"Fifty percent of our homicides this year have been related to family violence."
That's the stark reality that Prince George's County State's Attorney Angela Alsobrooks says her office is seeing. From the case of now-former Ravens football player Ray Rice to the recent deaths of two toddlers -- allegedly killed by their mother -- Alsobrooks says family violence is "is killing us, literally killing us."
Weeks after she stood in the neighborhood where a 3-year-old was killed by her own father as he fled from police, and announced an effort to involve the faith-based community in working with families, Alsobrooks has renewed a call for a more comprehensive approach to domestic and family violence.
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2 comments:
That's because the population there is mostly black.
10:59 - let them kill each other!
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