At least 4 people shot in Mercer Park in Jersey City

But but but THE MEDIAAA MAKES SUCH A BIG DEAL ABOUT IT, what's such a big deal about those nine people?

 

This is a journalism board. If you don't know what the difference is between nine people, including a senator, being shot to death in a church while praying and a shooting out in public where a lesser number of people died, or did not die at all, and none of those people were a public figure, then you need to give back your journalism diploma because you did not earn it yet.

If you are here just to fuck up a board and drive people off by being obtuse and a dick, then, well, you are playing the clown like you always do.

 

Tell that to the guy who started this thread.

 

Unless you're a public figure, you ain't shit.

 

You're right, it is in Bayonne, but right on the border. JC police responded.

3 people shot in Mercer Park in Bayonne, police say | NJ.com

The border of JC/Bayonne has been shady for years. Close to the border in JC used to be the Curries Woods projects, which were torn down. In the late 80s that was one of the least friendly places in JC and NJ. Willie Banks, the No. 3 pick in 1987 (when Ken Girffey Jr was No. 1) grew up there and one of the first things he did after getting drafted by the Twins was buy his mom a house so she could move away from there.

 

Some editors? You don't read nj.com that often. Can't swear to it, but pretty sure when YF posted this the headline did say JC and also 4 shot. If you do take a look at nj.com you'll see the readers comments often serve as copy editors.

 

Is there any way we can blame this shooting on a flag?

 

I guess you are wondering why the local paper did not go A1 with the guy who committed suicide down the street or ran a big feature when the guy at the deli's son died from brain cancer.

 

The confusion here can't really be blamed on nj.com and the Jersey Journal, which usually is the case. It could have been even more of a question because there used to be a Hudson County police dept. Although maybe that would have made it easier because they would have been responsible..

 

People have been partying on basketball courts for as long as there have been basketball courts. It's how hip-hop got started!

Was thinking about a similar question to the one Batman mentions above when I heard about the shootings on the beach in Tunisia earlier in the week. They say this doesn't happen elsewhere, but it does. It's just that the killers are labeled differently (militants, terrorist, protestor). As for the thread itself, this in no way should be compared to Charleston. My guess would be that the killer and victim in this case knew each other in some fashion. My bet would be it is a neighborhood beef or gang-related. That is far different than a psycho racist going into a place of worship and gunning down 9 innocent people. I'm sure there were innocent folks killed in this instance, as well, and that is tragic, but it is still not the same.