Posted on 01/30/2012 6:29:02 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
It all happened last Wednesday. Prosecutors say Johnson, who was already on probation for aggravated assault, robbed two men in West Reading and was attempting to rob a third along a bike path in Cumru Township in Berks County. But the would-be victim was carrying a licensed firearm, and shot two of his attackers. Johnson was killed. A friend is now in the hospital.
Johnson's mother, Idella Hopkins George, said, "Do I believe he was justified in shooting my son? I would say no."
The family acknowledges Johnson's actions were wrong, but they question why a warning shot couldn't have been fired first.
Johnson's sister, Ashley Jones, said, "He's a kid. His actions-- I don't approve of his actions at all, but he didn't deserve to have his life taken."
In recent days a Facebook memorial page has been flooded with sometimes hateful posts -- referring to Johnson as a "thug" who died like the dog he was.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfmz.com ...
I have a hard time with the way the media plays it too.....as though flat in the dirt on one’s back getting pummelled in thead head leaves open a lot of options.
Anyone judging this man has not a single clue of what he went through.....nor what the monsters perpetrated.
These people think life is an old “A Team” episode. Machine gun fire, explosions, car wrecks and fights, yet nobody gets more than a bloody nose.
Warning shots, LOL. That’s so “T.J. Hooker”.
Yeah, he was “turning his life around.”
The sister talking about a warning shot is only trying to process the pain of her loss. It is sad that the kid chose the wrong path and paid with his life.
So many of the posters on this thread are disgusting. They know nothing of the family, yet deride them in their time of grief. It makes me frequent FR less.
Shame on you! You know nothing about me. But then, you're just an a$$hole..
He was adamant, no transfusions. I asked him why. “Because my Mama [a Jehovah's Witness]said it was a sin.”
It was all I could do to keep from asking if she skipped over the part about sticking a gun in someone’s face and stealing their money.
Parents aren't around. Only the mothers and the grandmothers.
I feel for this old gentleman. I wish he was getting spared what police officers get every time they have to shoot one of these ferals.
It’s the same old mantra. “My kid was a good kid, he didn’t nothing, or well, maybe he made some “mistakes” but he didn’t deserve to die.”
Well, Hoang D. Nguyen, 72,
didn’t deserve to die either, and the same thug mentality that was directly responsible for Nguyen’s death was tried on the gentleman who was able to defend himself.
A hundred unsolved crimes cleared, a thousand future crimes averted.
I’m all for that warning shot. The first one center body and the second one right after.
what did the kid’s father have to say......
“There are parents who try to bring up their kids in a good way, and try to stop their kid from doing bad things, but it doesn’t always work.”
In this case, a parent. Statistics demonstrate that single mothers are far more likely to produce criminal offspring. She has two children with names different from her own. I doubt it was because she was married twice.
This indicates failing, twice, on her part, even before parenting is involved.
Statistics are, again, that even as a single parent, she made no great effort to raise her thug in a good way, instead seeking more gratification for herself and neglecting her children.
Right now she is experiencing remorse on what she could have done, perhaps on his last day or two, to make her robber son not get shot while robbing. Sorry, too late.
She had at least a dozen years to show him the right way to live. She apparently had other things to do.
The young fellow would have been well served to have been locked up for his first infraction thus protecting him from the dangerous public.
But you don’t know if it is a different marriage. You are assuming. Why do you doubt that she might have been married twice? Because she’s Black?
She is grieving. Again, you don’t know what she had done in the years leading up to this. You are assuming.
If her stupid brother put a sign on the road warning people of robbers none of this would have happened.
I doubt she’s ever been married.
But you don’t know if it is a different marriage. You are assuming. Why do you doubt that she might have been married twice? Because she’s Black?
Bad kids come from families of one and two parents. It may be true that it is higher in single parent, it still doesn’t mean that every single parent has a bad kid.
She is grieving. Again, you don’t know what she had done in the years leading up to this. You are assuming.
It still doesn’t excuse the nastiness on this thread. FReepers should be above this.
The kid’s male DNA donor is likely either dead or in prison.
When you decide to carry a weapon you need to know that if you need to pull it then you need to be willing to end a life and live with the consequences. Maybe this guy will not have nightmares or cold sweats, but his friends and family will never look at him the same way again.
Yes he did the right thing absolutely beyond the shadow of a doubt, but when you end someone elses life you also significantly change your own.
Why?
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