Meet the 77-year-old grandma scaring away trouble in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE -- Her name is Martha Freeman, but on the tough streets of Milwaukee, everyone calls her Mama.
By night, this 77-year-old mother of five looks for trouble -- and stops it. The former corrections officer wields only two weapons: kindness and grit.
"I don't see them as bad people. I see them as needing help."
She says no one has hurt here when she confronts them on the streets, and she can handle herself.
"I think it's the respect, you know? Not the fear," Freeman continued.
See she doesn't see them "as bad people" she sees them as "needing help" This is the problem and she is part of it. She is making excuses for them. Every time they do something "bad" someone excuses their behaviour as it being because they needed "help" or they are disenfranchised or some other excuse.
But if the rest if their communities took a no-nonsense, "ain't puttin' up with that" attitude like she does, it would go a long way towards putting the shame back into criminal and gang activities.
God Bless her and wish there were more like her. My husband retired as a correctional officer.
ReplyDeleteSee she doesn't see them "as bad people" she sees them as "needing help" This is the problem and she is part of it. She is making excuses for them. Every time they do something "bad" someone excuses their behaviour as it being because they needed "help" or they are disenfranchised or some other excuse.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree 647, enablers!
ReplyDeleteBut if the rest if their communities took a no-nonsense, "ain't puttin' up with that" attitude like she does, it would go a long way towards putting the shame back into criminal and gang activities.
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