The 12-year old north St. Louis juvenile accused of murdering 13-year old Alexis Purtty last week will not be certified as an adult, and therefore will be charged in juvenile court.
Yesterday, State Rep. Jamilah Nasheed (D-St. Louis City) issued a press release, stating, among other things:
“If a 12-year-old boy can be spurred to this type of violence, there is something inherently wrong and out of order. Our community needs to come together and fix it.”
In other words, this boy didn’t do it on his own, he was “spurred” into doing so by some outside, evil external factor or demon.
Yet, in this same press release, Rep. Nasheed blames the St. Louis City Police for not doing what she thought they were supposed to do, though it should be said that if the SLPD actually did do those things, Nasheed and her ilk would be the biggest mouths opposing it and complaining about racial profiling.
Nevertheless, this is contradictory. On the one hand, she wants to blame some nameless faceless force that “spurred on” this boy to stab Miss Purtty to death. But on the other hand, the SLPD’s “inaction” or “incompetence” is entirely their own fault. She should apply her own logic in the former onto the latter: If the SLPD did do something wrong (and I don’t think they did), why not give them the benefit of the doubt, and pontificate about how they were “spurred on” to misbehave.
