No one is taking the heat off of the shooter, dude is charged with attempted murder as he should be.
Taking away a phone as a form of discipline and sending that child into the world with no way to communicate with anyone in the event of an emergency is absolutely idiotic. The kid was lost and needed to know how to get to school and because he had no phone to assist him, he had to go to the next best alternative which was to seek help from the strangers who subsequently shot at him.
Black people need to stop moving based on emotion and think logically at all times. Taking your child's only means of communication away is sending them into the same world you warned them about handicapped.
If the only thing that Black people get from this story is "white people are racist, why did they shoot at that poor kid", then their parents have failed them.
We should read a story like this and ask ourselves how we can reduce the risk of this happening to ourselves or our children in the future. One solution is to never send your child into the world without any way to communicate with someone in the event of an emergency.
Yes yes,this is the solution as we see more kids involved in conflict due to their phones and social media usage.A phone is the greatest defense for the murder of black youth.People managed to not get shot at just fine being lost without cellphones before cellphones.Unless of course there are trigger happy cacs in your neighborhood who are scared of blacks.
You dont know why this kids phone got taken away.You wont survive in this world without discipline,and having a mother who cares enough to instill some. That part of the story should not have stood out period!dont clean it up like thats not the first thing you came in here on a tirade about