[2ndDivisionVet]

If you’d have taught him not to rob & steal and obey the orders of those in authority, he’d be on his way to Vatterott College to learn heating & air conditioning, pops.

[BunnySlippers]

These are the same people who vote for the likes of Marion Barry and don’t see anything wrong with it. And don’t see anything wrong with Sharpton.

[fatnotlazy]

Exactly. Some good parenting might have saved him. People have kids, then let them raise themselves. Or worse, they let the government raise them.

A child needs a mother and a father who take an active interest in him, nurture him and teach him right and wrong. It also helps if God is part of that nurturing too.

I said when Trayvon was killed that it seemed like his parents didn't really care about him until after he died. I'm beginning to think that's what happened here and is happening all over. Otherwise, I doubt these parents would be telling the world what a saint their child was.

[Cecily]

Had he not been shot, his heating and air conditioning studies were still going to be delayed by his likely arrest and incarceration for strong-arm robbery.