Philadelphia police fatally shot a 12-year-old in the back Tuesday

[Nevilledog]

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"When asked why the boy was shot in the back, Naish said the fact that he was fleeing 'doesn’t mean that he wasn’t continuing to be a threat to the officers.'"

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Philadelphia police fatally shot a 12-year-old in the back Tuesday, officials say
The boy, identified as Thomas Siderio, was taken to Penn Presbyterian Hospital and died minutes after he was shot.
1:43 PM · Mar 2, 2022

https://www.inquirer.com/news/phildelphia-police-shooting-thomas-siderio-south-philadelphia-20220302.html

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Philadelphia Police officers fatally shot a 12-year-old boy in the back Tuesday night in South Philadelphia, officials said Wednesday.

The boy, identified as Thomas Siderio, was taken to Penn Presbyterian Hospital and died minutes after he was shot.

According to a police statement released Wednesday, four plainclothes officers were in an unmarked car in the area of 18th and Barbara Streets at about 7:20 p.m. and saw two people standing on the street corner, one of whom appeared to be holding a handgun. When the driver turned on the emergency lights, the police heard gunfire and a back window of the police car shattered.

Police said two officers got out of the car and fired multiple shots at Siderio, who was holding a gun and began to flee. One of those officers chased Siderio and fired two times, striking Siderio in the upper right back area once. The bullet exited through Siderio’s chest, police said.


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Of course there will be no body cam because they were undercover.

Nice copaganda though.

[PCIntern]

1. Business as usual here....

I have treated hundreds of cops here and some of the stories literally left me speechless. And they relate them with great pride and humorous banter…

[Nevilledog]

2. Yeah....27 years of questioning cops. They love to brag about being assholes.

[orwell]

3. If he really had a gun...

...and if he really shot at police, I don't see where they had a choice, no matter if he was running away or not. It meant he had a gun and he was stupid enough to shoot it.

The problem is that cops have been lying so much, it is hard to just take there word for it.

That is why this culture of cops lying is so damaging to the good cops. It makes us not trust anyone.

[Nevilledog]

4. There are ways to stop someone WITHOUT KILLING A 12YO RUNNING AWAY.

1. These cops were undercover, who knows what these kids thought was coming after them.
2. There was zero information that this kid was involved in any projectile coming from a window.
3. They said he "appeared" to have a gun until they killed him. Where's the gun? What do witnesses say?
4. Unless this kid was actually armed and running and pointing it at the police, he was not an immediate threat. We have given too much power to law enforcement to kill people because they act like they're psychic.

We've become numb to the amount of police violence that happens every day.
Not that we don't care about it, but it's become so normalized.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. All THIS

[Karadeniz]

8. Great points !!

[orwell]

10. I am saying the same thing...

...my caveats were that what the cops were saying is true.

If what they were saying is true, I think it was a justified shooting.

What if he had a gun, had shot at the cops (which were my prerequisites), he has then exhibited the use of deadly force and is running away.

He is then considered a threat to innocents as well.

Once again, if everything the cops said is true, they have to stop him before he shoots at anyone else.

[Nevilledog]

11. They don't have anything to tie him to the "projectile".

It's copaganda. You get this side, using these words, and when the witnesses speak up it will be something completely different.

We see it over and over and over again.

Luckily for the cops there's no bodycam.

[sakabatou]

5. I'm unsure there will be an investigation on the shooting.

Or if there is, it'll be swept under the rug, or the cops will try to sweep it.

[Zeitghost]

7. I don't find it unreasonable

That police, or anyone for that matter, return fire when someone is shooting at you. The deceased minor was found with a stolen 9mm handgun, forensic evidence will in all likelihood show that he fired it at police.

It's tragic that a 12 year old's path in life led here, but by all appearances this was a legal use of force.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. FTP.

[budkin]

12. "They feared for their lives"

CASE CLOSED.

[tishaLA]

13. This news report calls him a "young man" JFC

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/12-year-old-boy-shot-in-the-back-and-killed-by-philadelphia-police-identified/3164017/

The anchor's comments at the beginning of the video.

Since when is a 12 year old a "young man"? It's part of that pathology a certain group has of construing you black folks (and especially males) as taller, older, stronger, etc., because of....well, you know.

[Nevilledog]

14. And it sounds bad when you point out they killed a kid.