Properly Subversive/Sherman R. Frederick
Secrecy is never good. No better example than the shooting in Kansas City at the end of the parade celebrating the Super Bowl victory for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Two 17-year-old kids were arrested and charged. They may be tried as adults, but for now they are charged as juveniles and, as is the custom in most states, their names and mug shots have not been released. Police reports giving the public details of the shooting are also kept secret.
This exacerbates a bad situation and leaves people in the dark on the fundamental facts around the case.
Consider the snit between Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas and Missouri Gov. Mike Parson.
Parson (who is white) called the shooters “thugs.” Quinton (who is black) called that characterization a racial “dog whistle.” That kind of rhetoric and response is the last thing we need.
Look, one person is dead. Eleven kids were injured. Several other adults are still in the hospital. This crime needs detail and public scrutiny. Sooner the better.’
(Sherman R. Fredrick is the owner of Battle Born Media, a longtime Nevada writer and journalist and a member of the Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame. You can reach the writer at shermfrederick@gmail.com.)
The reference of them being called thugs isn’t racial. All my life if they looked like thugs they were called thugs. It didn’t matter race. So Quintin Lucas needs to stand down and not act ignorant. That is the problem in all states. Everything that happens is said its racial. Its a joke. A woman was killed cz of these thugs. Cowardly thugs at that.