I can't stand foolishness and the one thing I will not tolerate is gang activity in my community. Now I'm mad and I'm going to pray because...
Monday, six boys armed with guns burst into the mobile home of a Sawdust resident, terrorizing her and her two young children. They demanded money, but all she had was $7. The boys were arrested later that night and taken to a juvenile facility in Tallahassee. They told law enforcement they're part of a gang called the Sawdust Connection Boys.
"This was a gang that we had absolutely no idea that existed," said Lt. Jim Corder of the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office.
Sawdust, a community 7 miles southwest of Quincy, has been torn by gang violence. Investigators said the seven indicted men are part of a gang called 773 and responsible for three homicides. The Sheriff's Office launched a probe into the suspected gang three years ago after it began to take a closer look at cold-case murders.
But apparently, some people aren't buying it...
The Rev. John Battles of St. Peter Apostolic Church said he doesn't think the Sawdust Connection Boys is a real gang. "They're just hard-headed, stubborn children who don't want to be obedient to their parents," Battles said.
Battles said the root of the gang problem lies with parents who are afraid to spank their children. Some kids threaten to call the Department of Children and Families if their parents try to discipline them, he said.
He sounds like an idiot. While I agree that parental control, or the lack thereof, is a problem, when parenting does not work, the penal system will. Put their butts in jail and make them do hard time. I have no sympathy for thugs who terrorize women, young children, or even law abiding men for that matter. On this issue, I am a Republican.
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