Just read that the mother had him while she was a junior in high school and was on the outstanding truancy list. She basically said, "I need to be here for my son whether school is in or not". Ok, cool. So why did you have 4 other damn kids? How much time did this mother spend with her first child? How often did she read to him? Where is his dad? Where does he get money for tattoos on his neck? What did he think his future was by being in a gang? Having a half sister who is a hoodrat, and knowing how they operate makes it hard to feel sorry for people who continue to make bad choices.
Man shut the fukk up.
Seem like you're a scholar in the Jim crow school of putting the dead black kid and his family on trial for his own murder.
From beyond the grave the burden is on the dead to prove that he was good enough to not deserve to be killed.
You ghouls will comb thru his school records and grades, his mom's records and life history, whether the dead said 'mother may I' enough at the dinner table, etc...all in some effort to justify why he was killed in cold blood.
Of course ZERO attention is paid to the actual trigger person who took a life when he's a cop. What about his grades? What about his mama's life history?
But that's 400 centuries of backwards system of anti-black race relations for ya. It never needs to make sense as long as the action is prejudicial against black people.
I support the vigil. Scrutiny should be placed on the appropriate person --- the killer. The deceased life should be celebrated. Stop trying to dehumanize a young man who is no longer here to defend himself.
Fukkin white people can kill someone and after arm themselves with a knife, extend it in the air in a stabbing position, beg the cop to shoot him all while continually threatening his life and chasing after him for hundreds of feet, and STILL live to tell about it. Not even a scratch on him: