Revenge Not So Sweet

The reward in the Ollie Cloyd murder is up to $10,000. According to Darby Borough Police Chief Bobby Smythe that should loosen lips.

A 17-year-old is already in custody and authorities are trying to convince others not to take matters into their own hands.

One can understand the urge for revenge in a case like this. But one kid is dead and the young men responsible for his death have ruined the rest of their own lives. They will be caught. No sense for anyone else close to the Cloyd family to ruin their life playing the part of avenger.

Already too many personal scores are settled in the streets this way. It is the reason too many young black men never make it to their 21st birthdays and too many mothers cry themselves to sleep watching their sons march off to prison. There's no future or satisfaction in this sort of revenge. Only pain and sorrow for loved ones. The question is will street culture win out in this case or will law, order and justice prevail?

Only time will tell.