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10-Year-Old Shot Dead on Thanksgiving—Allegedly by Dad
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this post was submitted on 25 Nov 2023
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Is this real? Did I just eat the onion?
That's important to figure out because it impacts the kind of charges they are going to press. There are different degrees of murder.
If the guy planned on killing his son, that's first degree murder. If he mistook the kid for a car thief that's second degree murder or depending on the exact circumstances maybe just manslaughter. And even with manslaughter the exact circumstances change it between voluntary and involuntary.
So let's not get our pitchforks out for the police doing their work right (for once).
So why does a potential car thief even be shot. Maybe let the police and later a judge handle thieves and not take justice into your own hands.
What if that car thief suddenly charges you after you hear the alarm and go outside to check on it.
I can see a situation where the kid was trying to scare his father as a prank. And unfortunately the father mistook it for a real threat.
I assume the person who shot the kid claims he felt threatened. It's probably not enough and even the police said so, but they still have a duty to look into it.
The police jumping to conclusions is a big issue in the US, so let's not criticize them when they follow proper protocol. In every civilized country in the world the police would investigate exactly what happened.
Maybe the person giving the interview/report should have used better words. But what's going to happen would still be the same.
that's a stupid and highly unrealistic car thief.
Maybe space aliens will come.
I find your deference to extrajudicial killing disturbing.