At least a jury in Wisconsin managed to get this one right. However, there are still plenty of boneheads who continue to comment and insinuate that 13 year old Darius was somehow involved in the stealing of the guns, even when by all accounts he was quite literally a good kid who had just moved into the neighborhood a month previous. Further he was AT SCHOOL the day of the break in, vouched for by all his teachers.
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A Milwaukee man who suspected his 13-year-old neighbor of breaking into his home and stealing weapons was convicted on Wednesday of fatally shooting the boy as the teen's mother looked on.
Spooner's daughter once brought home a kitten that he didn't want so he took it into the basement and killed it, Jackson said. Spooner also used to choke and beat his late wife, the doctor testified.
The violence shows Spooner occasionally loses the ability to control his anger — as during the moments when he shot Darius.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_1...teen-neighbor/
By the way, how does racism play into this? When a young, innocent black kid who was gunned down in cold blood bringing in his trash cans is lying dead in the street, the POLICE PUT HIS MOTHER WHO WITNESSED IT IN A SQUAD CAR FOR OVER TWO HOURS, THEN PROCEEDED TO TREAT DARIUS AS A SUSPECT INSTEAD OF A VICTIM AND RANSACKED HIS HOUSE, AND ARREST HIS OLDER BROTHER.
That is the structural and societal racism I am talking about dead_battery.