Meet Andrew Holmes, the man on the right wearing the “I’m a man. I don’t need a gun” t-shirt. He’s comforting a woman whose child was killed by a stray bullet fired in black-on-black violence in Chicago.
Who is Andrew Holmes?
He’s a “community activist” in Chicago, employed as a “crisis responder” thanks to a $1.7M, two year grant from the City of Chicago.
Violence seems to follow his family around. Why is that, we wonder?
In late 2014, his nephew, Marquis Stewart, age 16, was shot in the chest along with a 15-year-old female companion.
His daughter was murdered in Indianapolis last year at around 2:30am. She was out with friends wanting to get into Suite 38, but the bar wasn’t admitting anyone because of a massive bar fight. The fight spilled out and the participants took that “dispute” to a nearby gas station. Two people were killed in the ensuing gun battle and the witnesses scattered into the wind before police arrived, leaving Mr. Holmes’ 32-year-old daughter – an unmarried mother of five – to bleed out instead of providing care for her until medics could arrive.
Maybe he should invest in a gun and learn how to use it.
Because that t-shirt probably isn’t going to stop bullets.
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