put a few more rounds in his back ain’t self defense
Those were my thoughts as well, both points LOL. BTW I saw the original video on reddit a few days ago (of Brown and Hood fighting, not the son) and it was certainly within reason for the son to defend the mom after Brown attacked her inside the restaurant. How strange the woman seems to be a good person (church, volunteer, etc) but her "hood rat" personality came out when she started telling her son to finish killing Brown and kill the lady laughing.
That being said, these two people are perfect examples of what happens if you carry a gun and are an idiot... you first think to use the gun instead of thinking of other ways to deconflict. Heck, even the son probably could've taken on the man in a fight, but instead they thought "hey we have a gun, let's use it!'
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Once you followed the man into the street, it's no longer self-defense. Period.
