youth violence

Senator Joe Griffo and community leader Courtney Muhammad appeared on WIBX's Keeler Show on Thursday to discuss ways to fix the problem of youth violence in Utica's inner-city. Over the last year, violence and especially gun violence and crime have riddled Utica's inner-city streets, including a shooting that occurred following a football game at Proctor High School in the fall.

Was the teenage son out of line for punching out his mother's aggressive boyfriend? Is it self defense or assault? Can you call it a sucker punch or should the boyfriend have saw it coming? The boy DID warn him to leave or he would knock him out and looks like that is exactly what he did. WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO.

For the most part my long weekend in Buffalo for the forth of July holiday was wonderful and uneventful. Just one thing put a dark cloud over my visit. Just down the road from where my family and I were sitting to watch the fireworks display, a brawl broke out. Buffalo's WIVB-TV hast the complete story.