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Second Ward commenter says officials dismiss youth gun violence, cites prosecutor and law enforcement remarks
Summary
At a Flint City council meeting, a Second Ward resident said law enforcement and a federal prosecutor have downplayed youth gun violence and quoted two statements she said illustrate a failure to protect young people.
Adrienne Mohammed, a Second Ward resident, told the Flint City council during public comment that she has heard statements from law enforcement and a federal prosecutor that, in her view, show authorities are not adequately addressing youth gun violence.
Mohammed quoted two statements she said she had heard: that a law enforcement officer said, “F them kids. Let them kill each other,” and that a person from the federal prosecutor’s office said officials “know exactly who the youth are that are doing the shooting, and the only reason they have been prosecuted is because they are too young. It would have to go all the way to D.C., the White House, to get approval to indict a minor.”
Mohammed described the situation as a crisis that is setting children “up to go to prison, to the grave, us to kill one another,” and referenced a lecture and book by the minister Louis Farrakhan titled Justifiable Homicide, Black Youth in Peril as part of her context for the comments.
The transcript records these quotes as Mohammed’s account of what she has been told; it does not include confirmations from law enforcement or the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the provided excerpt. No formal action or directive to investigate those claims appears in the excerpt.
