12-year-old in wheelchair robbed of charity money for disabled b-ball game

[sushilover]

Seated in his wheelchair, Nolan Turner, 12, staked out his neighborhood Thursday evening to sell water bottles and raise money to bring his wheelchair basketball team to his elementary school.

He had already collected more than $250 – kept in a bucket – of the $1,000 needed to bring the experience of playing wheelchair basketball to his schoolmates.

Police are still searching for the man who took the money. He is described as black male with a tattoo on the back of his left arm. He is between 5 feet 6 inches and 5 feet 8 inches tall, in his 20s, and has very short hair or is bald, Williams said.

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[sushilover]

I wonder of the Southern Poverty Law Center or talkingpointsmemo.com will address this vicious hate crime?

[SalisburySage]

Get serious. They will probably blame Nolan. Everytime something like this happens it gives credence to the fear and loathing people have towards young black males and is partly to blame for the disproportionate number of young.d black males in Prison.

If the black community was smart they be out marching in the streets demanding this man be hunted down. Posse's of young black men should be formed to let the community know that this behavior will not be tolerated especially because it reinforces the stereotype, that young black men are vicious predators to be feared.

No doubt we won't see Al Sharpton organize a march.

[sushilover]

If only little Nolan had been wearing a hoodie ...

[Balt Observer]

No doubt that the perpetrator was a good kid, and was trying to turn his life around.

[sushilover]

Still no "outrage" from the Southern Poverty Law Center or talkingpointsmemo.com about this vicious hate crime. I wonder why?