So just watched and looks like a horrible shoot. Had heard rumors of a gun being dumped shortly prior by the kid but saw no such thing. Was it just right wing propaganda?
There are still photo shots from the video which show the kid dumping the gun 0.8 seconds before he was shot.
The 21 year old idiot that was with this 13 year old should go to prison for contributing to get this kid killed. Twenty years ought to do it.
watched a different angle, grainy but I surmise 148secs. is it: it's a tough one, he's fucking w/his pockets/waistband, I give this one to the cop honestly if what looks like kid's dumping behind the fence is a gun, even if he was too quick on the trigger. He's got a "shots fired call, chasing a suspect, suspect fucking around with waist band/pocket raising hands as he turns
On the one hand, we'll likely see another record with 2021's summer high temperatures, which puts upward pressure on crime rates. On the other hand, with rising employment we should see downward pressure on crime rates. Trigger-happy cops can tip that scale.
The seasonal crime rate in Chicago peaks in the warmest part of the summer. Just as important, there are more shootings on holidays and weekends. More importantly, seasonal crime rate has a seasonal cycle with the weather in almost every big city in the United States and Canada. I know travel agencies that will use charts like the below to recommend to their clients the best time to travel to a particular city in the United States if the person plans to vacation there. ---------- The association between weather and the number of daily shootings in Chicago (2012–2016) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7310019/ wrbtrader
for reference, this other kid carrying an illegal weapon, having shot 3 people, killing two of them, walks past the cops with his hands up and drives home: