3 dead, 2 injured in series of shootings

[AquaMan]

Turley is their enemy not the ugly library. Turley is to library as library is to the blind.

[jacobi]

You mean they are now "under attack" at the library too?

You know they are at the same place, right?

[Gaspar]

An attorney buddy of mine just texted me and said that part of the group arrived at the parking lot across from the courthouse earlier this morning and asked one of his clients for directions to the courthouse.  He thinks they are Sharpton's advance team, or as he put it.  "They are opening for Sharpton."

I think Tulsa did quite well with this and continues to do well.  The national media has done their best to try and stir up controversy, but most of the folks they've interviewed have been calm and recognized the tragedy for what it is.  In fact, everyone from the police to the mayor, to the surviving victims, to their families, to the residents of North Tulsa and the surrounding communities have been. . .well. . .Tulsans.  

We are sad, we are angry, we demand justice, but we are also reasonable, kind, and empathetic to the families of the victims.  The crime sickens me but the way it is being handled makes me proud of my community.

[AquaMan]

Yes, truth is, even the Turley people seemed reasonable, surprised and normal. Good thing it didn't happen over in Oakhurst....

[Conan71]

An attorney buddy of mine just texted me and said that part of the group arrived at the parking lot across from the courthouse earlier this morning and asked one of his clients for directions to the courthouse.  He thinks they are Sharpton's advance team, or as he put it.  "They are opening for Sharpton."

I think Tulsa did quite well with this and continues to do well.  The national media has done their best to try and stir up controversy, but most of the folks they've interviewed have been calm and recognized the tragedy for what it is.  In fact, everyone from the police to the mayor, to the surviving victims, to their families, to the residents of North Tulsa and the surrounding communities have been. . .well. . .Tulsans.  

We are sad, we are angry, we demand justice, but we are also reasonable, kind, and empathetic to the families of the victims.  The crime sickens me but the way it is being handled makes me proud of my community.

$harpton's cadre of occupiers?

It's been handled well thus far.  Now we need a thug like $harpton to come in and make everyone believe this is all the result of underlying racism by the rest of us white folk in Tulsa?  Really?

In spite of what the media and the race hustlers are trying to make of this, I'm starting to think after the way our citizens have handled this incident that Tulsa is much further ahead of the rest of the country in addressing racial issues.

I hope I'm off base here and the good reverend will have nothing but positive things to say.  When is he scheduled to be here?

[dbacks fan]

I thought I read somewhere that he will be there on Friday, the 13th. Coincidence?

[nathanm]

I hope I'm off base here and the good reverend will have nothing but positive things to say.  When is he scheduled to be here?

I suspect there will be at least something negative. After all, some white jackasses did decide it would be a great idea to drive around and shoot black people. However, the investigation was treated quite seriously and (seemingly) dealt with efficiently. It's nice to see a crime with black victims treated with the seriousness it deserves. All too often it is not.

[Townsend]

Per the TW Jesse Jackson is joining the fun in Tulsa.

Two heavy hitters in the national civil rights movement -- the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton -- will be in Tulsa this weekend in the wake of the Good Friday shootings that left three black people dead and two injured

So we've got that going for us.  Maybe it'll rain all day...a lot.

[DolfanBob]

Just a quick question. Did the Police ever get any information about who shot and killed that man at the Chicken Shack ? The one that people were stepping over to get their food order, but didnt see anything.

The code of silence out North only works one way. You wonder why these two POS got caught so fast ?
They finally talked and helped the Police.

[patric]

Guys, thats the library.

The protestors are facing the courthouse.
That is the direction you would be facing if you were shooting at someone holding a gun sitting on one of the planters, if something like that were to happen...  

[cynical]

No, I attended a large Tulsa high school in the late 60s. I took Oklahoma history. There was not a word about the riots.

I gather you went to Union in the 60's rather than a TPS school. I assure you all, and the author who wrote that the race riot will only now be taught in Tulsa schools, that it was covered in 1966 in a course at Wilson Jr. High called Oklahoma History I and II. To keep it in perspective, Wilson was entirely segregated as were all TPS schools below the ninth grade. However Tulsa high schools were being integrated at the time Cynic. Central was receiving black students from the Booker T area at that time and I believe one other school, probably Hale, also had a few students. I graduated in 69 at Central and we had about 12% black students, an all black basketball team and lots of interaction between races.

Mind you, very little was written about the race riot in Tulsa. In fact no more than a paragraph. The textbook probably pre-dated the Civil Rights movement. It was discussed as part of a generally unstable time period when WWI had ended and demonstrations and riots were breaking out all over the country. The text failed to mention the details, like it being the largest race riot in the country or specific actions. It was up to the teacher to elaborate or pass it over. Mine passed it over.

I discussed it with my parents who were native Tulsan's and found out it was a really big deal here in Tulsa. So did a lot of other students. We ended up doing our own research if you will. I remember being really pissed that so little had been mentioned in school but times were different. People were scared of the black community and embarassed about the city's history.

[Townsend]

Per KOTV tweet:

An assistant to Al Sharpton told News On 6 the civil rights leader hasn't yet confirmed that he will be able to make it to Tulsa.

[DolfanBob]

Per KOTV tweet:

An assistant to Al Sharpton told News On 6 the civil rights leader hasn't yet confirmed that he will be able to make it to Tulsa.

HOORAY ! not enough boiling going on in our pot.

[Conan71]

HOORAY ! not enough boiling going on in our pot.

That seems to be what attracts him most.

[DolfanBob]

I'm going to see "The Three Stooges" with my Son Saturday.
And I hear two of them will be at a Church in North Tulsa also.