Another tragedy at the hands of "our protectors"

false thought the police thought he had a gun and how about you worry about the hundreds of people who die due to gang violence instead of a accident

How about we worry about all loss of human life?

Right, you can't focus on one work force or anything like that but if people are going to be making a big deal about a kid just running around with a gun in the middle of the night than why don't you point out the obvious that is going around in Chicago you know what I mean?

That's a lie. The national news (CBS, I think I had on) showed the gun. From what I saw, the officer shouldn't be charged. What the hell is a 13 y/o doing with a gun?

90% of the coverage by MSM will show the upper picture, or the video without pointing out the gun. The ones that don’t are the exception to the rule.

You must have done a lot of research to come up with that 90% figure. The two sources I saw showed the gun.

I have seen more than 20 video clips of this encounter. Only 3 have mentioned the gun.

They have mentioned how he wanted to be a cop. That makes me wonder why the Latin Kings have already vowed vengeance.

Why would they do that for someone who wanted to become an enemy?

It's respectable to have all the facts. At the end of this the weapon was ditched and the boy was complying with the officer and unarmed when shot.
It happened pretty fast so yes it was likely a mistake on the officer's part.
So another dead because of a mistake.

No. It was a mistake on the criminals part. If he had never illegally had the gun, he would still be alive.

Quit blaming the cops and start blaming the criminals.

There's blame for both.

I’m a firm believer in “If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.”

It’s too bad that it happened to be a “life sentence”, but if he was truly innocent, he wouldn’t have had the gun in the first place. He also wouldn’t have been shooting at random motorists.

I have absolutely no sympathy for criminal scum, even if they’re just starting their ‘career’.

It's easy to avoid cognitive dissonance if your worldview is righteous authorities and criminal scum.
This isn't Star Wars where the whole Universe is delineated into light side/dark side.

Whatever gets you through the day.