Death and Taxes is reporting that last week two teenage boys helped rescue Jocelyn Roja, a five-year-old girl who had been kidnapped in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Temar Boggs and Chris Garcia, both 15, who were helping an older woman move a couch in the neighborhood, joined the search for the girl after she was apparently lured away from her yard and into a car by a man with ice cream. On their bicycles, the two boys rode around looking for the girl and saw her in the back of a man’s vehicle. They followed the man for 15 minutes, who eventually let the girl go after he realized the two boys were following him. The girl ran to the boys, who returned Roja to her grandmother.
In the wake of the criminalization and demonization of black and brown teenage boys in America, The Burton Wire wanted to bring you one of many instances of black and brown teens contributing to society.
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These two young men are heroes in my book. That little girl may only be five years old, but she will remember those two gentlemen for the rest of her life. Good job guys!
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