Reason not to 100% take away your kid’s phone as a punishment.

[Anonymous]

As the parent of a black teenage male, I find this story terrifying.

Equally terrifying is the fact that this guy was a firefighter. Do you really think he’d work as hard to save a black child as a white one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reason not to let racist morons have guns. JFC.

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Plus another several billion.

[Anonymous]

Dumb conclusion. Not so long ago, NOBODY had a phone, and people didn't accidentally get shot for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll wait for the authorities to release the tape before deciding who is racist.

My bet, though is that the teen (who most likely had confrontational behavior with his mom-thus the reason his phone was taken away in the first place) was not so neutral in his body language.

I'm waiting for an outrageous incident involving a black person as a victim, where nobody comes up with a reason why it was really all the black person's fault. I thought this might be it, but nope, here you are. So I'm still waiting.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://amp.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/black-teen-misses-bus-gets-shot-at-after-asking-for-directions-in-rochester-hills?__twitter_impression=true

Teen missed the bus. His mom had taken away his phone and was at work. Dad was deployed. He decided to walk to school but got a bit lost. He did what everyone on DCUM always argues their kid can do when their phone has been taken as a punishment: he rang a doorbell to ask for help/directions and was shot at. Luckily the overzealous homeowner missed and their Ring doorbelll camera recorded the entire encounter.

I’m all for taking away their phone as punishment, but not outside of the house. They get it when they leave for school and give it back when they return home. You can even install an app that turns the smartphone into having flip phone capabilities until you enter a master password to allow it to be a smartphone again.

This is a terrible and frightening story. But what did people do before cell phones? How on earth did we all survive?

I was never told to go up to random stranger's houses and knock on their door and I think that is not a wise thing to advise a kid to do. I would have asked a passerby for directions. I'm certainly NOT excusing the individual who tried to shoot this kid, I am only saying that going onto a stranger's property like that can be a risky proposition. It's better to ask a passerby or go into a store to ask for directions.

[Anonymous]

Something is off did the kid skip school and try to break in to a house

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something is off did the kid skip school and try to break in to a house

Yes. What is off is some yahoo with a gun shot at a kid. And it was all caught on video.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll wait for the authorities to release the tape before deciding who is racist.

My bet, though is that the teen (who most likely had confrontational behavior with his mom-thus the reason his phone was taken away in the first place) was not so neutral in his body language.

I'm waiting for an outrageous incident involving a black person as a victim, where nobody comes up with a reason why it was really all the black person's fault. I thought this might be it, but nope, here you are. So I'm still waiting.

+1

Don't let this person get to you, they are just stirring the pot. Clearly it was not the teenagers fault, as the doorbell shows and therefore the police have attested to (from what I understand)..

[Anonymous]

Kids have survived without phones in the past. The bigger question is how did he get lost on the way to school? I use to walk to school. Never heard of anyone getting lost on the way to school. The story seems to be sketchy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Something is off did the kid skip school and try to break in to a house

Yes. What is off is some yahoo with a gun shot at a kid. And it was all caught on video.

Remember the treyvon situation that kid attacked someone or the other one with the kid robbing the store

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dumb conclusion. Not so long ago, NOBODY had a phone, and people didn't accidentally get shot for it.

Accidently? What about this man trying to shoot this child was accidental???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’ll wait for the authorities to release the tape before deciding who is racist.

My bet, though is that the teen (who most likely had confrontational behavior with his mom-thus the reason his phone was taken away in the first place) was not so neutral in his body language.

I'm waiting for an outrageous incident involving a black person as a victim, where nobody comes up with a reason why it was really all the black person's fault. I thought this might be it, but nope, here you are. So I'm still waiting.

+1

Sadly, I think we will be waiting a long time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Something is off did the kid skip school and try to break in to a house

Yes. What is off is some yahoo with a gun shot at a kid. And it was all caught on video.

Remember the treyvon situation that kid attacked someone or the other one with the kid robbing the store

I'm not sure what the second situation you are referring to is but where is your proof that Trayvon Martin was was the one who began attacking George Zimmerman & not the other way around? There is no videotape of that incident that proves definitively what happened.

And what does either of the cases you mentioned have to do with this one in which there IS a videotape & the videotape shows that this kid was not shot at in self defense? Even if there was some way of proving that Trayvon Martin was the aggresor & at fault in his situation (&, no, GZ being found not guilty does not prove that; it means that the jury didn't think it was proven beyond a doubt that GZ was not merely acting in self defense, not that they thought it was proven beyond a reasonable doubt that he was), how would that refute the evidence seen in the video in this case? In your mind do the actions of one black boy represent the actions of all black boys? If not, why the hell would you even bring Trayvon or the other boy into a discus sion about a case they were in no way involved in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids have survived without phones in the past. The bigger question is how did he get lost on the way to school? I use to walk to school. Never heard of anyone getting lost on the way to school. The story seems to be sketchy.

The article says he usually rode the bus and on this day he missed it.

I can totally see how a teenager would think they remembered the bus route and then make a wrong turn.

Especially at 14! !4 year old boys still have a lot of maturation to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Something is off did the kid skip school and try to break in to a house

Yes, because people routinely ring doorbells to make their presence known before they rob houses