“No Running Around the Pool, damnit!”
RE: Video circulating online.
On the George Floyd Inflammatory Network? They’ve been waiting for a martyr. Summertime.
Depends on the revelation of races of the sides.
“Teen” and “a cousin of Laquan” are clues but the quiz game isn’t over.
Guilty. Riots.
It turned out to be a Baby Ruth bar.
The video may not tell the whole story, but it doesn’t look good.
He reacted so fast that there must have been a prior engagement.
That poor schlub is going to made an example of to make normal law-abiding citizens submit to beatings, robbery and head-stompings by feral inner-city yutes.
“Reginald Denny assaults concrete block with his head!”
Marjay Dotson should have stayed out of Leto’s grill.
Story now says allegedly Charles Leto , age 55.
Looks a little like Bruce Willis at least around the hairline.
He is in deep trouble.
Until 2020, this park was named for US Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois. When the neighborhood changed, activists demanded that the park be renamed for Frederick Douglass.
The park was created by William LeBaron Jenney and. later, redeveloped by Jens Jensen, two notable figures from Chicago history. The park was once located in a fashionable district, but now it is in an urban ghetto.
They often walk up and say things such as : “You daid, (dead) Honky”. Might provoke this response…I for one would believe them.
This guy is skarewed.
The high video angle suggests a mounted security camera, but the images jerk around as if the camera was handheld. If the camera was handheld, why was someone filming a man working on a bicycle BEFORE anything happened? Because it’s edited and we aren’t seeing what started this?
Looks to me as if the “teens” planned to stroll along, then suddenly surround and either jump the lifeguard, or snatch his bike. The one on the right seems to reach in close and point something, as if he was aiming a firearm. Enhanced video might make a big difference in perception of the case.
The teen in the middle never came close to the shooter, yet was shot while retreating. The “teen” on the left was shot while moving away. Clearcut self-defense, this ain’t.
I can’t tell from the video if green shirt was trying to talk to the girl or the lifeguard. Even if he was threatening bike guy I don’t think there’s justification to open fire there unless he was brandishing which AFAIK he wasn’t.
I looked at their names - one was a normal name, but his cousin had a crazy name.
Our kids have Hawaiian, Welsh and Cornish middle names, but their first names are traditional American names (the top 500 baby names).
Another article had Nuland, the victims’ attorney, saying that Leto’s bicycle had been damaged but not by his clients.
If so, what about the racial dynamics there? Malicious mischief only, or a setup so that Leto could not leave quickly on his bicycle, but would have to fix or abandon it, exposing him to attack either way?
He was very quick to fire.
Mistake one is being in that neighborhood surrounded by youths.