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Skin tone of shooter not described. I hope this does not turn into another Trayvon Martin case.
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Given the evidence that seems to be "in plain sight"--
That this young man was committing a felony while using a [cocked/loaded] firearm...
AND...
The mother's reflection on her son's life and tragic passing...
Seems plainly -- this was a necessary use of force in self-defense--
(as was Zimmerman's use of force against T_Martin--IMO)
That doesn't make it any less sad for the family...
Or for the city in matter of fact--
This young man had a lot going for him.... still in school, etc.
Anyone who attempts to fan the flames of racial division with THIS Birmingham case....
It will tell us a lot more about their publicity-pimp motives...
--than the purported "racism" of the self-defense shooter.
Just my humble....
tyvm
“That doesn’t make it any less sad for the family...
Or for the city in matter of fact—
This young man had a lot going for him.... still in school, etc.”
I agree. Sometimes children just do really, really stupid things. Even fatal things. No matter how well they may or may not have been raised. In my high school, children a bit older than this kid would die in cars wrapped around trees because the driver had been huffing cleaning fluid and/or just driving way too damn fast. And we had one or two killed with gunfire. And these were all upper-middle-class kids. Probably some who even had decent parents who tried. Parents who also had other children who turned out just fine.
If anything, I blame the culture of violence fostered by TV, movies, games, and music, with a major chunk of this culture of violence being a subculture specially tinted black. This 13 year old basically probably couldn’t distinguish fiction from reality and no doubt had no idea at all what mortality really meant. My guess is that he was weak-willed, mislead, and succumbed to pressure from much older, truly bad people to “prove” that he was one of the “cool” people. Quite frankly, there’s much more to what this kid did than possibly less-than-perfect parenting.