"I have seen those videos and let me just say that they are incredibly difficult to watch, particularly at the end," Lightfoot said at a news conference ahead of the release. (Video is included in this report)
It seems like this was filmed at 2:38 am on an early Monday morning. Call me a troglodyte, but what is a “child” doing running down an alley after bedtime on a “school night?” Probably would be excluded from evidence as irrelevant and immaterial or prejudicial but if parent(s) or a guardian were in the picture, what sort of discipline and supervision was in place? Again, irrelevant and immaterial — perhaps — but is it reasonable to expect a police officer chasing an unknown male down an alley at 0-dark-thirty to think of the runner as a child? The mob… Read more »
debtsor
5 years ago
People gonna see what they want to see. Pro-police supporters will see a perp running with a gun who suddenly stops, turns around and flicks his hands half-way up into the air without the gun he had just ditched moments earlier. Anti-police protestors will see a 13 year old child with his arms up at the very split second the police officer pops off a round into the kid’s chest and call it murder. It goes without say, I’m gonna side with the police on this one. This was clearly an armed conflict. Dropping the gun split seconds prior doesn’t… Read more »
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
It seems like this was filmed at 2:38 am on an early Monday morning. Call me a troglodyte, but what is a “child” doing running down an alley after bedtime on a “school night?” Probably would be excluded from evidence as irrelevant and immaterial or prejudicial but if parent(s) or a guardian were in the picture, what sort of discipline and supervision was in place? Again, irrelevant and immaterial — perhaps — but is it reasonable to expect a police officer chasing an unknown male down an alley at 0-dark-thirty to think of the runner as a child? The mob… Read more »
People gonna see what they want to see. Pro-police supporters will see a perp running with a gun who suddenly stops, turns around and flicks his hands half-way up into the air without the gun he had just ditched moments earlier. Anti-police protestors will see a 13 year old child with his arms up at the very split second the police officer pops off a round into the kid’s chest and call it murder. It goes without say, I’m gonna side with the police on this one. This was clearly an armed conflict. Dropping the gun split seconds prior doesn’t… Read more »
He was a banger and Lori is again pandering to the police killing black and brown people in order to be re-elected.