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Cop kills 15 year old, charges friend with the murder

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Bob_Loblaw
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/27/brandon-ross-charged-with_n_868289.html

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with murder after a Chicago police officer fatally shot his 15-year-old friend Wednesday on the South Side.

Brandon Ross and his friend Tatioun Williams allegedly robbed a man at gunpoint in the 7000 block of South Cregier Avenue Wednesday evening, and were confronted by police officers a short time later, the Chicago Tribune reports.

When the officers told the teens to stop, Williams, who was holding the gun, allegedly turned in the officer's direction, Fox Chicago reports. Fearing for her life, the officer shot the 15-year-old, killing him.

"They could have taken him to jail, they could have done anything but taken his life," Williams' mother told the Tribune Thursday.

Under state law, police can charge someone with murder when an accomplice is killed during the commission of a crime. Even though Ross didn't pull the trigger, he was charged as an adult with murder and armed robbery. He was ordered held on $900,000 bail Friday.

The teens allegedly took a wallet and iPod from a 27-year-old man before the shooting.

Jun 8 2011 4:15PM
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k-rob
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i love how every single time there is a thread like this, without fail there is some kid who feels it's his duty as a citizen to stand up for the police.
actually i don't love it.
Jun 10 2011 3:47AM
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*TURBONERD*
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WTF. Most fucked up law ever?
Jun 10 2011 6:54AM
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KRASHED
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It's a pretty shitty law, at least if they make a dumb law like that don't charge the kid with murder maybe tone it down to involuntary manslaughter? Not sure if the sentence is much lighter but either way that's a shit law.

Also put yourself in the cops situation. A kid with a gun turning in your direction. This isn't the movies people. Someone has a gun that can go bang that can kill you. Shooting handguns really isn't the easiest thing to do in the world accurately. If someone with a gun turns in my direction I won't wait to get a last second drop that fucker is going down.

You rob someone with a deadly weapon whether it be a gun, knife, bow or shark with a laser beam you forfeight your right to live.
Jun 10 2011 8:03AM
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Deluge
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thats so fucked up
Jun 10 2011 3:37PM
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e.wait
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this is why we are guaranteed the right to a trial by jury. the kid will most likely be acquitted for the murder. however, i could see how the law might make a LITTLE sense in CERTAIN situations.
Jun 10 2011 3:53PM
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Yinzer
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essentially its put in place because when your an accomplice to a crime that kills, you basically are the direct cause of a situation that killed someone therefore its your fault. but murder? it should be involuntary manslaughter if anything
Jun 10 2011 4:25PM
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hurrdurr
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what the fuck is up with a law that says you can get charged of a murder everyone knows you didn't commit.

but well, the law is a law so if it is legal to charge the boy with a murder, he's going to jail right?
Jun 10 2011 4:29PM
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Snowgoner
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took the words right out of my mouth
Jun 11 2011 12:56AM
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Twinjibber77
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My friends dad works in the state pen and there is a guy in there LWOP who robbed a convenient store with his friend and when the clerk chased them he had a heart attack and died. Murder charge. Bam.
Jun 21 2011 1:22AM
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Blindsurfer
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yep
Jun 21 2011 1:26AM
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