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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 04:29PM

Tarika Wilson, age 26.
Tarika wilson was gunned down by swat team police officers while they were serving a warrent (suspicion of possesion of crack cocaine) for the arrest of her boyfriend, anthony terry, on friday night january 4th of this year in lima, ohio. what's stunning to me is the fact that the officer shot ms. wilson while she was holding her one year old son sincere. the bullet pierced the arm of the infant going through killing ms. wilson, and requiring the amputation of one of the baby's fingers.
There are many things wrong with this picture. first, what kind of human being will fire a weapon at a person, while they're holding a baby?! Why, come into the house lobbing stun grenades, and weapons drawn when in the words of police chief greg garlock, that this was "a long term investigation", then they had to know ms. wilson was the mother of 6 children ranging in age from one to eight, and living in the home.

Lima Ohio S.W.A.T members
sadly, this is another case of many of our people living in the "ghetto" of the mind and passing on the curse of generational poverty. Another case of just surviving on a daily basis. this is not an excuse for the life that ms. wilson or mr. terry chose or was dealt, depending on your point of view. but, an indictment of our government's handling or lack of handling problems that lead to this life style, whether it be the officer that killed her or the actions of mr. terry that brought the police there in the first place. this appears to be the same mindset of the "destroyers" living in dunbar villiage, florida or the killers on hovey street, that took the lives of two women and their small children in Indiana. Same low mindset for both ms. wilson, mr. terry and the s.w.a.t. officer that took the life of a young mother holding a baby, and possibly destroying the lives of of all the children.
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