Concerned about crime in our community
Over the past few years and even to this day there has been an increase in shootings and fights and many are not even reported. I feel a growing sense of violence in our great city, and I don’t want this. I alone guided by the Lord have intervened in countless, cowardly acts of men slapping and even punching women. There was this one case where this guy was slapping this young lady with a baby in her arms, and I simply told him over and over again that was so wrong and if it happens one more time he would get worse. Robbery, who wants to work hard all week and have their earnings taken away by force? There is so much, but I know that we are better than this as a whole. Men fighting men over whatever has to stop here. There is so much positive work that needs doing. We live in a nation where opportunity is unlimited. We see each day people from all walks of life trying to get to a better place. I do not want what we have here destroyed.
Andre Deforrest Roberts
Columbus
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