12yo Rapper Facing Felony Charges for Selling CDs

[Monster Hunter]

very excessive, but the screaming lady really really didn't help the situation at all. :/

[Kraenen]

Because he was just selling CDs. Doesn't seem like he's causing any trouble. Why not just escort him out? Why charge him with three fucking felonies?

Regardless, I'm not so much arguing that he doesn't deserve consequences, but that those consequences are not fairly given out.

The trespassing count seems pretty fair. Kid ignored the fact a police officer told him to leave several times.

[tikcol]

If you think a police officer is justified in levelling those threats against a 12 year old kid then I don't even want to know your type.

What threats ?

[IIamaKing]

Because he was just selling CDs. Doesn't seem like he's causing any trouble. Why not just escort him out? Why charge him with three fucking felonies?

Regardless, I'm not so much arguing that he doesn't deserve consequences, but that those consequences are not fairly given out.

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Were they charged with three felonies afterward? I don't see where the kid was resisting either.

You mean a ~60 second clip from an angry family member isnt showing the whole chain of events that likely spanned an afternoon? "Cotton, Im Shocked!"

Resisting can be as much as trying to pull your arm away, which he clearly does in the video.

He has no business selling CDs inside the mall, and he WAS escorted out multiple times, if you bother to read the story.

[Shadowferal]

"This is happened to white kids before too!!! I won't find any proof but it did!!" You're embarrassing yourself. You made a claim, back it up.

It's not me that's embarrassing myself.
Read my post again.

But then this is always your angle...putting fucking words in people's posts...reading shit that isn't there. And for what? Does it make your simple-minded self feel better?
This is no high-horse your on. It's a damn high-chair.

[Raging Fungus]

Because he was just selling CDs. Doesn't seem like he's causing any trouble. Why not just escort him out?

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Well according to the story he came back several times after being kicked out? Not sure what else you expect them to do at that point.

[zhero]

Because he was just selling CDs. Doesn't seem like he's causing any trouble. Why not just escort him out? Why charge him with three fucking felonies?

Regardless, I'm not so much arguing that he doesn't deserve consequences, but that those consequences are not fairly given out.

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Were they charged with three felonies afterward? I don't see where the kid was resisting either.

they shouldn't have to escort him out all day. you don't see the disorderly conduct because the auntie went and attacked the officer when the camera started flying all over the place.

[Kraenen]

Yeah, I'm totally sure the 12 year old kid could have left on his own without his family.

His family was just going to stay there without him?

[Muajin76]

Who sells cd's these days lol.

Apparently you never see bootleggers or aspiring music artists outside malls etc anymore. A few here and there still do. :P

[Shadowferal]

How am I putting words in your mouth? You made a claim. Back it up. I'm still waiting.

Is the English language that difficult...fucking read the post.

[nyc81991]

That's so dumb... the kid is 12 years old and it's a cd with his music, who cares if he was trying to sell it.

[Kraenen]

So you think it was the 12 year old calling the shots deciding where to go and when to leave?

If your child (or family member) is escorted out of the premises by the police (several times), you'd really just chill and eat some mcdonalds or some shit? lol.

[zhero]

That's so dumb... the kid is 12 years old and it's a cd with his music, who cares if he was trying to sell it.

the people that own the mall, the people that have to pay rent to be there to sell, the people he kept bothering to buy the CDs...

What the fuck are you talking about? If the kid was asked to leave several times but he and his family stayed there, do you really think it's the kid's fault or the parents/guardian's fault?

it is if he kept sneaking in to try selling the CDs

[Kraenen]

What the fuck are you talking about? If the kid was asked to leave several times but he and his family stayed there, do you really think it's the kid's fault or the parents/guardian's fault?

So you're saying the family members should've left with him instead of sitting around?

[Shadowferal]

How do you know that? Seems like it not existing backs up my claim more so than yours. Again, you're embarrassing yourself.

You found some shitty cause celebre and want to put everyone else on the other side because it makes you feel good about yourself...wtg.

[Kraenen]

I'm saying it's not the kid's fault that they didn't leave. The 12 year old isn't in charge.

Why didn't the family leave with him?

[nyc81991]

the people that own the mall, the people that have to pay rent to be there to sell, the people he kept bothering to buy the CDs...

He's 12, it's really not that serious to the point of going to court and facing legal charges.

[cparle87]

What exactly do you think lead to those events?

I would bet literally all my money every time that this wouldn't happen to a white kid.

A guy down the street, into a store, and robs it, gets arrested for armed robbery.
OP makes a thread titled "Man gets felony arrest for walking down street."

That's what he's arguing about. The kid wasn't arrested because he was selling CDs.

[cparle87]

I don't know? The point is that the family didn't leave and you seem to be under the delusional that somehow the 12 year old had the sole power to decide where he and his parents/guardians went.

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Again, what do you think lead to those events? Your argument is a false equivalency. Walking down the street wasn't the cause of that person robbing a store. The kid was just selling CDs, if no one bitch and moaned about an action that wasn't harming anyone, there wouldn't be any issue. The scenario of him trespassing was created because he was selling CDs. The scenario of him resisting arrest was created because a cop was trying to arrest him for trespassing which was a scenario created by him selling CDs and someone bitching about it.

Cause and effect aren't that difficult of a concept. Pretty sure you learn it in elementary school. The event that ultimately lead to him being arrest was him selling CDs.

A better comparison would be a guy walking down the street minding his own business gets harassed by a cop for no reason. Guy gets agitated and yells at the top. Cop says he's being disorderly and tries to arrest him. Guy resists. Cops slaps him with resisting arrest as well now. Technically that guy was arrested for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest but in reality he was arrested for walking down the street.

That would be a more accurate comparison than your bullshit.

A better comparison was the kid broke the law, was told by police to stop breaking the law, refused to stop, ran away, broke the law some more in a different way, and is now trying to cry victim.

[Azadina]

Why blame the kid and not his parents? Should he have just stolen their keys and drove himself home?

Sad thing is, I bet doing that would have netted him less bogus charges.