The Law Won't "Shoot On Sight" The White Guy With A Firearm!

The White guy strolls Akron streets with a firearm and there's nothing the law can do about it. He has a right to do so under the Ohio open carry law.

If a mass shooting happens, the blame game often comes into play. From the Charleston shooting to the most recent shooting in San Bernardino, the agitators want to point fingers at each other rather than solve problems. President Barack Obama said that we're becoming numb to mass shootings. It's like an everyday occurrence in the country.

When the shooter is Black, he's either a thug or Obama's son. When the shooter is a Muslim, he's either a terrorist or a supporter of "radical Islam". When the shooter is Hispanic, he's either an illegal or a drug smuggler.

When it comes to innocence before guilt, Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims are often guilty before trial.

 When it comes to White people, they're innocent until proven guilty.

White people are often given glowing profiles when they're arrested. Blacks, Hispanics and Muslims are given menacing profiles (i.e. use of drugs, hand signs, criminal history or views opposed to the United States).

White people stockpiling firearms is just prevent a government gun grab. Muslims stockpiling firearms is a potential terrorist attack.

The junk food media ignores "NICE GUYS" being the most dangerous individuals to ever hold a firearm. The "NICE GUY" is probably the ones who are likely going to commit acts of mass murder.

These are the people who are shunned by society. They have been hurt by relationships, jobs, discrimination, and unfortunate circumstances. They get influenced by events, groups or self-infliction.

Raw Story reported on an Ohio man deliberately toying with residents. He is using Ohio's open carry laws to walk around neighborhoods with a loaded semi-automatic firearm.

Daniel Kovacevic, 25 year old man was testing the law.

So he goes into Akron and Cleveland wearing his firearm on his holster. He stands near a Black barbershop.

The barber is of course shaken by this. He calls the law on Kovacevic and they come to the area. Of course, the law was tied up with other issues and said that he wasn't causing any problems in the area.

The owner Deone Slater did not want the man with his rifle hanging out in front of his shop.

Kovacevic was warned about trespassing and was told to leave.

He escapes the law without a scratch on him. Many in Black America are fumed up over the fact that a White man with a firearm can stroll through Black neighborhoods without being arrested or shot.

But when it comes to John Crawford picking up a BB gun from the Walmart shelves and Tamir Rice playing with a pallet gun, they were shot on sight.

“He was a threat to my community,” Slater said. “If I can prevent him from shooting up the city, I would. I won’t condone it. Somebody’s got to stand up.”

Slater said he was yelling profanities at Kovacevic when police arrived, and that Kovacevic said little during the confrontation other than to ask him if he was a Christian.

“I told him to take his guns off. I told him let me have five or 10 minutes with him without his weapons,” Slater said before adding that the police seemed more concerned with him than the man carrying the gun, and that he believes race plays a part in it.

“They (police) were more concerned about me than him, as if I were the threat,” Slater explained. “If it were me with a gun, they would have shut the whole block down.”

“He’s a threat to me and my people. He’s a threat to me.”

Police have been monitoring Kovacevic for days after receiving calls from security at University of Akron that he was seen near the school carrying his rifle.

Had he been a Black man, he would have been shot on sight.

Rules Of Disengagement!

Steak out!

I almost want to say it's staged.

There was this asshat who ran up on family loading groceries into their vehicle. He decides to confront the family because they used a food stamp card to purchase food. What got him livid was the fact that one of them was using his money to purchase lottery tickets.

In the 2 minute YouTube video, you clearly hear the man confront them for using food stamps and purchasing lottery.

They get into a verbal tirade.

The guy stops his vehicle and jumps out. He confronts the woman who is allegedly pregnant smoking and then sees a steak inside the shopping cart. He picks it up an ultimately declares that 

"Steak is for fucking taxpayers"!

Man films couple after he caught them purchasing food with EBT. One of the person filmed was playing with lottery tickets.

Now would you want someone coming up on you yelling and then reach into your grocery cart?

I seriously believe it's a staged act to generate click bait. Because if this guy was bold enough to do this, he should get the cuffs and a night in the county lockup. 

The safety net includes social security, disability, food stamps, farm aid, Medicare, Medicaid, and welfare. Don't forget there's veteran's assistance, disaster relief, student aid, and victim's claims.

The middle class, lower class and those who are too poor are the core of the safety net.

The rise in energy, rent, insurance, food and gas, people are turning to food stamps, food banks and government assistance to keep themselves from landing in the homeless shelter.

Without a safety net, these people will rob and kill those who have the luxuries of having food in the refrigerator or in the pantry. They would steal fuel, water, bread, baby formula, diapers and meat to keep feeding their families. And yet, these Republicans and their conservative allies are thinking the poor are the reasons for the economic recession. Perhaps those who complain about the poor, should walk a day in that person's shoes!

The Republican Party and its allies in the conservative movement are heartless when it comes to the lower and middle class. In their warped minds, the lower class and those who are too poor are stealing from the taxpayers by accepting food stamps, welfare and necessaries.

Blame Game: Syed Farook And Tashfeen Malik!

It's getting old. World News Today send our condolences to the victims of this senseless tragedy.

Will the conservatives label this terrorist a "Democrat"?

I am waiting on the media to figure if he's a member of the Islamic State?

I am waiting on the media to find out if he support the Tea Party Movement.

I don't give a flying fuck about the political views this terrorist. The only thing that I care about is the fact that this terrorist and his wife managed to massacre innocent civilians in San Bernardino.

The terrorist was a "NICE GUY" who was married with a child. The terrorist was an inspector for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, was reportedly in attendance at the department's Christmas party. Coworkers reported that he had been quiet during the early parts of the event and noticed he had left the party abruptly, leaving his coat, before a group photo was taken.

There were some reports that an argument occurred before his departure.

The terrorists Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik went into the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, with 14 dead and 18 injured. The terrorists targeted a party for employees of the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, held in an auditorium with at least 100 people, before fleeing in an SUV.

Conservatives are already placing the blame on the Muslim community. The Muslim community isn't responsible for the actions of one. Nobody I know supports senseless violence.

Just today, I just looked at the comments of the previous story posted yesterday and our resident right wing troll continues vomit on the comment pages with the usual tactics.

Deflection, distraction, diversion and disengage. This is the tactics of conservatives in the junk food media. They are so obsessed with "radical Islam" they fail to recognize the obvious. Gun crime is on the rise and our American lawmakers are inept in getting things done.

It seems like it's going to be a discussion about firearms in the workplace or firearms in the hands of those with mental issues. Mental issues and firearms are often associated with mass murders.

But somehow our inept Congress refuses to do something about it. Congress aided by their agitating friends found a solution to mass shootings. They call for more guns in the workplace. More looser restrictions to own firearms.

These laws mainly apply for White people. Whites people rather not see their restrictions to have firearms impeded. The agitators and some in Congress rather see firearm restrictions on Blacks, Latinos and Muslims.

In the wake of tragedies, the Republicans don't want President Barack Obama to "politiicize" a tragedy for gains. But given that the terrorists may have been inspired by the Islamic State, expect Republicans to "politicize" this. They will find ways to pressure military involvement back in Iraq and Syria. They want the American military to stop the Islamic State but offer no direct strategy to taking the extremist group.

They will use this tragedy as an excuse destroy the Iranian nuclear deal.

Mass shootings are becoming almost a daily occurrence.

See once again, our junk food media will spook the American people with tales of the scary Muslim.

Here's the usual tactics of the junk food media.

Black Shooters = Thugs = Muslim Shooters = Terrorists = White Shooters = Mental Illness

Black Drug Dealers = Thugs = Hispanic Drug Dealers = Drug Cartels = White Drug Dealers = Troubled

RIGHT WING TROLLS = WHAT ABOUT THIS?

Nothing Gonna Change: Mass Murder In San Bernardino!

Mass shooting in San Bernardino.

A bullet has no eyes. It will always hit a target.

Stay tuned for the Blame Game. I will take an opportunity to write about it as soon as I can.

While I was at work, I heard about this tragedy in California. Matter of fact, I just shake my head when I heard about it. Another mass shooting in the United States. Just last Friday, a mass shooting.

Every month has been a mass shooting. And it seems to be getting worse by the day.

Here in the United States, we have more gun violence than any other nation in the world.

Our inept lawmakers are ignoring the obvious. The Republican Party and their conservative allies are totally stupid. They say that all criminals are Democrats. They believe that "radical Islam" is a bigger threat than gun violence.

Now I can assure you that many on the left are getting tired of hearing the right sending prayers and thoughts to the families. I am getting tired of hearing agitators complain about "politicizing" events.

I am getting tired of having to hear every agitator point to one group instead of the shooter.

This shit should be politicized. We're not doing enough to stop gun violence.

Tactical units were dispatched.

San Bernardino has experienced a mass shooting today. Three suspects (one man and one woman) emerged upon the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California guns ablazing. These suspects managed to take out at least 31 victims. There were 14 dead and 17 injured.

The shooters reportedly targeted a banquet hosted by the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health, held in an auditorium with at least 100 people in attendance.

Initial reports indicated there may have been up to three shooters with rifles. They fled in an SUV.

Syed Farook was leaked to the junk food media as one of the suspects still at large. He has managed to elude authorities for the time being.

Democratic governor Jerry Brown and President Barack Obama were notified about the situation.

The presidential candidates have also been notified and express condolences for the victims.

President Barack Obama went right into it. "Our hearts go out to the victims and their families." He further commented, "People we don't allow to fly could go into a store right now in the United States and buy a firearm and there's nothing that we can do to stop them. That's a law that needs to be changed."

He called for bipartisan cooperation to reduce the frequency of events such as this.

Who will actually be blamed for the mass shooting tragedy in San Bernardino?

Barack Obama

#BlackLivesMatter

Islamic State

NRA

Muslims

Congress

The Shooter

All Of These Above

Poll Maker

This goes right up with the Sandy Hook tragedy.

GUN CONTROL ISN'T ABOUT TAKING YOUR GUNS!  

IT'S ABOUT KEEPING THEM OUT OF THE HANDS OF STREET GANGS, DRUG CARTELS, PEOPLE INVOLVED IN SEX TRAFFICKING, TERRORISTS, VIOLENT CRIMINALS, ANIMAL POACHERS, PEOPLE WHO HAVE MENTAL ISSUES OR ABUSIVE FAMILY MEMBERS! 

WILL IT TAKE THE SHOOTING OF A GUN RIGHTS SUPPORTING REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT TO CHANGE THE TONE? 

I GUESS NOT! CAUSE GABRIELLE GIFFORDS WAS A GUN SUPPORTING LAWMAKER WHO WAS SHOT IN THE HEAD. SHE BARELY SURVIVED HER SHOOTING. NOW SHE IS PERMANENTLY DISABLED AND NOT ONE OF HER COLLEAGUES IN CONGRESS DONE ONE THING TO CHANGE THE TONE. 

WHO'S GOING TO BE SHOT BY A PERSON WITH MENTAL ISSUES OR EXTREME POLITICAL VIEWS? 

HOW MANY COPS WILL BE KILLED BY ASSAULT WEAPONS?

HOW MANY INNOCENT VICTIMS AND UNARMED CRIMINALS BE KILLED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT?

HOW MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE TO BE SHOT FOR DOING THEIR JOBS AS PUBLIC SERVANTS, RETAIL CLERKS, FEDERAL WORKERS, AND THOSE WHO REPORT THE NEWS?

WHY DO WE CONTINUE TO BE BULLIES TO THOSE WHO MAY EVENTUALLY TAKE REVENGE ON ALL OF US AT THE BARREL OF A GUN?

I'M NOT ASHAMED TO SAY THIS! WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE ISSUE WITH FIREARMS AND THE RISE OF EXTREMISM CAUSED BY HOSTILE POLITICS! 

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA AND CONGRESS BETTER GET THEIR HEADS OUT THEIR ASSES! THIS STUFF IS HAPPENING EVERYDAY AND PEOPLE ARE GETTING TIRED OF IT.

I DON'T WANT PRAYERS AND THOUGHTS. I WANT ACTION NOW! NO MORE BULLSHIT ABOUT GUN GRABS AND FALSE EQUIVALENCIES! END THE BLAME GAME! END GUN VIOLENCE! 

Chicago's Top Cop Fired Out The Cannon!

Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel fires his top cop out the cannon.

Looks like it's curtains for the police commissioner Gerry McCarthy. The Chicago police's top cop was fired out the cannon for inept management.

Chicago has experienced a rise in gun violence, gang violence and possible police corruption within the department.

All the recipes for embattled mayor Rahm Emmanuel to light the cannon and send McCarthy right out of the tent.

The Laquan McDonald shooting proved to be the boiling point for residents fed up with police corruption, the constant gun violence and gang violence plaguing the third largest city in the U.S.

McCarthy was hired by Emanuel to take over the Chicago Police Department shortly after Emanuel's election in early 2011. McCarthy was the City of Chicago's highest paid public employee, earning an annual salary of over $260,000.

The number of crimes and murders in Chicago declined under his tenure (with murders declining from 525 in 2011 to 505 in 2012 to 415 in 2013).

In an investigative article by Chicago Magazine reporters David Bernstein and Noah Isackson, it was asserted that the decline was in part due to the unjustified re-categorization of murders as undetermined and then if it is later determined to be a murder, tallying the total to the prior years' statistics.

McCarthy responded that the article is “patently false” and criticized its reliance on anonymous sources.

A 2012 audit by the Chicago Inspector General determined that the Chicago Police Department had under-counted aggravated assault and aggravated battery victims by 25 percent by not following state guidelines by counting each incident rather than each victim.

McCarthy attributed the error to the administration of the prior police superintendent, Jody Weis.

Anita Alverez is facing some major heat as well. After the release of the video of now disgraced cop Jason Van Dyke putting 16 rounds in the fleeing Laquan, people are saying it's political corruption.

Alverez denies that she held back the video to help Emmanuel's chances at winning the election.

Calls for her removal from the Cook County prosecutor are growing as well.

Even Jesse Jackson is turning his back on the Chicago mayor. He is calling for Emmanuel to resign.

The shooting happened in October 2014. That was about the time Rahm Emmanuel was facing a tough reelection bid. Emmanuel was reelected in April 2015. The video release happened 13 months since the shooting and seven months into his second term.

The federal and state courts ruled that the video must be shown and it was being held back in fear of political backlash. The family of Laquan was paid off earlier this year. The family was awarded $6.4 million in damages.

The Montgomery Bus Incident 60 Years Later!

Rosa Parks got on a local Montgomery Bus after a tired day. She was told to move to the back of the bus for an older white guy. She refused. The bus driver called the law. Rosa was fingerprinted, photographed and booked in the local lockup.

This sparked a movement.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott, a seminal event in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. The campaign lasted from December 1, 1955—when Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person—to December 20, 1956, when a federal ruling, Browder v. Gayle, took effect, and led to a United States Supreme Court decision that declared the Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.

Many important figures in the Civil Rights Movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy.

Rosa was known as the mother of the modern civil rights movement.

Her act of civil disobedience became a historical feat. Her impact helped the United States become a little bit better.

The Klan Coming To Your Neighborhood!

The Klan is alive and well in rural Ohio.

In the rural town of Eaton, Ohio, residents were awaken to a plastic bag on their lawns. Inside that plastic bag, some white rice and a pamphlet for recruitment to the country's oldest extremist group.

The Klan was trying to encourage conservative White people to join their cause.

It's certainly spooked some residents and they've asked for the law to do something about it.

The law can't do nothing about it. The only thing they can do is get them for littering and trespassing on property.

There was one person on social media happy to see this on his lawn. Look at the concern troll below.

Matthew Hetzel · 

Owner at Hetzelinc Towing

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The rise of extremism isn't solely a Muslim thing. The most dangerous person to fear is the resentful White male who believes the word vomit of agitators in the junk food media.

Conservative agitators are not solely to blame for the actions of one. Since conservatives love to blame #BlackLivesMatter or the Muslim community for the actions of one, it's only fair to judge them the same.

Woman Gets Death Threats Posting Her Dog Wrapped In Tape!

Woman got death threats for putting tape over her dog's mouth.

You gotta wonder how far is too far when it comes to posting shit on the internet!

When people want to make others laugh, they post funny pictures or jokes. But sometimes, they cross the line between funny and absolutely stupid.

A Florida woman got shook after she posted on social media her dog's mouth being taped shut with duct tape.

Katie Brown is hiding somewhere in the country waiting for the heat to die down. She got a ton of death threats for her Facebook posting.

Not funny. Just plain stupid.

It was shared more than 300,000 times within 36 hours and police were overwhelmed with outraged phone calls from dog lovers around the world demanding they take action, reports the Orlando Sentinel. On Facebook, Brown says she's a South Daytona resident, but police there say she was out of state, possibly in Avon, Conn., when the dog was abused, NBC News reports. The department promised on its Facebook page that it was in contact with her family members and other state agencies as part of its investigation and pleaded with the public to stop "flooding our emergency phone numbers."

Cops in Avon say they were also overwhelmed with calls, while a spokesman for the sheriff's office in Volusia County, which includes South Daytona, tells the Daytona Beach News-Journal that while it is "great that everybody's concerned for the animals and for dogs," the deluge of calls and emails has "literally shut our police department down." Police in South Daytona say they've been told the dog is OK and add they're still trying to locate Brown, whose duct-tape photo had the caption, "This is what happens when you dont [sic] shut up!!!" The original post has now been deleted, but a follow-up one tells people not to "panic" because "it was only for a minute," NBC reports.

University of Chicago Mass Shooting Plot Foiled!

Extremist posted threats on social media. He wanted to massacre students at the University of Chicago. Feds put the brakes on the extremist.

The feds nab a Black extremist who threatened to take out "White Devils" at the University of Chicago. That threat prompted a major shutdown of the campus.

The Chicago Tribune details the suspect and his twisted motives. This extremist was threatening to massacre White people in regards to the now disgraced cop Jason Van Dyke killing Laquan McDonald.

I can already assume the racist right will tie him to the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

The feds bust a student who lived near the campus.

Jabari R. Dean, 21, a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce.

He appeared in federal court Monday afternoon wearing a red UIC hooded sweatshirt and jeans, and kept his arms at his sides as he quietly confirmed that he understood the proceedings. He will be held in jail until Tuesday, when he is expected to be released to the custody of his mother.

In an online post Saturday night, the extremist allegedly threatened to shoot and kill 16 students or staff, and then the police, on the U. of C.'s Hyde Park campus at 10 a.m. Monday, and then kill himself. He cited as a motive the fatal shooting last year of 17-year-old McDonald by a Chicago police officer, which has sparked protests around the city.

The officer, who shot McDonald 16 times, was charged last week with first-degree murder.

In response to the threat, U. of C. President Robert Zimmer canceled all classes and other activities planned for Monday on campus.

Zimmer called Monday a "challenging day" but said classes and other operations will resume Tuesday.

The FBI does not consider this extremist a threat, and he did not have the weapons to carry out the threat, federal prosecutors said in court. If convicted, he faces a maximum of five years in prison. The extremist was a student at Chicago State University from 2013 until summer 2015 before transferring to UIC this fall to study electrical engineering, according to records from both schools.

Pennsylvania Police Chief "Really Cared" About N****rs Reading!

Two weeks in and he's already fucked up. A small town police chief was fired out the cannon after it was revealed he made some offensive remarks about Black people in an email sent to residents of a nearby city.

The town of Farrell, Pennsylvania had to fire the police chief out the cannon, two weeks into his new job. The town found out that the chief had used a racial slur in an email sent to a group of school administrators in nearby Sharon. They didn't properly vet the guy and now they're doing damage control now that he's been fired out the cannon.

Farell is 15 miles from the city of Youngtown, Ohio. The controversy became a national headline.

The folks over at Raw Story got the story on lock. In the email, the now disgraced police chief said that  “N****rs gotta learn how to read.” It was a remark made after he participated in a book drive for the community.

Tom Burke sent the offensive email to around 40 members of parent-teacher organizations connected to elementary schools in Sharon, Pa. He was sworn in on Nov. 17 as chief of police. The offensive email came to light shortly thereafter.

Farrell Mayor Olive McKeithan said that she asked for Burke’s resignation in a meeting on Wednesday.

“I asked him if he would step down because I thought it would be best for the community,” McKeithan told the Sharon Herald. “He said ‘yes.’”

Burke said at his resignation that his intention was never to offend anyone.

About half of Farrell’s residents identify as black. Burke was set to take office at the beginning of 2016. He retired as the police chief of nearby Sharon in 2007.

Although Burke resigned on Wednesday, the city did not make the news public until the weekend due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Michael Ceci, Farrell city manager, told the Herald by phone on Friday that he would never have hired Burke if he’d known about the offensive email.

“He wasn’t set to be on the job until Dec. 1, so we allowed him to resign before he actually was on the job,” Ceci explained.

“(I)f somebody were to ask if we had discovered this e-mail during the interviewing process would we have hired him, the answer would be no,” Ceci said.

“When dealing with the public sector people should expect more from us,” Ceci said. “There is no place in government on any level for this.”

Black Pastors Cancel Trump Endorsement!

Trump has a Black supporter, retired NBA player Dennis Rodman.

Donald Trump was going to hold a press conference today. It was suddenly canceled after it was revealed that the people who planned on endorsing him for president backed down.

A group of 100 Black clergy men were supposed to meet privately with the Republican front runner at the Trump Tower this week. It was going to be followed by a press conference. That was canceled after many a backlash from members of the Black church.

Some of the members were concerned that their church may face scrutiny if they endorse him.

Some in the Black church believe that Trump and Ben Carson are too polarizing.

It didn't help much to find out that Trump retweeted a crime statistic that many saw as a racial dog whistle. To make it even more clear, he tweeted an organization that doesn't even exist. The statistic came from some White extremist website.

And the brutal take down of a #BlackLivesMatter activist at a Trump event in Alabama happened.

Matter of fact, did the Black community forget that Trump was constantly bugging for President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

Trump's biggest Black backers so far is Dennis Rodman and those two women who made a viral YouTube video slamming Megyn the Outrage Princess.

Even Hispanic and Black Republicans are concerned about the direction of the party.

This weekend Black conservative agitator CJ Pearson denounced the Republican Party when they ignored the obvious police brutality in the Laquan McDonald shooting.

Kobe Bryant Retiring!

Kobe Bryant retiring after the 2015-16 season.

Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant announced he's packing it up after this season ends with the NBA. He is 37 years old and has been battling injuries since the last season.

"I'm ready to let you go," Bryant said in a poem, titled "Dear Basketball," published on the Players' Tribute website.

There has been whispers about the legendary baller's retirement since the 2014-15 season. But now we can finally confirm that Kobe's time is up. He's going to retire a legend.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver called Bryant "one of the greatest players in the history of our game" in a statement given to the junk food media.

"With 17 NBA All-Star selections, an NBA MVP, five NBA championships with the Lakers, two Olympic gold medals and a relentless work ethic, Kobe Byrant is one of the greatest players in the history our game. Whether competing in the Finals or hoisting jump shots after midnight in an empty gym, Kobe has an unconditional love for the game".

Silver added, "I  join Kobe's millions of fans around the world in congratulating him on an outstanding NBA career and thank him for so many thrilling memories".

Kobe is a 20 year NBA veteran in the game. He is currently third in all-time scoring points. He comes behind the legendary Karl Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in scoring.

Kobe is married to Vanessa Bryant (nee Laine) and has two children.

He has appeared in movies, video games, and has endorsement deals from major companies.

Kobe beaten a rape charge in 2003 when he was accused by a Colorado hotel staffer. He appeared with Vanessa by his side to tell the junk food media that he had numerous affairs on his wife. He admits that the he had consensual sex with the accuser. The accuser refused to push the charges further.

Did you know that Kobe had a feud with former teammate Shaqueille O'Neal?

Did you know that Kobe is 6'6"?

Kobe grew up in Philadelphia, and attended Lower Merion High School located in Ardmore, in the Philadelphia suburb of Lower Merion. He was one of the first NBA players to leave straight out of high school to join the league.