It's Been Two Weeks Since Two Young Women Were Murdered in Rochester, NY's Notoriously Lawless, Chaotic, and Violent Puerto Rican Festival Weekend...

​By Davy V. 

It's been two weeks since Zahnia Barr, 14 , and Shakara Green, 35, were shot and killed in connection with the  lawlessness, chaos,  mayhem, and violence that Rochester, New York's Puerto Rican Festival brings to my hometown every year.

                                           Zahnia Barr

Zahnia was shot on Rochester's North Clinton Avenue, or as Rochester's Puerto Rican community so proudly calls "La Avenida".

According to Rochester Police, someone fired shots into a crowd that had gathered after the Puerto Rican Festival.

Police say Zahnia was shot in the upper body.

Some say she was shot in the head.

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

                                        Shakara Green

Shakara was shot on Clifford Avenue and North Street.

Rochester Police say she was shot in the neck and just like Zahnia, Shakira was also pronounced dead on the scene.

As I'm writing this,  both murders still remain unsolved, despite, at least in Shakara's murder, there being video which captured her killer.

In the video, filmed  by someone live-streaming the lawlessness and chaos which included people yelling, screaming, hanging out of cars, and waving Puerto Rican flags., you can see a dark colored sedan driving on Clifford Avenue, as an individual appearing to be standing out of the car's sunroof, is seen holding a firearm snd firing several shots.

In the video, you can clearly tell that the individual is light skinned.

Possibly Latino.

As I have written in my previous pieces, I strongly believe Rochester, New York's Puerto Rican community is protecting the killer.

                       Killer Captured on Video

It's been two weeks since the senseless murders of Zahnia and Shakara.

Two weeks that their killers are still roaming the streets.

FREE.

So what else do we know?

Well, we know that there have been

NO UPDATES by the Rochester, New York Police Department.

Or Rochester, New York Mayor Malik Evans.

NO PLEAS TO THE COMMUNITY TO COME FORWARD WITH ANY INFORMATION THAT CAN LEAD TO THE ARREST OF ZAHNIA AND SHAKARA'S KILLERS.

NO NEW PRESS CONFERENCES.

IN FACT, THERE WERE NO PRESS CONFERENCES AT ALL AFTER SHAKARA'S MURDER.

NO COMMUNITY OUTRAGE.

NO PROTESTS.

AND OF COURSE, LIKE I ALWAYS SAY, SINCE THE MURDERS OF ZAHNIA AND SHAKARA WERE NOT COMMITTED BY A COP, BLACK LIVES MATTER, PERHAPS ONE OF THE BIGGEST SCAMS EVER, IS M.I.A.

No public statements or denouncing the murders whatsoever.

Including from Orlando Ortiz, the President of Rochester, New York's Puerto Rican Festival.

And that's something that I find extremely disturbing.

Orlando Ortiz has been the President of the Puerto Rican Festival for nearly two decades.

Therefore, Ortiz is very aware of the lawlessness , chaos, mayhem, and violence that HIS Puerto Rican Festival brings to Rochester every year.

And yet, he has done absolutely nothing about it.

NADA.

NI PINGA!

SHAME on Orlando Ortiz, for refusing to make a statement about the issues with HIS Puerto Rican Festival.

SHAME on Orlando Ortiz for not at the very least releasing a statement, expressing condolences to the families of Zahnia Barr and Shakara Green.

                                          Orlando Ortiz

Same goes for Mercedes Vazquez Simmons , a Puerto Rican Monroe County, New York Legislator, who grew up in Rochester, New York's North Clinton Avenue neighborhood.

Mercedes Vazquez Simmons has no problem whatsoever pandering for votes as she's currently running  for New York State Assembly, but she is nowhere to be seen or heard from when it comes to the serious issues related to Rochester, New York's Puerto Rican Festival, as well as the serious affecting her own neighborhood.

I want to be clear.

Like Orlando Ortiz, Mercedes Vazquez Simmons knows very well about the lawlessness, chaos, mayhem, and violence that Rochester's Puerto Rican Festival brings every year.

And she has refused to make any sort of statement.

Just think about that. 

AN ELECTED OFFICIAL.

A MONROE COUNTY, NY LEGISLATOR.

AND SHE HAS NOTHING TO SAY.

              Mercedes Vazquez Simmons 

SHAME on  Mercedes Vazquez Simmons for not only refusing to address the serious issues of Rochester's Puerto Rican Festival.

SHAME on Mercedes Vazquez Simmons for not refusing to denounce the murders of Zahnia, and Shakara.

SHAME on Mercedes Vazquez Simmons for not making a public statement expressing her condolences to the families of Zahnia Barr and Shakara Green.

Mercedes Vazquez Simmons knows exactly what she is doing.

Just like Rochester, New York Mayor Malik Evans, who has refused to even consider permanently cancelling Rochester's Puerto Rican Festival, the last thing Mercedes Vazquez Simmons wants to do is risk alienating Latino, specifically Puerto Rican voters.

And that's both disturbing and disgusting.

Elected public officials , ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE, playing it politically safe, instead of addressing, speaking out, and confronting the issues affecting THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES!

THE VERY SAME ISSUES VOTERS ELECTED THEM TO ADDRESS.

Politicians violating and abandoning 

the oath they took, and instead putting themselves and their self interest before the interest of the people who elected them into office.

 It's why The Davy V. Blog exists.

So if you've ever wondered why I am so passionate about what it is that do, well, there you go.

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All Those BILLIONS, and They Won't Take a Single Penny with Them

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                               President Bill Clinton 

By Davy V.

Former President Bill Clinton came to Brighton, New York today.

Brighton, New York is a suburb of Rochester, New York, and where I have called home for nearly 20 years.

A small town of about 35,000 people.

President Clinton was joined by a couple of Billionaires.

Tom Golisano, the founder of Paychex Corporation.

Net worth: $6 BILLION.

And Terry Pegula.

Net worth: $9.3 BILLION.

If the name Terry Pegula sounds familiar, it should.

He's the owner of the Buffalo Bills.

He also threatened to move the NFL team out of New York State if New York taxpayers didn't cough up nearly half of his new fancy $2.2 BILLION football stadium.

It worked.

Taxpayers paid $850 MILLION.

The largest ever taxpayer subsidy for an NFL stadium.

                                    Tom Golisano 

                                     Terry Pegula

President Clinton was in town to give a speech for the graduating class of the Golisano Business Institute.

Of course, I'm sure he didn't come for free.

I'm sure he was paid his commanding fee for speeches, which is $250,00 to $500,000.

I want to be clear about something.

I have nothing against President Clinton.

Me and my family voted him, and I think he was a great President.

But this isn't about that.

This is about something else.

Something I find myself being more and more aware of as I get older.

And that is the disparity that exists in this country, between the haves and the have nots.

Let me explain.

On that stage in Brighton, New York, two old white men, Tom Golisano, and Terry Pegula are worth a combined $15 BILLION.

$15 BILLION DOLLARS.

                    Left to Right: Terry Pegula,

                    Tom Golisano, and  

                    President Bill Clinton

                Tom Golisano and President Clinton

                                Tom Golisano

And I couldn't help but to think of something.

That just a couple of miles to the north of where those two Billionaires were sitting next to President Clinton, is my hometown, Rochester New York.

One of the poorest cities in the country.

Rochester, New York, where the child poverty rate is 42+ percent.

Rochester, New York, where every night thousands of young children go to bed hungry.

Rochester, New York, where veterans who served this country, sleep in cardboard boxes and makeshift tents underneath Interstate 490 overpasses.

Rochester, New York, where school teachers have been forced to buy their own school supplies for their classrooms, because the corrupt Rochester City School District has stolen millions. 

Rochester, New York, a city which has been plagued by violence for decades, including several mass  shootings which still remain unsolved.

Rochester, New York, a city led by an incompetent millionaire Mayor Malik Evans.

And as I scrolled social media and saw the news reports about President Bill Clinton coming town to give a graduation speech, and how he was joined by Billionaires Tom Golisano and Terry Pegula, I just couldn't help but to immediately think of this extremely disturbing juxtaposition:

Two old decrepit white men worth a combined $15 BILLION dollars, sitting next to each other.

And just a few miles away:

Rochester, New York, one of the poorest cities in the U.S.

Maybe it's just me.

But have you ever stopped to think about the disparity that exists in this country between the halves and the have nots?

I know I do.

All the time.

President Bill Clinton came to my town today.

He was joined by a couple of old, white decrepit Billionaires.

Billionaires who have more money than they know what do to with.

So, teachers in Rochester, New York who are under-appreciated, and who don't get paid nearly as much as they should, will continue to buy their own school supplies for their classrooms.

And those veterans who served our country will continue to crawl into their cardboard boxes and makeshift tents underneath the interstate.

And tonight, in Rochester, New York, one of the poorest cities in the U.S., where the child poverty rate is 42+ percent, those same children will go to bed hungry again.

One thing's for sure though.

All those Billions.

And they won't take a single penny with them.

 

Rochester, NY: One of Poorest Cities in the United States 

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