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How the hell does anyone at this point have no idea what was going to transpire?
~~Yeah, 12 year old should know that calling 911 for help is literally murder! /s
He's a literal child and was scared. He called for help. It's gross to blame him or even imply he should know calling for help on the same line you call for fire and ambulances will cause an attempted murder.~~
ETA: I don't know where I came up with him being 12, but the point about calling for help and the murder hobos being the same line as the helpers still stands. Blaming a 19 year old for calling 911 because the cops decided to try to murder someone is still gross.
I've been teaching my kids to not call the police their entire lives. We don't watch Paw Patrol or Sheriff Labrador. I've been telling them that the police are here to protect the businesses, not us, and that police can get away with just killing people.
It absolutely sucks but I don't want my kids to be either of the ones in this story. Fuck the police, all of them.
Absolutely, fuck the police, but are you also teaching your children to never call an ambulance or the fire department? Are we also saying fuck paramedics and firefighters? Because, again, it's the same goddamn number for both, and you don't usually get the other services without the murder hobos tagging along.
Maybe we can focus on the murder hobos and not blaming a child for the actions of the murder hobos.
I've been teaching my kids to not call the police. I have been telling them to call 911 when someone is hurt or something is on fire, neither of which were the case in this story.
We can both blame the police and not teach kids to call them. Calling them murder hobos is too charitable IMHO; it makes them sound like goofy adventurers, or not True Police who would never do this.
Where did you get the idea the caller was a 12-year-old? It says in the article he was 19. The victim was 17.
The caller wasn't 12.
The son is 19, not 12.
You are actively throwing away the persons life when you call the police on them.
Yeah, absolutely clueless people.
A child called the police for help. Insulting them is crass.
I don't know where everyone gets the idea the caller was a kid when the article is clear that he was not.
They probably read the person who lied/was mistaken in another post and automatically believed them. They're both getting lots of upvotes for saying it was a 12-yo child who called (it was actually a 19-yo). Some people are more into getting upvotes than being accurate.
Don’t see how it matters much. A 19 year old kid called the cops for help. He did the right thing. It should have been the right thing
I'm. 58
He's a kid. 19 years old is a kid. Sorry.
I'm. 58
He's a kid. 19 years old is a kid