NOTE: Some of the language used in this post is of a racial nature and some audiences may find it uncomfortable. 4.3.12
Whether he had a gun or not you can bring the white man that shoots up 9 black people alive and you can, save a white man that shoots up a whole movie theater. You can save the white man that kills a cop in target and other people. But you can’t bring black and brown kids alive with guns bullets are gonna run out and your highly armed. 13 years old and dead and can not be saved could have shot in his butt I am sure he would have stopped and dropped his gun. We all should go home at night. But you kill unarmed black like deers in the forest during hunting season.
That’s 13 years old Adam Toledo.
This week he was shot and killed by police in Chicago. The youngest person shot and killed by police so far this year. He was a middle school student.
A 13-year-old boy. Police claimed he had a gun and I want to say something about that.
I don’t know if he had one or not.
What I know is that the United States is the only nation in the world with more guns than people.
Most nations have only a tiny number of guns in circulation. Not here, though. We have nearly 400 million of them. A staggering number.
And it’s causing nearly 40,000 people a year to be shot and killed here. Some countries have less than 100 people shot and killed per year. We have 40,000.
I don’t know what we will see when this body camera footage is released, but I know it’s awful and that a mother lost her baby.