’Tragedy’: DC officials share new details on 13-year-old killed during carjacking | NBC4 Washington
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- After a 13-year-old was shot and killed during a carjacking in downtown D.C., District officials spoke about what happened and who the child was. Vernard Toney Jr. died Sunday after he was shot on D Street NW, in the Penn Quarter area, the previous night.
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Committed 9 prior crimes and was let go scott free. No wonder he continued, he thought that he was untouchable because he is a 'child'. Fortunately, for law abiding citizens, you can't carjack from the grave.
His accomplice is in police custody, he is 12.
That’s a fact. These liberals with their soft on crime policies are basically enabling these crimes to go on. These people have no fear of any consequences because they know there aren’t any.
Hear this !! .... as a white man, I have to go thru black neighborhoods more so than I care to, and I almost always get "spooked" by BLACK YOUTH !!! I am in Las Vegas and I always carry my PIECE, ready to grab in a second as I am driving thru those "ZONES", crazy !? no, just REALITY !!
9 crimes… including carjacking and robbery… in 6 WEEKS. His parents are not parenting. Or maybe they are, which makes it worse. Either way, they are to blame for this.
Exactly
The media is embarrassing.
The kids was human garbage.
As a Black man, I'm sick of this "he was a good kid" narrative. A good kid does NOT carjack someone. It's unfortunate that a life was lost, but he put himself in that situation.
I'm a black male too and I grew up with kids like him and they wreak havoc everywhere. You couldn't even just hang out at the playground without them starting something and f****** s*** up.
Hear this !! .... as a white man, I have to go thru black neighborhoods more so than I care to, and I almost always get "spooked" by BLACK YOUTH !!! I am in Las Vegas and I always carry my PIECE, ready to grab in a second as I am driving thru those "ZONES", crazy !? no, just REALITY !!
I'm black, I have no sympathy for that person. I call him a person because good boys don't do shit like that.
@@frenchpatou A a black male that grew up in the hood and was forced to live around people like this. The only thing I can say is that I apologize that people like this exists in our community.
How do we know that you're a black guy?
The kid is 13…..why is he out at night at 10 P.M. get your kids UNDER CONTROL……don’t have them if you can’t parent them !!
The other kid with him is now on jail, he is 12.
black 13
Idolizing the "Hood" culture.
Hear this !! .... as a white man, I have to go thru black neighborhoods more so than I care to, and I almost always get "spooked" by BLACK YOUTH !!! I am in Las Vegas and I always carry my PIECE, ready to grab in a second as I am driving thru those "ZONES", crazy !? no, just REALITY !!
...get your culture under control....... same characters most the time
No stranger to police? Anyone surprised?
vote red
Not surprised
@@RMX10001 Why? The most dangerous parts of CA (for example) are GOP-leaning areas like Bakersfield and Fresno. There are many more such examples.
@scottcharney1091 - nice deflection move but you should stick to the issue. This happened in a Demonrat controlled city.
@@scottcharney1091 because Democrats enable this rampant criminal activity and they care more about illegal immigrants than American citizens… they also think it’s normal for biological men to compete against biological women in sports, so yeah that’s enough for me to never vote blue again.
When you can fill a map with locations where a person has committed crimes... You aren't a good person.
That sounds like the person filling in the map is the bad person, not the person whose crimes are on the map!
And the principal sent home a letter trying to highlight him as a good kid lol. This is insane
@@douglaswalker2201The school was communicating with the other students. It wouldn't be their place (for the moment) to send a letter containing a cautionary tale.
Facts.
@scottcharney1091 That is a well stated reply. At some point this should be a cautionary tale but I suppose that will be left for another day.
I am sorry but I cannot feel sorry for a boy that put himself in danger and tried to rob another person. Why was a 13 year old out at 10 pm? The biggest issue with kids these days are the parents do not parent the children. If he was already in trouble for a prior car jacking, his butt should have been at home. I blame the parents and the boy. His actions caused his own death.
It's not like 60's-90s, when we had structure and a curfew. We knew before the street lights came on, to be inside the house.
A lot of kids are not being raised right or at all.
@@mlynettepinky595 Youth crime was actually worse back then (see Kevin Drum's work). That's definitely true for DC; that time period includes the Crack Wars!
I’m sure he didn’t even wash his behind often or properly. What the hell was his little arse doing acting gangsta?! Then to already have a criminal history? Damn his parents and family failed him. No father?
@@scottcharney1091especially the 80’-90’s 😂😂
@@Yah-Yah733 True! The peak occurred around 1990. What's so funny?
"Smart and funny" = violent and thuggish
100%. I'm tired of these lies from the media and the enablers in these thugs' lives!
This principal is a peice of you know what GARBAGE!
A bully who would laugh while bullying other kids.
TRANSLATION: "smart-assed and thought he was cute/funny/cool"
If you play the thug, you get the thug ending.
So, he was a "smart, funny, and talented" kid who was also a robber, car-thief, and criminal...Does that mean we are suppose to love him and feel sorry for him, or is it okay to think the kid was a piece of sh*t that probably would've started killing people with the poor choices he was making. I wish the media would just state facts (he tried to carjack somebody and got killed) and stop creating narratives (he was a great kid and everybody loved him!)
Amen
JUSTICE!
And now the parents who never care about their boy blame the man who had to defend himself
They need to arrest his parents like yesterday
Vernard is a bloody criminal.
He wants to play gangster. Well he got gun down like a gangster.
You mean parent because I bet you it's only one.
@@USArmyVet_BillsMafiaJediabsolutely
Hear this !! .... as a white man, I have to go thru black neighborhoods more so than I care to, and I almost always get "spooked" by BLACK YOUTH !!! I am in Las Vegas and I always carry my PIECE, ready to grab in a second as I am driving thru those "ZONES", crazy !? no, just REALITY !!
The media never interviews class room teachers of students like this. I’m a retired, inner city (South Bronx, NY) middle school teacher and I had a hundred or more students like this. I guarantee he was a nightmare in the class room. Disruptive, disrespectful and even dangerous. The media also never shows current photographs of these youth criminals, and I’ll bet this is the case here.
The next day my guess is that his teachers collectively sighed in relief at the news.
You are absolutely right and they do that to further this narrative that black and brown people are innocently minding their business while being killed by cops.
My dad taught in the Bronx too, I remember going to his school and seeing how they acted. I think I'm his time there around 3-5 students have been killed doing similar stuff like this. Then the school does a little memorial, but the kid was barely there. The argument usually being racism the schools are racist and under funded the kids don't learn, but most schools in NYC are public, they all receive the same funding, and we all across the state, take the regents exam. You know just as well as I do what that is. And people wanna argue racism. If you don't go to school you don't learn, you don't learn your can't find work, can't find work you steal, this is a teen, idk why hes out at 10pm trying to carjack people, good questions for his parents. You know how those parent teacher conferences go, you know when you try and tell the parent their kid doesn't do homework and is disruptive in class, parents don't believe you they believe their angelic son. Until he doesn't pass then they blame the teacher. I say, give the parents a simple test, same average test the students take and see how the parents do. If the kids can't do it, and the parents don't help, now we have an idea as to why the kid died. The beauty and curse of having a parent who was a teacher, I could never say it's the teachers fault. My dad would check my bag for homework if he had to, he befriended most of my teachers, shit I've had teachers offer to drive me home because they were doing lesson planning with my dad, I was in white plains, he was in Bronx.
Hear this !! .... as a white man, I have to go thru black neighborhoods more so than I care to, and I almost always get "spooked" by BLACK YOUTH !!! I am in Las Vegas and I always carry my PIECE, ready to grab in a second as I am driving thru those "ZONES", crazy !? no, just REALITY !!
🤣I can IMAGINE, smdh.
Not even kidding when I say; thank you for your service.
So if this 13 year old was so smart can someone , anyone tell why was this so call smart kid out on these streets robbing and carjacking folks. Smart kid don’t do things like that.His crimes caught up with him and he tried to take from the rite one this time. It is what it is. I really don’t feel sorry for this kid
@@jon8463
His ‘talent’ was in carjackings.
@@jon8463high school does not have 13yr olds unless they’re geniuses 🙄
Perhaps the people saying that the kid was smart / funny arrived at this assessment by comparing him to the other kids in the school.
You can be smart, But lack of wisdom. We have a lot of smart people today, Who can do anything in a computer, But can not choose a ripe avocado, Can choose a fresh vegetable or fish, Who are lack of sense of awareness. They are even incapable of distinguish when they're in danger zones.
you can hear how arrogant he was in that anecdote. he didn't go to school to learn. he went to school to socialize. that kind of kid would be so disruptive and every teacher's annoyance.
well i guess he won't be carjacking anyone else.
He wasnt a victim! He was a criminal.
Defund the Media! Stop this portaying of criminals as misunderstood good guys.
Feral children.
Give them white females to calm them down.
Literally what Heinlein warned us about in Starship Troopers.
How horrifying...to have to shoot a kid. Prayers for the officer.
Note that his accomplice is 12 and now in custody. Not " horrifying " at all when one of these perps could have shot the driver.
Just a young punk that would never be rehabilitated. He proved that he was just a thief!
Imagine what he would have been like as an adult.
That cop would have been dead these kids don't care about human life .
prayer for the officer? lies by these cowards, how easy it is to shoot someone one and get away with shooting and killing a young boy, he is trained, someone not reaching in his pocket for a gun, he would of had the gun in his hand.
I always love the cookie cutter response of "he was a good kid". Yet there are actual good kids out there and I never see them get any recognition. I went to school with kids like this who were absolute menaces, and everyone would always say "deep down their good kids", years later and most of them are now in prison or on drugs that good kid mentality definitely help them with life.
Yup, the reality is these kids don't attend school, often act up in class and don't do the schoolwork. Show me the grades and test scores, and I'll see math and reading far below the level at the age group. Teachers just pass them along for somebody else because children aren't held accountable.
Yep. The principal’s statement was the juvenile version of ‘He was an active member of the community trying to turn his life around.’
My parents used to always say “ you don’t get an award for being good. Sometimes you don’t even get recognized. A good life is the reward of good people.”
The opposite applies. Good kids are doing good things. Deep down, parents are absent and delusional about who their kids are. And the refusal to deal with that reality is what cultivates this.
Nope. Not in prison. Walking the streets free as birds.
Last year I was having coffee with a third grade teacher and she mentioned that three of her former students, all now 18, had been shot dead in separate incidents that month. I asked her if there were signs in third grade that they'd end like this. "The only surprise is it took so long," she said.
The principal forgot to mention that he also loved to terrorize people by carjacking them. His parents and the court system failed him
😂they put thumbnails of his innocent pics like we are suppose to care about a criminal 😂this is to funny
Saved many future victims.
Got what he asked for. Had a history too? This is what happens when you dont learn your lesson...
What would they charge the man with? Did self defense become a crime?
Nothing; it's just that it's always necessary to investigate a fatal shooting of any sort.
@@scottcharney1091 you don’t want t be in this situation in any blue state
@@derrickanthony4You don't want to be in this situation anywhere. Self-defense is a legally recognized principle in every state in the union.
With Democrats in charge? Yes.
@@ricksomething Democrats are in charge of DC. Is he facing any criminal charges?
When society ignores crime and does not lock anyone up… children assume it’s ok to steal and assault. His parents knew his pattern….they may think crime is acceptable also. Crime will increase if it is ignored. People who say this was a really great guy….also think crime is ok. What’s the big deal, it’s just theft.
Exactly 🙄
9 armed criminal investigations at age 12? and he gets a sob story from his school?
The school was communicating to his peers. That's the tone they had to take, under the circumstances.
😂😂like they care
@@scottcharney1091are u the principal of this school because u all up in every one’s comments explaining the same thing! ATP ppl don’t care about bad ass kids
@@Yah-Yah733 I'm almost afraid to ask, but what are "ass kids?" (I joke, I joke. Hyphens are important.)
🤣🤣🤣 u got me! I thought I said it backwards, but yes! Those damn BEBE KIDS
I was 13 in 1975, in The Bronx , my friends and I never seriously considered doing anything close to what these kids do now.
Blacks love to destroy communities
Hear this !! .... as a white man, I have to go thru black neighborhoods more so than I care to, and I almost always get "spooked" by BLACK YOUTH !!! I am in Las Vegas and I always carry my PIECE, ready to grab in a second as I am driving thru those "ZONES", crazy !? no, just REALITY !!
Ok, boomer.
Could not feel sorry in this instance!
Charge his parents or parent for the crime.
Clearly it’s just parent.. single mom I’m sure
And his principal as well he claims he was a smart and talented student and that's a lot of bull to say the least.
My sympathies for the victim of the attempted carjacking... he didn't know these criminals brought a finger to a gunfight.
This "child" was a predator not an innocent teenager.
That kid was nothing but a liability for his mother. I'm sure it must hurt her to learn that her child has died, but at least on some level, she can be at peace knowing that he'll no longer be a burden to her.
He was a good boy. He wanted to be a Doctor when he grew up.
he wanted to be the president!
mic drop 😂
What a wonderful child. Smart and funny and talented said the Principal of his school. What a loss to society. I'm sure he was going to be a doctor or someone to win the Nobel Prize. What? Nine car jacking in the last 6 months? Nah, no way. I'm sure that was not him. I'm sure his parents raise him well and proper to be a good student. I'm sure his teachers and friends will say he was an angel.
POS was already a career criminal at the age of 12. Now his mom is wondering how or why this happened, not surprised at all to hear that familiar refrain. How soon before she files a civil lawsuit?
It’s BS. This little monster robbed and or carjacked a dozen people before someone ended up freeing society from this young career criminal.
Can you imagine the destruction that he was gonna cause between the ages of 13 and 30?
The local media and school, try’s to make the kid sound like a normal 12 year old. “He was a good kid” “he liked to hang out and shoot basketball with his friends.” Well those kids were robbing too. Because as much robbing this little punk did, his buddies had to be with him for that. Didn’t have time for anything else.
he liked to play baskeball and hang out with his friends, apparently he liked car jacking with his friend too...
So he's done 9 prior car jackings, and got shot on his 10th attempted car jacking (that we know of), was known to be violent and causing trouble. So where's the "tragedy" that he got shot?
I like how the news always shows pictures of these guys looking all innocent, saying how he made his friends laugh, how much laughing did his victims do? How about showing pictures of him from his social media or phone when he's holding a gun and flashing gang signs?
B+LM
Notice how they frame the headline to make it sound like the person that did it is actually the victim. He wasn't hit by the escaping car. He wasnt hit by a stray bullet.
He COMMITTED it.
He'd been robbing and terrorizing people before and they released him to continue to terrorize the public. 🙄
There should be a curfew for these amazing young people!!!
I'm sure he won't carjacking a car again. I hope his mom is not seeking to sue the federal officer who killed his son. I have a strong feeling that kid raised by a single mother who couldn't decipline her child.
I know a man who raised two sons.
One son became a high ranking military officer. The other son became a homeless junkie.
Each person choose their own path in life.
wait till rev al finds out
She couldn't even keep her legs crossed.
@@robertslugg8361Do you know his mother's sexual history? I mean the kid had it coming but why castigate his mama with such little info? The bigger question is where was his daddy because his mom was probably doing her best if she was raising him solo.
So the principal calls him smart and funny. Obviously both parents and the school failed him. His family better not even think about suing. 9 crimes in a few weeks?
He won’t be doing no more crimes. Charge his mom because we know he got 10 siblings already doing this ish
IF U PLAY STUPID GAMES U WIN STUPID PRIZES 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
Msm is disgusting. "No stranger to police" at 13 tells me everything i need to know.
Lol trying to make this thug look like a good boy great job parents or should i say mother
Yeah, because you know the dad isn't around, which is his fault.
The school made a statement to the other students. I can understand why they took that tone.
@@scottcharney1091I get it but it would’ve been better if they had the officers to come to the school and let the kids know! U FCK AROUND AND FIND OUT!! NOW that Would’ve been away to scare the shit out of those kids 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
The kid was working on his game big time.
I don't feel bad for the kid
Late at night
Walking around with a friend
One of them had the brilliant idea to try and carjack someone
Ask his parents if they raised him to steal cars, ask them if they raised him to possibly carry a gun, ask them if they think at 10pm in dangerous area, is it good for a 13 year old to be walking around? Who was the other friend he was hanging with that night? If they don't know then ask what they do know about their son and this situation. If they say they know nothing then their either bad parents or don't pay attention. His parents can be mad at police and this man all they want, but he didn't pull up to the kids walking, draw his gun and shoot. He didn't do a drive-by, he was sitting, in his own car, waiting to work. Your son and his friend approached his car and demanded he got out. Your son died because of his own stupidity. He wanted to go for a joy ride in someone else's car because he thought he'd be cool, he spent too much time playing GTA. Shit I remember when vice city came out and all the police departments said it's gonna cause people to get worse, and we all thought noooo. Now look, rampant drug use, high speed chases, almost every night somewhere there's a young kid stealing someone else's car, and sometimes those kids get shot, run over, car accidents where's they are injured. There was a story about 3 girls who stole a car and tried to outrun the cops, crashed through a fence into a lake, couldn't escape the car because water pressure was too great and they drowned. Families tried to sue the police. But then again your kids bodies are found in a lake, in a car you, and your family, and the other families don't own, why are your kids in this car? Luckily the judge threw out the case because it's complete bullshit. We all have to suffer the consequences of our actions, sometimes those consequences are life ending. Use your head, don't steal cars.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 This is the best comment I’ve read so far!! His parents didn’t give a damn what he was doing! Then the news has the nerve to show him as this innocent child who was funny! Was the school not notified of his arrest? After the 50-11 times he was locked up the parents should have been arrested too! Hell with those petty ass fines! Hold them accountable and the judicial system for keep letting these heathens out of jail! I’m so sick of it 😤😤🤬🤬
@@Yah-Yah733 right he was 13 and had 9 prior arrests, 9 before he's even in 8th grade. It's not racism it's because he was a little shit. But to ask his parents these questions means people are gonna say your victim blaming. But he wasn't the victim, he was the perpetrator. Him getting shot yea victim of that but it's because he attempted to commit a crime, which got him killed. I bet the kid has prior run ins at school with principal for fighting, or causing a disturbance. His 9 priors include carjacking, stolen cars and armed robbery. All things good 13 year old boys. I hate that everyone tries to sugar coat it and say he was a good kid. They did the same with George Floyd. 46 prior arrests, multiple for drug possession and sales including heroin cocaine and fentanyl. But his family said he found Jesus, I can say that too, doesn't mean jack shit. Oh can't forget the holding a pregnant woman at gunpoint while pointing the gun in her belly. A year to the date of his death, while news cameras there at the site a shooting happened 🤦. And then a mural made of him, was struck by lighting taking down part of the wall. Like I'm not religious but shit even I have to say devine intervention. There's no accountability anymore. And with government not supporting law enforcement, less cops. Less cops means more crime as we're seeing especially in blue states. Officers retiring, transferring or quiting, and the recruitment level is horrible. So crime is gonna go on the rise. But the news doesn't care it's rating for them and things to talk about. The news isn't about giving facts of cases or anything anymore, it's about being first to report..doesn't matter if their 💯 wrong as long as they say it first, then with all the other bullshit they push it can get lost
@@CPLPantazonisI don’t anyone will call this victim blaming because the officer was the victim first! Sorry but not sorry 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️
the media's mantra: "IF IT BLEEDS, IT LEADS" (opening the news as the Lead story, that is) @@CPLPantazonis
Say it louder for the people in the back!!!!!!
Stealing cars at 13. Oh my God. He didn’t have a chance.
That's his mother and father fault. ACCOUNTABILITY and RESPONSIBILITY for ones ACTIONS.
Actually he started stealing cars at 12 years of age, or at least that's when he first got caught.
@@sexytrinny52dad is probably missing
@@Baraka_Obama_
I know a man who raised two sons.
One son became a high ranking military officer.
The other son became a homeless junkie.
Each person choose their own path in life.
"Liked to play basketball in his free time." Bruh I think it's quite clear what he really did during his free time.
The fact he was arrested 9x prior starting at 12 for armed robbery and carjacking should tell you the kind of kid he is. The school tries to kiss ass "oh he was a smart kid" was he? Is carjacking people a smart thing to do? Made a stupid decision? Yes him and a lot of other people, maybe that's why carjacking is illegal🤷. He'd jokingly say he's the principal? Considering what we now know, that seems like he's being cocky, like no matter what he does to cause problems he's always gonna be allowed back. If your a parent, of a 12-13 year old, who's been arrested 9x, you need to PARENT YOUR FUCKING KID. Well I mean you can't now but🤷, look hopefully if he has siblings or cousins, they take away from this, don't carjack people, same with his classmates. Don't tip toe around the issue. It's not race it's not class he's 13 he can't work, the driver didn't do a drive-by, he was sitting waiting in his car.
Either someone is lying or he has a twin. How can a kid be considered smart and comedic but does dumb sh*% like this. If it was a freak incident…ok. However this was his MO🤷🏿♀️🤬
I bet the mom aunts and uncles will wear air brushed t-shirts and blame everyone but the kid and family
I bet the cop thought he was smart funny and talented also.
The only tragedy is this news station putting in overtime working to change the public perception of the character of the criminal.
The criminal kids that I grew up with were very popular among the school administration. They tend to gravitate towards the "troubled" teens. The "good" child criminals know how to play that card with adults.
Born to be a recidivist
827 carjackings this year alone??
I was a 13 year old around guns. Hunted my whole life. I wasnt a recipe for disaster. I never felt the need to car jack someone. Heck, i was playing gta Vice City. And still didn't commit these crimes
What do you propose caused the difference in behavior?
Where's the compassion for the Federal Officer??
Without Dads this group is in big trouble
He enjoyed reciting rap lyrics.
Biased media !!! Y would charges be filled against the officer/law abiding person defending themselves??
It's always necessary to investigate a fatal shooting of any sort.
@@Heavenswitnessbecause that is a Democrat state
@@Heavenswitness The cop was also black. Black on black doesn't quite carry the same penalty.
I can hear the collective sigh of relief 3,000 miles away.
12 and the carjacking/ criminal behavior on a big map/ area,
Show’s a criminal mind.
It starts in the home
Why was he out at that hour?
The school principal just lied concerning the character of the 13 year old. I don’t know why blacks always start lying when something negative happens in our communities.
The mother of the 13 year should have served his time in prison. What has happened to the roles played by black men in society? Black female mayor, police chief, city commissioners, school principal this demographic shift might explain why our communities are so broken. I am not saying women shouldn’t lead, but why the agenda to remove black men.
Young men need to have fathers in their homes and see men in leadership roles in society in order to view the world differently.
Wow...I thought I was the only person that noticed that too. Where are the real men
Very sad his life had to end that way but if he thought he could keep doing it without any consequences he was sadly mistaken and came across the wrong person. We have to do something about these kids that are completely lost... smh
Agreed. Each time he was caught he was slapped on the wrist and returned to his mother, who obviously had no control over this kid. If the court system had done what they were supposed to do, the kid may have at least had a better chance to wake up and straighten out. Too bad for him.
Yeah, it’s called arresting the parents. The only way to stop it is to make the parents take responsibility for their kids.
It’s not going to happen, because we have seen they won’t even take responsibility for themselves.
@@jimmymorris5321I disagree. I grew up with two people who were raised in the same single parent home by the same woman, and they had the same bio father.. One is a business owner now, and the other did 15 years in federal prison. Sometimes parents really are doing their best, and the kids just go astray. Saying it's always the parents fault is too black and white.. Sometimes kids just make bad choices despite good parenting.
Guns, car jacking, 13 yr olds…recipe for disaster?!?!….wtf are you talking about…..there was no gun. Put the blame on bad parenting. 1:10 🤦🏾♂️
She is low key blaming the officer that was car jacked for shooting / defending him self.
He acted like he had a gun
"He was a gud bwoy." As usual. 🙄
Poster boy. Dreamed about lawyer job, blah,blah...
They didn't claim that he was good.
@@scottcharney1091No, just "smart, funny, & talented", among with a sports team pic & "tragedy" in the title. 🤔
@@RadAngelDMV Ok, but that doesn't mean that he was good. I realize that the depiction here doesn't make him look at all scary!
Black fatherless kid. Blame the mother for sure. You know there was no dad in the picture.
Yea BW impregnate themselves. Just like y'all pappy that ABANDONED the family but is the father to another man's children. Or his lock up for trying to make easy $$$ instead of getting a 9 to 5. Or maybe his sleeping six feet deep because some of y'all only way to prove your MANHOOD is with the Pow Pow. Once again no RESPONSIBILITY or ACCOUNTABILITY for BM ACTIONS.
Why abortion should be legal in the black community.
This is the youngest picture the media could find. He was about 7 or 8 years old in this photograph. Probably on his way to church to be an alter boi, after getting up at 5:00 a.m. to study calculus
RIP young man, sorry your parents failed you, if any.
There’s a difference between being funny and being a class clown. They are NOT the same thing.
Kid was arrested 9 times and released that’s madness where were his parents wtf
The "tragedy" is that the other one survived.
I won’t take any news agency seriously when they say someone was a good kid and show innocent pictures of them. Especially if the picture is not dated. Show his prior mug shots. Also sweet innocent looking kids can be evil, even if they look about 8 or 10 years old in the published photos.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Kid committed nine crimes before this - the system failed him, his teachers failed him and his parents failed him. When he needed guidance where were his teachers and his parents? Why didn't the juvenile court system do something to help him? I truly feel badly for the officer - he's going to have to live with this every day....and he shouldn't have had to do what he did, but he only had a split second to make that call.....shame on the people who let this kid down.
And with his life ended, innocent lives were saved.
Who is mom and dad??
13 years ago a black guy was humping and pumping a black woman with his eyes closed and malt liquor sweat steaming up car windows
Put these children in Jail for a while. They learn nothing by just letting them go.
I really don’t care if he is 12 he was not a nice kid. 9 crimes in 6 weeks. 🤷♂️
If he was a good kid then why was he out at 10 pm stealing cars at 13? Why did he commit 9 crimes before this? Why is the media trying to blame the cop or guns?
Where was this kid's parents? Why was he arrested 9 times before this and let go?
@0:20 Game Over! 😢
The parents should be charged.
So he committed 12 car thefts / car jackings when he was 12 years old, and a D.C. Juvenile Court Judge sent him back to the very home and very mother who produced his criminality. Way to go Judge, he was not surprisingly killed within the next year, committing the very same crime. Did you really expect a different result?
What does she mean that it was unfortunate that this happened? Now we have one less 12 year old armed robber to turn into, God only knows what kind of, even more violent adult thug. Where was Mom and Dad while all this was goin' on? Does anybody really think they were ever going to get this kid turned around? Were they maybe even sharing in the profits of his crimes. That happen sometimes, ya know. Maybe we'll get lucky and his partner will be killed before he kills someone. At the very least he should be charged with Felony Murder.
They hate it when the public and LEO'S fight back against black criminality. Look how they vilified Andrew Zimmerman when he defended himself against Trevon Martin
smart? i think not! where was his mom??? but i bet she crying now when its parents faults he out on streets at 10.00 at night.
More lives were saved than were taken
9x carjacking at 12, I can’t imagine by 30.
Wouldn’t make it to 30….
These kids are treating it like it's a game and you get bragging points at school when you talk about it. This is the justice systems fault. 13 years old and already well known to the police? It's not the fault of the police, it's the court system that is failing. If he had been in juvenile detention, he would still be alive.
arrest the parents
This is whats celebrated in the hood.
Thirteen years old and already a career criminal.
The parents should be arrested and charged, and the principal of the school, who lavished great praise on this criminal, should be fired as she has not a clue about the thugs in her presence, and clearly is a dangerous influence on children.
What tragedy? Teen play the game of being a thug and lost.
DC is one of many, many places that has eliminated cash bail. Very few kids understand the difference between jail (where you wait to have your trial if you can't make bail or the judge says you are too dangerous to let out) vs prison (where you go if you are found guilty). To them, if you don't go to jail, then there won't be any real consequence for what you did. I very much believe that (1) this young man should be in juvenile hall awaiting a trial , (2) should get a meaningful prison sentence of 10-15 years if found guilty, (3) mentoring and counseling. Items 2 and 3 are not mutually exclusive. The fact is that he will never get ANY of these things because he acted like he had a gun, so he was treated like he had a gun, and now he gets a funeral. Yes, it makes me sad and I think it's an awful tragedy. But it's one he could have avoided if he had decided to do something other than to front like he's a baddie with a gun.
Live by the sword you die by the sword. Unbelievable human waist of a child his parents must be so proud. My son made it to 50 years old and even went to Catholic school.he knew I didn't play games, and I worked. My Naval husband was gone often, and my son knew the assignment wasn't about to let a child defy my curfews.
Not a tragedy. This was completely avoidable. He was a one-teen crime wave.
Parents need to start being charged, that child should have been home.