It's a damn shame that some parents can't be thrown in jail alongside their feral offspring.Yeah, I realize that some parents don't deserve such a fate, because they do what they can and just can't overcome the odds. But on the other hand, something tells me this, as reported in the Omaha World-Herald, ain't one of those cases:
The 14-year-old boy accused of pointing a gun at a police officer has been charged as an adult, Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine said today.
Marcel Davis, who turns 15 next month, was charged today with attempted first-degree assault on an officer, use of a firearm to commit a felony and possession of a stolen firearm, Kleine said.
Davis was shot in the leg by Officer Nicholas Andrews early Tuesday near 48th and Boyd Streets. Davis had fled from a Chrysler Cirrus that Andrews and Officer Alan Peatrowsky stopped after they spotted the car driving without headlights on and with an expired license plate.
During the foot chase, police said, Davis turned and pointed a gun at Andrews and Andrews fired at him, hitting him once in the leg. Davis was treated at Creighton University Medical Center and was released. He then was booked into the Douglas County Youth Center.
Alethea Goynes, 31, Davis' mother, said her son gave her a different account: He tossed the gun as he got out of the car and didn't point it at anyone.
Goynes said police told her they found the gun in some nearby bushes. She said she thinks Davis ran away because he was scared.
"If he admitted to having a gun, then why wouldn't he admit to pointing it at the police," Goynes said. "I believe my son. I think there's more to it."
Andrews has been placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of an investigation.
Police say Davis admitted to possessing the gun. A check of the gun's serial number found that it was reported stolen June 2.
Kleine said Davis is fortunate that he sustained only a leg wound in the incident.
"Obviously, the circumstances are such that with his use of a firearm in the manner that he did, he's fortunate that he's still alive."
Kleine said he considered Davis' age when deciding whether to file charges in district court. "But, again, the juvenile court can only maintain jurisdiction until they're 18." District court, he said, offers much the same services, but can maintain oversight over someone into adulthood.
"Threatening a police officer with that firearm, I believe it should be in an adult court," Kleine said.
Davis is a ninth-grader at North High School. He has been in the Omaha Public Schools since the second grade, an OPS spokeswoman said.
Naw, Baby didn't do nothin'. What the hell was Baby doing out of the house anyway -- much less out on the streets long after a 14-year-old ought to have been in bed?
I suspect this will be easy enough to sort out. If Baby got shot in the back of the leg, bad news for the cop.
If Baby was shot in the front of the leg, chances are he wheeled on the cop, gun in hand, and it really, really sucks to be him.
BUT HAVING BEEN BORN to a 16-year-old mother of a different last name, one who let him run the streets a week after he already had gotten pinched by The Man -- a mother who will instantly take the word of her feral baby boy despite the fact that he was running from the cops and packing heat. . . .
Well, I guess it has sucked to be Baby for a long, long time.
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