The grieving parents of a 7-year-old child who died hours after being hit by a car were charged with involuntary manslaughter after allowing him and his brother, 10, to walk home unaccompanied by an adult from a nearby grocery store.
The 76-year-old driver will not face any charges.
The Food Lion store is two blocks away from their home. The parents said the children were with their mother when they asked to meet their father at the store, and she allowed them to leave
Gastonia police declined to comment to NBC News, but said in a statement that “there is no evidence of speeding or wrongdoing on the part of the driver, therefore no charges have been filed. The driver continues to be cooperative and the incident remains under active investigation by the Gastonia Police Department’s Traffic Division.”
Ivey, the mother, told WSOC before her arrest that it was the first time had she let the children walk alone. “It was just devastating, I’m still in shock, I’m in shock,” she said. “It’s hard, I haven’t stopped crying; my husband hasn’t stopped crying. Honestly, I want justice for my baby.”
I think the only way I can interpret this is for parents to begin a firebombing campaign against all unoccupied motor vehicles found in their area. Parents need to, according to this pig, ensure a safe environment for their children. That could only mean the utter destruction of every high velocity metal weapon on wheels within their immediate area, what else could it mean? Two blocks from any home would, I think, constitute their immediate environment. Spike strips on main roads. Sugar in gas tanks. Pierced tires in parking lots. The destruction will end when they have created a safe environment for their children. Anyone objecting to this action by extension would be a tangential threat to their child’s safety, and should be moved from the environment into another environment where there are no children.
That’d be fun, wouldn’t it? But we all know what this truly is intended as is a rallying call to keep them chained to an iPad inside.
I mean, the obvious motivation here is racism, as other commenters have pointed out.
Oh definitely but I do think there is a separate ideological move at play as I believe I have seen similar things used to disparage white folk as well. I have interacted with a lot of people who genuinely believe not monitoring your kids for most of the day is reckless behavior and some people even have reported the cops have been called on them for letting their kids play on their own lawn unmonitored. (Which if that is a crime my family needs to be sent to the prison camps).
Heck, I grew up in the 2000s and was not allowed to go more than 2-3 houses away excluding the occasional B-line to a specific friend’s house who lived just outside that radius until I was about 10 or so. I had assumed it was a one-off thing at the time and my family quickly relented randomly after I hit double digits (I swear some people just place arbitrary markers for what is allowed) but saw it apply to more and more kids as I was a teen and several members of the cohort just behind me had similar if not stricter rules than I did.
I don’t think it is just racism as play, there is a very push towards the idea being outside is extremely unsafe which has been happening for quite some time.
Everybody is expected to be a “cop” and police everybody else’s behavior at all times.
Parents have the right to defend
themselvestheir children.“All Cops Are Bastards” gang
“All Cars Are Burning” gang
All unoccupied motor vehicles in the vicinity? That hardly solves the problem. Those things can travel through that “immediate area” range in one minute.
I take care of my area and you take care of yours and so on down the line, then by god there won’t be a car left.