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Ms. Cherokee's avatar

In this case from me knowing what happened Eddie was the aggressor and he was picking with quette and he even shot at quette before this happened with his son also eddie would see quette occasionally and even threatened him. I hate this happened to eddie but should have left what beef him and quette had in the past and let it go. Quette knocked eddie out in a fight years ago over 8 years ago and eddie couldn't get over it. I send my condolences to eddie's family but quette didn't want to hurt him or anybody , he wasnt even thinking about eddie. And for him to threatened quette over and over was wrong. Quette even told eddie sister to talk to her brother and told her what he was doing, her response was what you want me to do I can't tell eddie what to do. So in my eyes he tried to not go there with eddie but he forced his hand. Marquette was a basketball star not a shooter, that was his first time ever buying a gun and pulling the trigger. It seems like MR set quette up to me to have quette killed and it back fired on him. In thee and both lives are gone,Marquette is my son's father so he shared everything with me. He was a great and active father to all his kids and now these children like every other child has lost their father to gun violence are suffering day to day without their father and need therapy to cope with their lost. I truly miss you marquette and I love you forever until I see you again.😘🥰🙏🏿💪🏾☝🏾💋❤💖💕💔🖤👑😪😥😢😭😭😭😭😡😠😤😇😇😇

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Kimtiyee Thomas's avatar

If you look up the law under a "dual" which is what this altercation turned out to be. Marquette would have only received 4 years state time. Sometimes you gotta leave your childhood memories as that, and realize turf politics keep on moving. They were both guilty.Marquette being my only friend in S.D. me being from Randolph St Lakeview, told me upon his release that possibly P.D. had fired a shot or something to that nature......maybe that's your gap in coverage.

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TonyBoySF's avatar

When you grow up in neighborhood characterized more by its problems, gangs, and wannabe gang members than by it's hard working do right mom's and dads, you may see everything differently through the lens of those deeply personal experiences - that's life, but dueling (please consider checking the definition) was a formal man to man, face to face fight outlawed long ago. I forget how many years ago the killing of Eddie Ellenberg IV happened, but as the story is told above, that was no "duel."

There ought to be one standard of justice not two or three depending on who dies, and who kills them. It sort of seems like here in the wild west, things have reverted to the way it used to be in the early 1800's when law was a new idea, and criminals didn't value life. We hear people talk of respect, or being disrespected, unfortunately, most don't have enough self respect to value their own life, and so someone else's is worth even less.

To DA Chesa Boudin, these cases are not victims and violations of the law, to DA Boudin this is all about the residual impacts of slavery, oppression, abuse, systemic racism etc., etc., etc.. He seems to view these cases as his life mission to even the score card, but he doesn't seem to owe a moral compass to help guide him on his trail through to Hell and back.

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