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Grossed out
Hey, Ed, I am a faithful reader of the Trentonian. I read it every day. But I was totally disgusted with your Sept. 20 front page, showing the photo of Jeri-Lynn Dotson lying there dead. I can’t believe your paper would stoop that low to show a picture of the dead body, especially with her children now coming of age and seeing that.
Ruined my day
See the comment above. Gang violence is real, and it affects women, children, parents, families, friends, not just the gangsters themselves.— Ed. Note
posted by Trentonian Editor at
12:43 AM
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Gangs in Trenton bring about controversey fronm all sides. The gangs don't want us to notice, until it's our turn to become their victims. Law enforcement wants us to notice everything that they should infact be able to identify to assist in their prosecutions. Yet, w do notice as we watch out for our lives, living in fear of every move we make, yet the gangs go on. Nothing to this point has really put a dent in what is known to be the greatest plague on society since smallpox. Although, there is a vaccine for smallpox, it remains one of the most dreaded diseases on earth. Such as gangs and gang violence. regularly, we look at gang violence as the face of the accused on the front page of the paper. The other lives involved in the crime are never spoken of. How do the remainder of the families of these dreaded people survice or live with the fact that someone, who they possibly love and respected becomes embroiled in something that society only wants erased from the face of the earth. Yet, they are mothers, father, sister, and brothers, they are people someone loved, lived with and for. How do we handle this side of the equasion? As families are broken, left behind, misused and ostricized by society, they will carry the weight and stain of a life forever touched by the association of their loved on with a gang. The picture of Ms. Dodson, was cruel, unjust and down right disrespectful toward her children, parents and society as a whole. No, she may have not been society's ideal of a perfect person or mother, yet she was a mother and her children as well as other relatives and associates deserve if nothing else to be respected while trying to sort out the reason they are experiencing a grief that effects us all.
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