While leftist radicals led by Black Lives Matter agitators demand the City of San Antonio defund the SA Police Department, the carnage and violence in the streets worsen. The following is a list of the crimes reported by the local news media between Friday, Aug. 22, at 10:30 pm through Sunday, Aug. 23 at 4 am. It is not a complete list because the local news does not report some incidents of beatings and robberies.
On Friday, at 10:30 pm, an 18-year-old boy was taken to a nearby hospital after getting shot in the left while walking home from an east-side corner store with friends. The incident happened near Rosemont at Highland Park Apartments in the 1300 block of Rigsby Avenue.
On Friday at midnight, a couple survived a road rage incident near the SAPD Southeast Substation in the 3600 block of E. Houston St. According to SAPD, the couple was driving down Gibbs Street when an unidentified suspect fired multiple shots at the victim’s car.
At 6 am on Saturday, SAPD was called to a shooting on the east side on the 600 block of Ferris Avenue. A man with a gunshot wound was found in the front yard of a home.
On Saturday, around 4 pm, SAPD received a call about a suspicious Jeep on the Southside. When officers made contact, the driver fled from the scene and crashed into a home located in the 3400 block of Commercial Avenue. The suspect accidentally discharged a weapon while exiting his vehicle. (Proper SAPD training avoided the suspect being shot.)
At midnight on Sunday, a man was stabbed in the leg at the intersection of McCullough Avenue and East Evergreen Street north of downtown.
Finally, on Sunday, around 5 am, a man was shot and killed at a house party in the 18700 block of Real Ridge Drive near Crownridge Canyon Park in northwest SA.
Liberals and leftists refuse to admit it, but the police are not the problem. The culture, the upbringing of some people, is the problem.
Liberals avoid blaming individuals for their behavior because they don’t want to place responsibility on “the downtrodden.” Leftists accuse the “system” because they want a revolution and power, and both blame the law enforcement and the justice system.
However, unless people accept responsibility for their action and all crime is punished, the violence will continue. Furthermore, BLM and other liberal/leftist groups should address the violence and crime among the people they pretend to help.
We must stop excusing and justifying bad behavior, and we must stop blaming the police.