Saw him interviewed this morning, he’s about 6’ tall and very well spoken. Rochester Hills is a safe, upscale community way north of Detroit with a very low crime rate. I have no reason not to believe the kid and the home owners were way out of line in the action they took.......If you answer my knock on your door with a shotgun, I’m likely to start running away too but I wouldn’t expect you to shoot at me.
The story does not make sense, it wouldn’t make sense regardless of the races of the parties involved or the roles they played.
How many 14 year olds do you know who don’t have a cell phone with GPS, mapping and directions from your current location? How many teenage boys would attempt to walk to school if they’d missed the bus? Where was his mother or his father, do they both work? Why didn’t he call them, regardless? He’s been going to this school since August of last year, but doesn’t know how to get there?
Sorry, I smell BS and race shaming doesn’t make it smell any better, “knock knock burglaries” are a thing in large cities now, I posted a link to a Google search showing just how many hits that term gets.
Additionally, assuming your description of the suburb is accurate, then the likelihood of a 14 year old boy having a cell phone there is extremely high. The likelihood of professional parents, many of whom drive their children to school anyway, being able to make themselves available to do so is very high as well. What doesn’t jibe with the description of a prosperous, upscale and safe suburb is a homeowner with an elaborate video security system, being on a hair trigger about robbery. That behavior to me says that there have been robberies in that neighborhood.