Community must hold each other accountable
KIDS, GUNS AND HOW WE CAN STOP THE VIOLENCE
Homer Blow has spent years talking about violence in Milwaukee on the radio. The issue took a very personal turn when his friend, Archie Brown Jr., was shot and killed after he stopped to try and help a toddler whom he had hit with his car.
Blow was interviewed for the Precious Lives project, which looks at the causes and consequences of gun violence on Milwaukee’s youth. In this excerpt from Tuesday’s radio piece, he speaks at a vigil for Brown:
“Remember, everybody out here, trust me, if we are going to stop this violence . . . we all — everybody out here — knows somebody that acts the damn fool. And we have to be the ones to hold them accountable. And if we’re not holding them accountable, we can’t be talking about, ‘Well, what are the police doing?’ What are we doing?”