Black Teen Shot After Going to the Wrong House to Pick Up Siblings, Kansas City Police Say

NBC Connecticut ^ | 4/17/23 | AP

[Callahan]

A Black teenager was shot by a homeowner after mistakenly going to the wrong house to pick up his younger twin brothers from a family friend's house.

The Kansas City Star reported the 16-year-old boy, who family members have identified online as Ralph Yarl, rang the doorbell and was immediately shot by the homeowner who answered it.

Yarl was meant to pick up his brothers from a friend’s house on 115th Terrace. He ended up ringing the doorbell at a home on 115th Street, Faith Spoonmore, the teen’s aunt, wrote online.

A man opened the door, saw Yarl and shot him in the head. When Yarl fell to the ground, the man shot him again. Yarl got up and ran from the property, but he had to ask at three different homes before someone helped him, Spoonmore said.

[Dan in Wichita]

Blacks are about 12-13% of the population.

Half of them are male.

Half (or less than half) of males are young.

Hence, about 3% of the overall population are young black males. You don't see old black women gunning down people do you?

Why are you trying to defend the indefensible?

[one guy in new jersey]

Seems as if he always gets the call in these matters.

[Fury]

Why are you trying to defend the indefensible?

That’s not the case.

But ur you’re going to make a claim, it should be accurate, no?

When I post a fact that “Of the 355,244 violent offenses charged in 2019, Whites were 59.07% of that total. Blacks were 36.41%.”

and you write back:

“…committing almost 40% of the violent crime, not 50%.”

it’s not encouraging to see you conclude that ~36.5% somehow equates to “almost 40%”.

[Dan in Wichita]

When the 2022 numbers come out, it will be more than 40% of the violent crime is committed by blacks. Wanna bet?

The bottom line is a very disproportionate share of violent crime is committed by young black males. It's a tragic situation that is destroying this country.