I hadn’t expected this, though I suppose that I should have.
We have previously noted the murder of 73-year-old James “Simmie” Lambert by a group of Philadelphia teens and even younger brats. What I didn’t mention on this site was that the 13-year-old girl who was questioned but not arrested was herself shot in a not very nice neighborhood, the 5800 block of Osceola Street.
Well, it seems like the ‘hood doesn’t like that some of the kids who beat Mr Lambert to death have been criminally charged:
Family of 73-year-old man fatally beaten with traffic cone says they’re being harassed, judge issues stay away order
On three occasions in the last two weeks, a group of kids has gathered outside the home of the 84-year-old sister of James Lambert Jr.
by Ellie Rushing | Wednesday, July 27, 2022
The family of the 73-year-old man who was fatally beaten by teens with a traffic cone last month said they have been harassed and taunted by kids showing up outside their house in recent weeks.
On three occasions in the last two weeks, a group of kids has gathered outside the home of the 84-year-old sister of James Lambert Jr., who died last month after two teens hit him multiple times with a traffic cone.
Tania Stephens, Lambert’s niece, said the kids stood outside her mother’s Strawberry Mansion house, pointing and laughing, making the family feel intimidated and harassed.
In response, Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Joffie C. Pittman III on Tuesday approved a stay-away order requested by the District Attorney’s Office, ordering all defendants, their families, and any third parties related to them to stand down or face arrest.
Yeah, that’s going to make a difference!
According to Lonny Fish, the lawyer representing Gamara Mosley, one of the two 14-year-olds charged with third-degree murder in the case, some of the girls photographed outside the home are believed to be sisters of a 13-year-old girl who was present during the incident, but was not charged with any crimes. It is their understanding, Fish said, that the kids had been on their way to the pool nearby and stopped by the house spontaneously.
Would that be the same 13-year-old girl who was shot on Osceola Street? Osceola Street is about four miles from the Strawberry Mansion section of Philly, and a bit more than five miles from Cecil B Moore and 21st Street, where Mr Lambert was murdered.
Makes me wonder: were any of these girls on the way to the pool the same girls whose violence and vandalism caused the city to close the pool at McVeigh Recreation Center for the summer? Granted, it’s about 3 miles from McVeigh to Strawberry Mansion, but certainly not a distance that healthy teenaged girls couldn’t walk.
The girls were friends of Mosley’s up until her arrest, he said, but Mosley’s family has nothing to do with the visits to Lambert’s relatives’ home, which he called “indefensible” and wrong.
“My client is 14, and she’s incarcerated right now,” Fish said. “Whatever it is, it’s not at the behest of any of the people supervising my client.”
It may well be that young Miss Mosley and her family had nothing to do with the harassment of the Lambert family, because they’d certainly be stupid to do anything like this and jeopardize the inevitable request by her mouthpiece to transfer the charges to the juvenile justice system. Then again, there’s not a lot of evidence that there’s much intelligence in a family that let Miss Mosley out playing in the streets at 2:30 in the morning.
Some of my Philly friends are just shaking their heads at the violence happening in the City of Brotherly Love, but the story from The Philadelphia Inquirer really tells you all that you need to know: too many people are on the side of the criminals and juvenile delinquents! That’s how District Attorney Larry Krasner, who’d rather keep the bad guys on the streets than behind bars, got elected and then re-elected, and that’s how he’ll get re-elected again in 2025 if he chooses to run again.
Philly has more than just bad adults; the city has horrible mothers and fathers — if the fathers are even around — rearing children who are delinquents because they want to be delinquents, because they think it’s just so cool to be gangsters and wannabes. No government programs will ever help when the kids are subjected to rotten parents from the beginning.
I have told everybody what is needed to solve the city’s problems, but it’s just way, way, way too politically incorrect for anyone to consider.