You can hate what's going on in Chicago without shitting on a kid who just died. I don't know how you can look at messages you've written where you laugh over the corpse of a dead child and still call yourself a man. You're a slug at that point, who's completely given himself over to whatever retarded online persona you're projecting.
Did I call the kid a nigger? A monkey? Nope. I did not and would not do so.
Look, I understand why people feel bad while viewing the photo and video. I do not celebrate his death but I do not feel bad either. People have pointed out that this was a questionable shoot. I absolutely agree with them. Additionally, I can put myself in the shoes of that officer and understand given the conditions of that night, the call, and the suspect pulling a gun (to dispose of) how this shooting occurred.
I am not going to call myself the John Wick of guns but I have taken Gun 250 from Gun Site and understand the split second reaction needed when presented with a threat at night. But its not just my opinion that you should believe. Here is a laboratory controlled
test on how soon an officer will stop shooting once presented with the stimuli.
In a report summarizing the research, Force Science Institute noted, “If an officer were to take [merely] 0.56 seconds to react to a stop-shooting signal, three to four [extra] rounds could be fired by the officer as an automatic sequence after the signal to stop had already occurred.
We see in the video and previous posts that the officer had about one second before the gun was pulled and the hands went up. The data already suggests it takes more that half a second to stop shooting when they realize the target is not a threat. With all the factors of the night, I just cannot bring myself to blame the officer or say the shooting was unjustified.
Perhaps that is my curse. That I am able to set aside emotions and come to a logical conclusion faster than most people. In fact, that is one of my personalities traits. I have a since lapsed EMT certification and have been responsible for the deaths of a few people due to PowerPoint presentations I made. In both fields, I excelled because I am able to put emotions to the side. Such it is with this incident.
I am not you. I cannot understand what you feel. But I ask that you remain objective. While this was a child, his social media history and his IRL actions do belie such innocence's. The child made the conscious choice to join a gang, embrace thug culture, associate himself with felons, be in possession of firearm illegally. and flee from cops.
The hard truth is that this child would have held you up at gunpoint if he was given the chance.
I understand that minors do stupid things and I would even oppose his execution if he killed you in a botched robbery. That is because I acknowledge that the brains of minors are underdeveloped.
But, that was not the case in this incident. The kid pulled a gun hoping to ditch it. The officer saw it and reacted within a split second. Again, all the evidence I know tells me this was a reasonable outcome given the circumstances.
Look, if you still think I am a monster and/or an asshole fine. I could have posted the generic, This is not a grave but the future you choose" meme but I think the dead kid deserved more than that. This might be my attempt at empathy as legitimately cannot bring myself to feel sorrow for his death.