More on the “thing” about the black girl who got shot in the head in queens

[“teenaged nyc girl ‘brain-dead’ after being shot in head during gang fusillade, while sitting in suv.”]

By N.S.

Only seven readers rated the “thing” “top notch,” while 74 (including yours truly) said “next,” symbolized by a garbage can. Nobody voted for “so-so.”

“Shots rang out.” No legitimate reporter should ever use that phrase, which is apparently meant only to confuse readers, by suggesting that the vic in question was not the target. It also apes the practice of black killers of asserting, “The gun just went off!” Shots never ring out, and guns never just go off. Someone shoots.

Another inappropriate phrase in the “thing” was “after getting into a playground fight,” which suggested little girls. The vic, who is barely clinging to life, is 16.

“nyc teen ‘brain dead’ after getting shot in gang-related dispute outside queens park, dad says”
By Khristina Narizhnaya, Joe Marino and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

“a queens teenager who was shot in the head and critically wounded wednesday after getting into a playground fight is now ‘brain dead,’ her grieving father told the post on thursday.

“Claudia Quaatey, 16, was in an suv outside locust manor park after settling a beef with another group of girls when shots rang out around 8:30 p.m. wednesday — with one slug hitting her in the head and leaving her in a medically induced coma, police said thursday.

“now cops are trying to determine if the earlier scuffle had anything to do with the shooting or if the teen was just an innocent bystander.

“‘she had gotten into a fight,’ her father Albert Quaatey, 65, said at the family home in queens. ‘my daughter, she doesn’t happen to be in fights like that. just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

“‘the police don’t have much to say other than it was an angry meeting, that was it,’ said Quaatey, a construction worker who is originally from ghana. ‘so, she’s brain dead….

“‘this is really a good neighborhood, this is not a bad place,’ Albert Quaatey said. ‘lately, these guns, guns, guns, people are dying by the numbers, it’s craziness.

“‘there is a lot of crime,’ he added ‘if they could just keep the guns off the streets, I think we’ll be all right, and we don’t have to bury our loved ones. it is our future we’re burying right now.’”

Additional reporting by Craig McCarthy, Larry Celona and Amanda Woods

N.S.: So, it’s crime-infested, but it’s “really a good neighborhood.”

White neighborhoods, no matter how poor, don’t have “gun violence,” or any other kind, that compares with the richest black neighborhood.

The father asserted that his daughter had told him she was on her way to braid another girl’s hair. Since she wasn’t on her way anywhere, either she lied to him, or he made up a story for the reporters.

So, we’re left reading the tea leaves. Between the linguistic obstacles placed in our way by the six (!) fake news reporters (who implied there was a shooting in the park, and the vic “accidentally” got hit) and the father’s transparent garbage, here’s what it looks like:

Vic Claudia Quaatey, 16, was a black african (ghanaian) gang girl, who got in a fight with a girl from a different gang. The other girl then told her brother or boyfriend from her gang to “get” Quaatey, and so he and two of his crime partners went to the suv and they all shot her, intending to execute her.

But why did the post require six fake news reporters for a load of b.s. that one could have handled?