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Black Teen Shot Dead Over A Pair Of Air Jordans
In what police called "a random act of 'I want something that person has and I am going to take it from them," a black teenager was shot and killed after attempting to rob a man of his $200 Air Jordans. After being unable to purchase the 'limited edition' shoes, 16-year-old Jawad "JJ" Jabar and 2 other Middletown, Ohio schoolmates, brandished a firearm at a man (of unknown color) who had just bought a pair. The man, who had a valid concealed carry permit, shot once and killed Jawad. Since the dead black teenager was not killed by a white policeman, we doubt there will be any protests, Al Sharpton commentary, or mainstream media blitz.
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Family, friends and school officials painted a different picture Monday than the troubled past of a 16-year-old Middletown High School student who was shot and killed Saturday while trying to rob a man of the tennis shoes he purchased.
Police said the fatal shooting of Jawaad “JJ” Jabbar happened after a limited release of Air Jordans at the Dayton Mall in Miami Twp. They said three Middletown juveniles, including Jawaad, were unable to purchase the $200 gym shoes so they attempted to rob a man who had just bought a pair. One of the juveniles displayed a firearm outside the mall, and the man they attempted to rob shot once and killed Jawaad, police said. The man had a valid concealed carry permit through Ohio, police said.
No one has been formally charged, but the two other juveniles involved in the attempted robbery are in custody, police said.
All three of the teens are students at MHS, school officials said.
Jawaad’s father, Wallace Jabbar, when contacted Monday night by phone, was hesitant to talk about the shooting, but said he was “obviously devastated” by his son’s death. He was out of town working, he said, then his phone went dead.
One of the MHS students there at the time of the mall shooting was cited for a misdemeanor charge in April 2013 for bringing what officers thought was a handgun to the high school. The school resource officer was told the teen was in possession of a gun, but further investigation indicated it was a pellet gun that resembled a semi-automatic handgun, according to police.
In May 2012, the other teen was given a criminal summons by police after being involved, along with two other boys, in a disturbance in the Dollar Store on North University. They were asked by the store manager to leave the day before because they caused a disturbance, but returned to the store, began cursing at the store manager and throwing a bottle that hit two patrons, according to the police report.
This newspaper is not naming the other two teens pending formal charges possibly being filed.
Jawaad moved to the Middletown City Schools District from Columbus earlier this school year, and was a sophomore on the football team, school officials said. Earlier this year, he was charged with petty theft for allegedly stealing Pop Tarts, two plates of fried chicken, a Snickers bar and a plate of sushi from Kroger, 3420 Towne Blvd., according to Middletown police reports obtained by this newspaper. Two other juveniles and MHS football players were charged with petty theft, according to police reports.
Jawaad also was charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly punching a Hamilton High School student at a basketball game, and he was in possession of a “small baggie of marijuana,” while at school, according to police reports.
The Rev. Michael Bailey, pastor at Faith United Church and linkage coordinator at MHS, said Jawaad has been suspended at least twice for his actions. Bailey said he was “blown away” when he heard Jawaad, a soft-spoken student, was allegedly involved in an attempted robbery over a pair of tennis shoes.
“How did I miss this?” Bailey asked. “I never saw this coming.”
He said losing a life over a pair of shoes shows how materialistic our society has become.
“It’s like, ‘I got mine. What about you?’” Bailey said.
Ladonna Matthers, one of Jawaad’s cousin, spoke with his father about the deadly shooting.
“He’s very heartbroken; it’s tragic,” said Matthers, who said Wallace Jabbar was out of town working on Monday. “This is very unfortunate. He’s very polite and well mannered, he likes video games…a good kid. Unfortunately, he got caught up in something that ended his life.”
Matthers said she never knew Jawaad was involved in criminal incidents.
“Very surprised to hear about this,” said Matthers. “Regardless like I said of anybody’s past or anything he’s a 16-year-old child.”
She said Jabbar’s father often worked long hours to provide for his family. “It’s important we keep a hold of our youth, because he’s not the only one, so many around here that has died over drugs or money or trivial (things) they have no opportunity so they get lost in other things.”
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We leave it to LiveLeak to sum it all up...
Just another innocent black male trying to get his life on track tragically shot down in the prime of his life by a shopper selfishly trying to take the last pair of Air Jordan's (What has this world come to)? If only Al Sharpton had been there to mentor this young pillar of the community.
If only.
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Wait until it's a can 'o soup.
Do they have any of the elusive "white hispanics" in Ohio?
Air Jordans are a human right!
DYN-O-MITE!
(Somebody had to say it.)
Regular american kid
Regular american story
unfortunately, or rather logically
More like Petty Theft is a Human Right in the eyes of these Obama Kids.
Compare and Contrast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN3b28U2s2w
$200 for shoes???? They better be able to make you a sandwich too.
i'm assuming the air jordan guy was holstered on his calf. otherwise, the story doesn't ring true
< Ban Air Jordans.
< Ban black teens.
What we should do about this.
WE can put a stop to this immediately!! All youth who wish Air Jordans should get a pair ASAP!! FOAR FREE!!!
Here is the rub: If they were free, no one would want them because they were free. People only recognize value based on a price tag, not on what a product can or can not do.
Veblen good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
Jawaad "JJ" Jabar ?
and his good friend and team mate Messiah ?
We Will Get A "FOLKS..." Comment From Oibama Shortly...
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~"Jawaad "JJ" Jabar ?"~
Jay-wad? Who the fuck names their kid Jawaad or Ladonna and expects him or her to succeed in life?
Apart from all that, to me this is just another story about how we desperately need a national "Right to Conceal Carry" law. Imagine the fear the shooter had when accosted by these three hooligans. I have one last parting thought about this:
"Bet you didn't see that one coming, did ya', Jay-wad?"
Years ago I read a story about how some aid organization was having trouble getting Africans to use mosquito bed-nets that were available for free. The solution was to give it a brand logo, run an advertising campaign giving everyone the idea that it gave its owner high social status (forget about better health), and then sell it for more than it was actually worth. It worked! Don't ask me to find the link.
It really is amazing how "psychologically" that works on a lot of people.
You can't give away an old sofa at the curb with a sign on its saying free but put a sign on it saying $100 and it'll be gone before you close the door behind you...lol.
You just told me how to get rid of a former tenant's bed+mattress with bedbugs, thanks! Parasites for parasites. Merry Christmas, bitchez!
It's the reverse up here. Stick 'free' on something and leave it at the curb and it'll be gone by morning. Stick '$25' on something at the curb and it will be still be there a month later.
BOBOs' values at work: Some household objects gain value by having a Bohemian backstory, or a green backstory. Such backstories would be devalued instantly, and possibly sullied irreparably by money.
Haha, true story. I was working in the hood in LA south central. We were changing out the parking lot lights at a supermarket. We had to haul away the old heavy light heads but had no room. The first day we left them out and hoped someone would take them, they didn't. So the next day we put a sign on four of the units that read "for sale $100 each, call 1-800- stealme "(written numericaly). We went to lunch, and sure as shit, when we came back, two of them we gone. Laughed our asses off.
Indolent, lazy, spend all their money on frivolties... Maybe Che was on to something
Black folks seem to be the demographic most easily manipulated by marketing. I'm no Edward Bernays, but I'm thinking of developing Glock slides with custom spinning inserts and side mounted diamond night sights... If I get the right pipe hittin niggas to endorse my new G-slides maybe I can retire before 40.
Jus member to get yo ass some throw away barrels furst my niggas! Aint nobody got time for tossin out yo strap after a 187 when you dun dropped 2 gurr on dat fly G-slide my nigga!
Homeboy Nyte Sytes
ObamaKicks!!!!
Bullets for kicks is the new buzzword for these thugs...
Gives new meaning to Kicks For Guns.
DaddyO
" Who you are speaks so loudly; there really is no reason for your words. "
No words are necessary to describe this kid.
0'Bamashoe!
What was dat??
You be kidding me.
I can now get some free ObamaShoes at the same place I get my free ObamaPhone!?!?!
You be lying 'bout dis and i will have to cut you.
Obama shoes!
Shouldn't they be Air Kobe's?
alright alright...
Might want to re-read the story, Skippy, but this time for comprehension.
The man had JUST purchased the shoes which meant they were still in the box.
Please don't bring reading comprehension into this when "Johnny Can't Read".
Next on the 11:00 O'Clock News........."Black youth dies trying to redistribute the wealth to underage ghetto kids"
The part that surprises me in all this is the fact they were able to find two of the three kids fathers.
No, it is easy. The negro man who killed the punk kept other two at a gunpoint then called to police.
The police spokesman on the tape wasted a perfectly good opportunity to call this what it was : an emotionally driven robery gone bad.
His blathering about these things happen and no one could have predicted this was stupid enough for me to question his ability to perform any role as a policemen.
Or, you (or the cop) could also describe it as:
An image-based culture comforted by clichés, stereotypes, and inspiring religious and nonsense massmedia messages, he tried to rob his way into his fantasy.
dipshit -100 for such a stupid fucking observation
Not too many White guys blowing $200 on Air Jordan's, though there is a cadre of douchebags and wiggers who will.
Football teams and gangs are handy substitutes for the indigenous tribe model, and they have corporate sponsorship.
All cops should have to go through the same classes and pass a test exactly as the civilian men and women who do for a concealed carrry permit. ONE BULLET, JOB DONE. No 9 rounds fired with 8 missing the target and an innocent grandmother and baby also dead as colatteral damage.
You have to remember that to be a policeman, all one has to do is have a high school diploma and (pretty much) a clean criminal record. One does not have to be particulary smart or even a great shot to be policeman. Mostly what police do is write reports.
How about a Mall Cop?
"Some US police departments have set a maximum IQ score for new officers under the argument that those with overly-high IQs will become bored and exhibit high turnover in the job. This policy has been challenged as discriminatory, but upheld by at least one US District court."
Nine rounds? If only; more like 17 rounds. Nowadays cops shoot until the slide locks. Seems like they shoot to execute rather than to neutralize a threat.
I carry a 19+1 load routinely. Its not for shooting the bad guy once, its for ensuring his posse poses no continuing threat ... Think about it: three guys attempt to mug you... Do you really want only 5 rds available?
Agreed.
There is something seriously wrong with society when MEN value SHOES that highly as a FASHION STATEMENT. Seriously? The most important thing in your life is an expensive pair of SHOES???? No skateboards? No model trains / planes / cars / helicopters? No cars / beach buggies / motorbikes?
You get your expensive pair of shoes and then what do you do? Sit around getting bored because you've got nothing to do? Get a fucking HOBBY!
Oh, hang on. I missed a few things. Who am I whinging about? - the "man" that spends $200 on shoes or the "man" who feels compelled to steal those shoes? Maybe his hobby is running away ...
DISCLOSURE: PT actually did buy a $150 pair of sneakers once. Needed shoes, walked into the wrong shop, was in a hurry - couldn't be bothered trying to find a cheaper shop. Despite spending most of my day in work boots, those sneakers were battling to last nine months! Couldn't even get a full year out of them.
weird, last time I spent $120 on a pair of NB....yeah, they're still in my shoe closet and still get worn 3 years later
Yeah ... it's like we all woke up one day in South Africa ... Soweto and all.
For a $100 more, you can get a kickass griddle that dishes out 60K BTU.
http://www.amazon.com/Blackstone-1554-Griddle-Cooking-Station/dp/B00DYN0438
Must have been some high quality steel toed workboots ... right?
Right, I dont't understand this.Ive gone into Shady neighborhoods and spent 200 dollars + on a good pair of quality Redwing or Wolverine Workboots many times. I have never had a problem whatsoever.
I don't understand it either. I keep hearing that it ended
tragically, but it was a happy ending, wasn't it?
ZH's headline for this should have included some reference to the heartwarming aspect of the story, a CCW ventilating a budding sociopath, alongside the many depressing aspects. But ZH headlines are doom-y. It the ZH brand.
." heartwarming aspect of the story, a CCW ventilating a budding sociopath, alongside the many depressing aspects."
That's for the NRA to do.
It's a good vibration nevertheless, that some things a right with the world. There's a bright side. Etc.
Hope the CCW guy got off clean, legally. They often go through the wringer despite their good deeds.
... Actually, because of them. Government workers don't like competition from sane functional citizens. Dysfunction in society is their bread and butter, without which they'd be the cops in Mayberry: quite few with little need of weapons.
on the bright side, his parents just pocketed his college tuition. as for me, i'm long the human gene pool
where the fuck are the obama-jordans? every child needs his kicks. or maybe michael jordan could give them away to his own race. its the stores fault for not putting the blacks at the front of the line.
one thing is for sure: the dead person is the victim here.
"one thing is for sure: the dead person is the victim here."
How can you be a victim, when you brought it upon yourself?
Outcome based education. Everyone gets to be a victim...
Soooooooo Sorry............only white oppressed minorities can be victims.
Is that white-oppressed or white, oppressed?
wait....did that cop say this was a "random act"!!
I know he's a police officer...but when you target someone specifically for a VERY specific reason....it doesn't have a single shred of randomness to it.
just more evidence that it really doesnt matter what a cop gets up and says in front of the mic, its a bunch of stupid platitudes that may or may not loosely correlate with the actual events - and he knows it
jbvtime
Between grants and scholarships the number of black parents paying for their kids college tuition has to be close to nil.
"on the bright side, his parents just pocketed his college tuition"
uhhhhhh, really? His parents were going to pay for that? Try taxpayer backed student loans at Texas Southern University or Prarie View A&M.
Regular black American kid
Regular black American story
Fixed
He could be anybody;s son .........
Not Mine !
If I had a son he'd look like that poor innocent little shit got shot trying to rob somebody of a pair of sneakers.
Only an obamason would rob somebody for their sneakers
He could be anybody;s son .........
Do you mean that his mother was a whore?
But I do not fuck whores and I certainly did not fuck his mother. He could not have been my son.
So did you fuck his mother?
Upvoted you for calling his mother a whore...
(I guess that 6 people became offended at you calling his mother a whore. Awwwww....)
Gangbangers UnboundBy J.R. Dunn http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/12/gangbangers_unbound.html
Now thats what I call shooting Jawad!
The only tragedy is the other 2 are still alive.
brandished a firearm at a man (of unknown color)
The sad state of the US where an article must mention the race of people as an important factor is a fine indication of the pathetic condition this nation has been thrust into by the America Hater President [aka The Great Divider].
Race and violence are the life blood of the left. Without the threat of cities burning, Obama would have been exposed as a manchurian candidate. It's literally the free shit army that secured his job for him.
All true except he could never win without the support of guilt ridden white folk.
Sad, but true. "White Guilt"; the biggest lie of the twentieth Century. And a majority going for it; too stupid to live.
Air Jordans are the preferred footwear if you're going to march in the Free Shit Army.
and the free shit army is over 50% now, if you include the welfare state and the people on .gov tit. so - it's over. it's down hill from here.
Well over 50% if you include the crony capitalists.
It's easy to figure out the race of the shooter. If he was white, they would have said so. If he was black, they would say nothing. If Hispanic, they would say nothing, but you'd know by the name.
What if his name was Quanah Parker :)
Fuck yes; if the dude with the CC. permit was White; it'd be all like---"trigger happy white man kills troubled juvenile over a pair of shores".
With the "white Hispanic" exception where politically useful.
Good parenting (or rather the lack thereof) is always at the heart of stories like this one.
My white son got an old pair of Air Jordans from his black best friend, a kid who has two hardworking parents who are involved in his life.
are you saying you married a white woman or your wife had a kid from a previous marriage?
couldnt resist it sorry ...
Is "Summers Eve" your middle name?
As I once heard put best on the issue (from a couple where one was a cop and the other a teacher) ...
If parents do NOT raise their children, it is just going to go downhill and this article is a perfect example.
More and more, I think the great society shit from the 60s has lead to our downfall. I think it might have come sooner if not for the legalization of abortion and the subsequent cratering of gun crime (ever notice gun crime tanked about the time "would be" male children would have been in their late teens/early 20s). Unfortunately now it is just reproducing and growing.
Regards,
Cooter
Cooter, if you've never read this, you'll love it:
http://www.amazon.com/Freakonomics-Economist-Explores-Hidden-Everything/...
Merry x-mas :)
Michael Jordan and Phil Knight of Nike have killed more black young men than my CCW ever has.
Nike makes crap shoes by the way. Their junk falls apart.
An even more compelling case has been made that ending leaded fuel allowed the drop in violent crime. This one thing explains it in every society where leaded gas was in wide use then suddenly banned. The drop in violent crime hit 15 years later. A step function downward. The abortion explanation becomes unnecessary when we see that delay everywhere leaded gas was dropped.
"Good parenting (or rather the lack thereof) is always at the heart of stories like this one."
In this instance the kid had a father who was working, and apparently took providing for his family seriously enough to travel out of town for work.
I'm more inclined to blame the culture, especially the gansta rap that promotes the image these kids are trying to emulate.
You're at least partially right, ebear. The culture has forcibly removed the parent from the parenting process and given that function to the state.
http://kidjacked.com/legal/spanking_law.asp
I'll be the first to agree that child abuse is a heinous crime, but the answer is not to criminalize all parenting and turn it over to the state. The state has a brown thumb. Everything it touches turns to shit.
The "culture" didn't do that. The state did. Extend their powers is what government workers do. The founders bitched grievously in the Declaration about it, and set up limited government to slow all that down.
Air Jordans are a human right!
No. But Air Force 1's are. After all, everyone needs 2 pair. I've hear the white on white's are quite hype...
The report doesn't tell us whether the all-important shoes sustained any damage during the fracas.
Just do it!
Tyler the LiveLeak quoter is incorrect as the one shot was one of the robbers. Still though, the Al Sharpton line applies...
Ah.....somebody please provide this lost soul with a sarc button.
Tip for the day: "press it like a crack monkey in a cage".
If he said 'innocent black teen selflessly robbing someone" now thats sarcasm! But this? I dont know man, I just dont know
it is time for the purge IRL.
the niggas and Commies won.
In Chicago the shopper would be dead and this boy would have a new pair o' shoes. Ohio concealed carry works !
Illinois got conceal carry last year, and the new state law pre-empts most of Chicago's previous draconian anti-gun regulation.
Admittedly there are still many caveats and gotchas in the law but it's better than what we had before, which was nothing.
If the guy shooting him was wearing white tennis shoes, that's as good as being white so bring on the looting - yo !
Can you eat air jordans?
Don't forget the Fava beans and a nice Chianti!
He paid more than $200 dollars. Today a pair of worthless rubber shoes. Tomorrow, he robs a bank or a family of 4 and kills everybody. Glad he's gone...
ha ha
Jawad Jabar. LOL. his mommy is going to miss out on two years of welfare checks; they pay to reproduce another useless eater, until said "citizen" is 18. What a joke.
I think he had a role in the latest Star Wars movie
I thought "bowl of soup" was the line from Potemkin.
Headlines are so BS...It should read "Armed Robber shot dead by licensed armed citizen in heist of personal property".......
HE a good boy
Their mamas defend them out of desperation. There's uaually no loving man around for the mother, so the child is the only real love the mother has in the world. Facing the fact that you helped turn the only thing you love in the world into a monster generates predictable denial.
The entire calculus is so unnatural. Translated to the herd scenario, you'd have the strong carrying the weak, who are simultaneously spitting and shitting upon their benefactors, while other strong ones sidle along beside, hectoring the ones carrying all the burdens, and encouraging the weak to hate their benefactors. Any species other than man would erupt into violence after about five minutes. So we can only conclude that those who appear to be strong are not, or have been so domesticated that their nature is changed.
Hectoring is right up there with stealing Air Jordans.
"so the child is the only real love the mother has in the world"
Is that then - apart from the welfare - why they all have so many chillins? And what about the various sperm donors? Don't the baby mamma get no lovin' from dem?
The reverend mentioned how he knew the kid got in trouble numerous times before but was still absolutely shocked to hear that he was involved in a robbery. Um.. what? A fish got to swim and a thief got to steal. It would have been surprising if this kid DIDNT rob some one
...was a good boy. fixed it
He a dead thief.
I don't give two shits what color he is.
Karma is color blind and sometimes a glorious bitch.
Thank you for that sweatheart!
And the sad thing is, they were the wrong size.
the ammo or the shoes ?
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“… on his way to the library to study for his AP exmas in molecular biology, Jamal got distracted by the new Air Jordans and sought to assert his entrepeneural spirit by nicely asking the owner for the pair …”
Da brothas in the hood shouldn't be facing dangers like this when dey gettin their criminal activities on. Whitey sure is hard da brother.
Fucking world-class meal right here:
"Earlier this year, he was charged with petty theft for allegedly stealing Pop Tarts, two plates of fried chicken, a Snickers bar and a plate of sushi from Kroger,"
Let's turn the situation around ask, how many niggas shot someone else dead last night to relieve them of their swag?
I get tired of the use of the word Allegedly.
It gives the "Law Prostitutes" more control over our lives than they diserve. As if a fact cannot be a fact until the Law says it is.
Just say who said what. "The store owner accused the kid of stealing..."
Ergo, alleged.
I wonder if he was planning to chew the pop tarts into the shape of gun?
why you want to be hatin' on Darwin? Darwin is a true pimp and handles his business. HOLLA!
merry xmas faggots.
Upon reflection, preceded by a hearty laugh, I find merit in this statement.
I bet they were grape poptarts...
Ward, whose Facebook name was “BloccBoy Tokyo” took one fatal bullet to the chest in front of the DeWitt Reformed Church at 280 Rivington St. about 9 p.m. on Friday, just a stone’s throw from where he lived with his mom and kid brother in the city’s Baruch Houses on Columbia Street.
The gunman, described as 5-foot-6, 120 to 140 pounds, was wearing a dark wool hat and a ski mask when he walked up to Ward in the 32 degree cold and shot him just minutes after the altercation over the jacket, police sources said.
http://nypost.com/2013/01/06/les-teen-is-slain-for-600-marmot-parka/
Three young men stealing two shoes. Is math taught at MHS?
Common core math.
Good riddance ghetto buck, may you meet TreeCoonMartin, geNita herpes giant, Loosie mam and the rest in hell.
Looks like your empathy is losing the battle with reality.
The Loosie Man should be left out of that equation, for reasons which are pretty fucking obvious, or ought to be.
Loosie might most honestly be used as a poster child for what the USDA recommended diet does to you. Makes you corpulent, wheezy, tired, hungry, addled, gives you cardio vascular disease, diabetes, and of course frequent shortness of breath.
The color of the shooter isn't known? Really? He just bought a $200 pair of Air Jordans. Take a wild guess.
And besides, I feel like I read this article before. Like in 1991.
He might of been white if he knew he could get $400 for 'em.
Hey may could get even more if he takes EBT.....
So white guys can't be sneaker heads now??? the racial sterotyping is getting laughable on this site.
Johnny Cash sing a song where he shoots a man just to watch him die and he's an American legend. Easy-E sings a song about shooting a guy who stole his car setero and he's a nigger menace to America. Boy you fuckers have some double standards.
Eh, that was a song. Johnny Didn't actually shoot someone just to watch him die.
Glad I could clear that up for you.
And Easy E never shot a guy for stealing his stereo you stupid fuck. The assumptions you guys make are laughable. Do you assume James Gandolfini whacked guys as well.
Eh, that was a song. Johnny Didn't actually shoot someone just to watch him die.
Glad I could clear that up for you.
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