Ralph Yarl: Sweet, young teen shot trying to pick up siblings

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Anonymous wrote:85 year old charged with 2 felony counts and there's a warrant for his arrest. Prosecutors also say there was clearly a racial element to this but didn't charge a hate crime bc in Mo. that carries a lower penalty than his current charges.

85?? Watch now we're gonna get the - oh but he's so old he'll miss out on time with his grandkids blah blah.


My first thought is that because he is so old, they ought to look back and see if he's responsible for any other racial incidents.
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Anonymous wrote:This guy isn't going to serve any time. He's gonna play the old, limited capacity card and people there are going to believe it.

And just because he's home recovering, doesn't mean that he doesn't have significant injuries which may require lengthy rehabilitation, possible lifetime pain and keep him from playing his instrument. There's a ton of real estate between critical condition and just fine.


Was he ever actually in critical condition? I read that he got up and walked to several houses seeking help after getting shot. I suspect the bullets clipped him only. Which is a relief.
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Anonymous wrote:This guy isn't going to serve any time. He's gonna play the old, limited capacity card and people there are going to believe it.

And just because he's home recovering, doesn't mean that he doesn't have significant injuries which may require lengthy rehabilitation, possible lifetime pain and keep him from playing his instrument. There's a ton of real estate between critical condition and just fine.


Was he ever actually in critical condition? I read that he got up and walked to several houses seeking help after getting shot. I suspect the bullets clipped him only. Which is a relief.


Hopefully it just clipped him. But honestly even if his physical injuries aren’t “that bad”, can you even imagine what this poor young man went through? I’d be scarred for life. I hope he can get all the mental health counseling he needs, I don’t think I could ever recover from seeing just how despicable humans can be.
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Anonymous wrote:This guy isn't going to serve any time. He's gonna play the old, limited capacity card and people there are going to believe it.

And just because he's home recovering, doesn't mean that he doesn't have significant injuries which may require lengthy rehabilitation, possible lifetime pain and keep him from playing his instrument. There's a ton of real estate between critical condition and just fine.


Was he ever actually in critical condition? I read that he got up and walked to several houses seeking help after getting shot. I suspect the bullets clipped him only. Which is a relief.


Yes, the media noted he was initially in critical condition. Here is just one source that says that.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/ralph-yarl-released-hospital-kansas-city-shooting-b2321398.html

Anonymous
How much does anyone want to bet that the shooter's main form of "news" is Fox News with its constant fear porn programming about "urban" (read black) crime in our cities and brown people coming over our border? It is a form of propaganda, and something needs to be done about it. Creating an alternate reality where peoples' home or person could at any moment be attacked and where guns are needed personal protection is very dangerous and leads to situations such as these.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:As a Black mom to Black sons, I just…can’t anymore.

I guess now we’ll all have to debate how aggressively the band nerd rang the doorbell.

Guess I’ll add to PLEASE make sure they are at the right house to “the list”.


If I had black sons, no offense, but I would get the the heck out of this country. They would have more of a chance of reaching adulthood easier in anywhere but here. Try Mexico or just anywhere. Shame it is a crime to be black and have black kids.
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Anonymous wrote:As a Black mom to Black sons, I just…can’t anymore.

I guess now we’ll all have to debate how aggressively the band nerd rang the doorbell.

Guess I’ll add to PLEASE make sure they are at the right house to “the list”.


If I had black sons, no offense, but I would get the the heck out of this country. They would have more of a chance of reaching adulthood easier in anywhere but here. Try Mexico or just anywhere. Shame it is a crime to be black and have black kids.
I don't think that's true at all. I'd get the heck out of the south, though!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:America has never been more racist than it is right now.



Omg utterly false. You didn’t grow up in and 40s, 50s or 60s here. Try a foreign country. We are light years on racism compared to some involved in the slave trade
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:A lot of emotions but very little information so far.

I reserve all judgement until more is known.


Of course you do because you live here in a Maryland bubble. No one is capping your white child/children for knocking on the wrong door. Sit down and shut up!
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Anonymous wrote:A lot of emotions but very little information so far.

I reserve all judgement until more is known.


Wtf. Why? The person reacted out of fear and shot this poor innocent kid! The perpetrator had choices. He could have NOT opened the door! When strangers knock on my door, I often don’t open it.

The LAST thing I would ever do, is pull out a gun and shoot them, for godsakes. We know this child was innocent. And now his life has been taken. I hope the person who shot him rots in jail.


Maybe it'll transpire that the kid was dealing drugs and it was a deal that went south.

Who knows. There's very little information. More will come out in due time. Maybe the allegation is right. Or maybe there's a lot more to it than we are being told for now. There have been plenty of instances when something that initially seemed like a horrible tragedy turned out to be much murkier once more information was released.

That's why I reserve all judgement until more is known and don't resort to knee jerk emotional reaction.


The shooter is in his 80s so, no, I don't think it was a "drug deal that went south."
Potential dementia


80+ yr old white guy with a gun? I'm guessing he watches Fox 24-7, sees reports of the crimes in Chicago, DC, etc. being perpetrated by black youth and hence ALL black youth EVERYWHERE are out to loot Walmart - or loot his home. Doesn't have the critical thinking to realize that one guy alone ringing is doorbell isn't there to rob, he's more likely there to sell solar panels or something. And in any event if you're one of those people who doesn't open the door to people you don't know, couldn't yell thru the door to ask what the kid wanted/tell him he had the wrong address??


u would say that you are the one lacking critical thinking skills. you seriously lumping all 80 year old white men together. I know a few and nine of them are anything close to what you describe. but here is your hypocritical self blaming old men for generalizing when you are here sou g the exact same thing.


Oh please, spare us. Don’t play dumb.

You know it’s always a white dude in these type situations. Always.
Anonymous
Ugh...looks like a similar incident happened over the weekend in upstate NY. A car with four young people looking for a friend's home went up the wrong driveway, and the homeowner came out and fired two shots--one killed a young woman in the car. The shooter (older guy) and the victim (young woman) were white in this case. But still... These guys with guns act like they're living out on a remote homestead in the 1800s Wild West.

https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/20-year-old-woman-killed-in-shooting-hebron-man-charged-with-murder-kaylin-gillis-kevin-monahan-salem
Anonymous

Would love to GTH out of fascistopia, but where are we going to go? Who is going to take us? Black OR white?
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Felony charges are being brought against the shooter. The prosecutor says third does appear to be a racial component. He will be held on a $200,000 bond.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/17/us/kansas-city-teen-shot-wrong-house/index.html


Good. Hang him high!
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Ugh...looks like a similar incident happened over the weekend in upstate NY. A car with four young people looking for a friend's home went up the wrong driveway, and the homeowner came out and fired two shots--one killed a young woman in the car. The shooter (older guy) and the victim (young woman) were white in this case. But still... These guys with guns act like they're living out on a remote homestead in the 1800s Wild West.

https://cbs6albany.com/news/local/20-year-old-woman-killed-in-shooting-hebron-man-charged-with-murder-kaylin-gillis-kevin-monahan-salem


I don't think NY is a stand your ground state.
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