Remembering 'Red Mike'
They held a memorial service for Mohammed "Mike" Ali Sunday in Center City Park.
Ali, co-owner of Red Mike Grocery on North Elm Street in Fisher Park, was fatally shot in the store on Nov. 9, only four days before his scheduled wedding.
Meanwhile, the robberies continue:
-- two gunmen rob a Kangaroo store on Pleasant Garden Road early Saturday.
-- two men are robbed Saturday night, one at an ATM, the other while walking near Jackson Middle School.
-- And Sunday morning, a pistol-wielding man robs a BP station on North Elm Street -- only hours before Ali's memorial service.
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Such a sad time for Mike's family and friends.
Our community loses a hard-working young man who was just doing his job. My thoughts and prayers are with his loved ones. What ever possesses someone to rob a store and kill a person? They must not hold life in very high regard--not even their own.
Posted on November 17, 2008 10:54 PM
Your thoughts and prayers are with the family, but remember, Allen...you still don't know whether or not "believe" the people who are out there trying to find the killers. This must cause you a certain measure of discomfort
Posted on November 17, 2008 11:27 PM
I've never said I don't support the police or trust them. We have a good police department. But I don't consider them infallible. Do you?
Posted on November 18, 2008 9:15 AM
Allen, last time I checked trust and believing what someone tells you is kind of the same thing, so you seem to be playing at semantics considering your statement re; the police and the Latin Kings above.
In answer to your question of whether I think the police are infallible, obviously not. As to trust, how could you not trust guys to file discrimination suits for a "black book" if they're not even in the black book?
Since you're on the line, are we any closer to an editorial on Mitch's Blue Cheer Christmas Bonus Plan for select black officers?
Posted on November 18, 2008 9:59 AM
I meant "who" file intead of "to" file
Posted on November 18, 2008 10:03 AM
So, Savage, in a sense, you're saying you and I I agree? The police are as imperfect as the rest of us.
On the editorial, we are working on one. Can't say for sure yet when it will run.
Posted on November 18, 2008 12:06 PM
Many thanks, Allen. I think we would agree on many more things than you can imagine.
Here' hoping your prompt response was out of courtesy and not out of fear of me revealing more of my ideas for new novels etc.
Posted on November 18, 2008 1:52 PM
You should let JR know that answering people on his blog, even if they may be borderline trolls who have axes to grind, is always better than "no reply", even if one's position has become logically indefensible. Not that this would cause anybody loss of sleep, but it seems preferable to having people out there, who are angry and bored and may have a borderline un-healthy excess of imagination, getting ignored, because they...start to write their own novels and the situation gets worse.
Posted on November 18, 2008 2:22 PM
In JR's defense, both he and I have been extremely busy in the last several days.
We don't mean to neglect you guys.
You're the highlight of our day.
Posted on November 18, 2008 3:46 PM
LOL!!! Allen, if that's true, that's the saddest thing I've heard in a long time.
Posted on November 18, 2008 4:03 PM