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The 'adults' in these young men's lives are detestable. “He’s 17,” his mother, 38-year-old Pamela Heyward, said. “The only thing I can vouch for is what happens inside this door. When he walks out that door, I don’t know what happens.” Your apathy created a murderer. If my teenage son was out at 3:00am I would go looking for him and plant my shoe where the sun don't shine.
“I’m a mother, and if he says he didn’t do it, I believe him,” she said. “People are going to say things, but it doesn’t bother me. I’ve been through this before.”
Clueless, in denial & no parenting skills. In the absence of parenting when according to the article "the street" takes over, so does our justice system need to take over. Why was he allowed bail after all these transgressions & how does a 17 yr old come up with 55k?
The 'adults' in these young men's lives are detestable. “He’s 17,” his mother, 38-year-old Pamela Heyward, said. “The only thing I can vouch for is what happens inside this door. When he walks out that door, I don’t know what happens.” Your apathy created a murderer. If my teenage son was out at 3:00am I would go looking for him and plant my shoe where the sun don't shine.
“I’m a mother, and if he says he didn’t do it, I believe him,” she said. “People are going to say things, but it doesn’t bother me. I’ve been through this before.”
What ever happened to holding their parents responsible for the actions of their minor kids...nothing good happens after midnight..
At some point, the cycle needs to break. We keep seeing this, over and over, but the answer isn't to keep wringing our hands after the fact. I can bet his momma wasn't raised right. Generation after generation of no one raising kids has led us to this point. No one cares until they kill white people.
m1a1mg - that's not true. At least not in my case. It has nothing to do with race.
Four people killed an innocent, defenseless man in the prime of his life, who was minding his own business, leaving work after a long night. This wasn't a drug deal gone bad, it wasn't a gang fight or other altercation. It wasn't an accident. They targeted him, to - as they said - "get their money".
It's that - to me - that's so disturbing. That "doing a lick" and taking a life in the process is no big deal, and there's no disgust or shame or upset on the part of his friends or family - they want to "Free Lul D" - they don't care that he killed an innocent person - in fact it seems from the comments his friends made they are proud of it. It's a notch in his belt.
I don't have the answers but I do think if we don't talk about it, it will only continue to get worse. Pretty soon you've got a Detroit or Baltimore on your hands.
What's the answer if these kids aren't growing up right? You can try and turn around the young ones with community effort, but what about the older ones already entrenched in this lifestyle? Some of the comments glorifying this guy came from teens - so it starts young.
Do you hold the judges accountable for releasing them back onto the street? Hold the parents accountable? Military school? A "Scared Straight" program?
His mom should get executed along with him. It'll a bonding moment.
I think the family that is affected and is suffering the loss should be allowed to "throw the switch" if not life w/no parole and hard labor
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