Natina Reed’s parents accuse cops of lack of communication

People seem so anxious to just assume she was on drugs and she was staying at a hotel where they rent by the hour or something.

Maybe it’s just in my area, but ES hotels are not cheap. And nothing has been said of this woman seeking drugs or performing escort-type services so I don’t see why her living in an ES hotel for a while automatically denotes some other vice of hers that must have been controlling her life.

Whitney Houston died at the Beverly Hilton. But I guess she could not have been staying there in “transition” becuase it’s the Beverly Hilton and not an extended stay, right?

That’s just ludicrous.

@Milky

Another example.. years ago while I watching that reality show Kimora Lee Simmons had, she was doing the exact same thing.

She was selling her house in NJ and looking for a house in LA. In the meantime, she and her two daughters were staying at the Ritz Carlton in Beveraly Hills for close to a month. They were there so long, Kimora bought her OWN sheets to put on all of the beds in the suite.

Was Kimora NOT in transition as well? The only difference that may exist is that Kimora could afford to stay at the Ritz while “transitioning” and Natina couldn’t afford that.

But people seem so determined to make this lady’s life out to be some pinnacle of tragedy. I just don’t understand. It’s rather sad, I must add.

-Crickett

Thank you! You seem to be one of few people informed about what an ES is.

I think many folks just heard she was living in a hotel and automatically ran with the assumption that she was living in a place similar to a Motel 6 or something.

@Pisces, I understand what your saying but I have seen nice extended stayss and I have seen “crackish” extended stays.

In my city those extended stay hotels are in nice areas. I had a friend who was staying at one for about 2-3 months, it had a kitchen and everything…lol….Natina probably WANTED to stay there, she could have her own privacy and move about how she pleased…either way her parents are trying to find answers when the simple answer is that she was walking by herself and someone did not see her and hit her…whatever was going on before hand is truly irrelevant…

@Sandra

He’s probably trained to smile when someone is taking a picture….it’s probably not that deep….

– Keesh

Just because a certain place may seem “crackish” or undesirable, that should not lead one to deduce that all residents of that place must subscribe to that same vice.

From reading, I’ve noticed that there are quite a bit of Chicago residents on this blog. From mainstream media portrayals of Chicago as of late, that place looks like the jungles of Vietnam with all of the violence and happenstance.

Should I assume that all residents of Chicago must be murderous, heartless thugs that will even kill their own siblings should they stare at them the wrong way?

No! That’d be an overtly close-minded thing to assume.

My point is just that I people may need to broaden their thinking a bit more as it relates to ES hotels, this young woman’s death and other things.

The outer appearance of an area should not preclude an automatic blanket assumption about all of that area’s occupants.

But I do respect your opinion and the manner in which you offered it.

-Bootcamp

Maybe I am mistaken, but I thought that’s how it worked in all public school systems. The property taxes determines how much money goes to the schools, right? Schools with less funding and such tend to be in poorer neighborhoods and vice versa.

Unless they are saying that they look at the individual amount of property taxes paid by the parents of each student and place the child accordingly. Now, THAT would be utterly ridiculous and quite classist.