Death of Zyion Charles | 12-year-old's family speaks after shooting

The family said Zyion was not in a gang, but noticed he started hanging out with an older crowd.

[@MMDavis-fv1ir]

There is no damn way my 12 year old son would be out at night without me…especially if I KNEW he was heading down the wrong path 🧐

[@ezduzit7102]

You can’t say that kids run away and sneak out

[@paigecammack5445]

Right and I ain’t arguing……if the kid is running away something ain’t right at home. I am a mother of 4 a young mother at that and I have 3 teens 14-16-17 and they aren’t staying at nobody’s crib if their parents isn’t present and fulltime parents. I am hard on them and keep it real with my them ,they might get mad at me but they have never thought about leaving my home I have told them to get out (go to grandmas,aunties, Ect..) and they still won’t because my home is where it’s at all their friends is here for the holidays 😊

[@paigecammack5445]

I’m not blaming the mother because I know how it is raising kids, but there is absolutely no way this 12 year old should have been out at night period. 12 years old and night time don’t mix in my eyes, and I have two boys by the way. I just don’t think night time is for kids if it’s night at 5 my kids are in at 5 find something to do in house…..My heart goes out to both families it’s sad these kids are out of control 😢

[@verajones9158]

@@ezduzit7102 True even if you check on them periodatily at times it can STILL HAPPEN!!!!

[@verajones9158]

@@paigecammack5445 GOOD JOB..... And keep holding it down, My Mom was Very Strict and now I can look back and just say..... THANK YOU JESUS it is three of us and WE HAVE NEVER BEEN JAIL or ON DRUGS JESUS IS KEEPING US HALLELUJAH!!!

[@pgppe9488]

Some people should not be having children. How can they raise productive children since they have never been raised themselves. His mother actually thinks the system failed her. Listen to her comments, He was being a child. How stupid is that…

[@silentmajority8365]

You are looking at the people that should not be having children

[@HuemanNature55]

That part, just sad….I wasn’t the best parent but never this, and my boys one time they got the message.

[@kermithdyer9301]

where is family his father or is he one those that fuck and run when a baby comes

[@kandisweetie1629]

One video the mom is saying he out here getting in trouble the next video he was a good kid hanging out with 400 kids having fun stop trying to blame the police his so called “friends” did this not the cops

[@roblox21242]

She wanted the cop to false arrest her son to teach him a lesson because she knew he was hanging out with gangs but they cannot false arrest somebody, this will backfired and they will be shamed in the media for profiling, racisms, the kid will go one traumatized thinking the cops is onto him. She got herself flip flopping she said she wanted help from the got for a fake arrest on her kid bcuz he was getting in trouble and hanging with the wrong people then she said her kid is a good kid and was bothering nobody, just having fun with other 400 kids then in the end of the video she mentioned something about her kid being a black kid and how this targets him. Yet she wanted the cops to fake arrest him…. Im glad they didn’t step in, she might have turned this on the cops and sue the city

[@ddhh1270]

The tragedy of so many boys who have no father figure to give guidance or discipline in their life.

[@silentmajority8365]

So who is stopping blk men from marrying the women they get pregnant?

[@San_Be]

Didn't Zyion's mother have any male relatives or friends that could have mentored him and scared him straight? Since he was already going down the wrong path, he should NOT have been at a friends house day or night.

[@blacksunflower2958]

I would say no if she didn’t have a village or anyone to mentor her son, everybody doesn’t have that village and it’s unfortunate

[@kandisweetie1629]

What in the world is the Auntie talking about your sister was the one saying he was getting in trouble

[@jay-t1030]

He needed a father, Not the police.

[@silentmajority8365]

Tell it to ⬛⬛men

[@Dave-Jackson]

@@silentmajority8365 Dude

[@seanrance8069]

Some folks never take responsibility… It is not someone else’s fault your 12 yr old son or nephew was walking around with kids you admit were a bad crowd. When will this madness stop

[@Cornbreadfed82]

He SNUCK OUT!! That's not her fault.

[@DJ-cc9xs]

Truth

[@LuisRivera-yl4ib]

I totally agree blacks are helping the devil win. Then the first too say BLM 🤔 and the first too kill each other for a block the don't own,a gold chain they don't want to work hard for and glorify and idolize prisoners gang members and athletes who buy prisons wake up

[@kaizersoze2606]

Man this is horrible but I can say from experience I remember being very young and looking up to the older street guys and would beg to hang out with them it’s the way the street portrays street guys and the way the street works it’s very hard to keep your kids out of harms way when he’s surrounded by bullshit unless you keep him inside it’s a cold world…. Folks let’s clean these streets up for the children so they can go outside without the bullshit

[@wasupman777]

@@Cornbreadfed82 so that's the kid's fault? He's 12 year old

[@XrayxRich]

He was associating with a gang doing what "gangs" do. Yeah, he was in a gang.

[@jasonwilson8671]

How do you know

[@aldosanchez374]

@@jasonwilson8671 show me your friends and I'll show you who you are. That simple

[@diamondrose34]

@@aldosanchez374 so you're a nobody?

[@aldosanchez374]

@@diamondrose34 factssss sweety factssss 🤪

[@aldosanchez374]

@@diamondrose34 now go back to being a HOODRAT . Diamond 🙄😁

[@jenmarks6594]

The mom needs to stop blaming everyone else for the path this kid traveled, she needs to blame herself.

[@JK-vi3jm]

Wow you sound like quite the arrogant bitch

[@jenmarks6594]

@@JK-vi3jm Nope, just stating the facts. People like you, who sympathize with parents who allow their children to turn into nasty little criminals are what's wrong with society.

[@jasonwilson8671]

@@goborderpatrol1 😳 so you know every black person.

[@QueenK88]

@@jasonwilson8671 he's a troll!

[@HuemanNature55]

@@goborderpatrol1 you have low self esteem…

[@bobmilin]

Sounds like they are blaming the police rather then the criminals.

[@stephaniemurria5534]

They sound stupid.

[@gsfishing218]

Why your 12 year old not home with you ? Parents are the problem

[@Jnicks01]

I agree no way in hell my son would be out and I don’t know what he’s doing

[@empressnigeria]

Exactly🥀

[@goborderpatrol1]

Don’t expect black people to understand this…

[@Jnicks01]

@@goborderpatrol1 I’m black and I be damned if my children be out and I don’t know exactly what they’re doing and where they are

[@silentmajority8365]

⬛⬛👈👈

[@idellagriffin4654]

I must be old-fashioned because there is no way in hell that my 12 year old baby would be out and about without me. My baby is 16 and he is still not allowed to be hanging around the city without me. Rest in Heavenly Peace young man! I'm so sorry this happened to you!

[@roblox21242]

You won’t be able to control him if will just lie to you becuz they meet each other in school settings not in the streets

[@idellagriffin4654]

@@roblox21242 You may not be able to control yours but best believe I CAN and WILL control mine until he's an adult and can take care of himself. My babies know I don't play. I will go to hell and back for my babies. At least my baby is in school where they can be monitored then after school I pick him up and he comes straight home with me. My kids are not allowed to hang out. If you don't like it or you don't understand that's on you. I don't know what to tell you. It is what it is🤷‍♀️

[@roblox21242]

@@idellagriffin4654 they just lie to u, cuz as a black myself ive seen friends get in with the baddies and lie to there parents lol

[@denisewright9551]

no, u r not old=fashioned. u are concerned about your child's whereabouts. I say that's good parenting. making sure he gets good grades and can be a productive young man like we should be doing for our young males. our job is to keep them out of jail.

[@idellagriffin4654]

@@denisewright9551 Yes ma'am! Thank you! You're so right!

[@Nickyd2024]

I have a son my son was not allowed to hang in the streets at 12yrs old

[@savedsteve1988]

Thank u

[@mikelavelle5019]

They should arrest the mother and the fathers....

[@silentmajority8365]

Father already in jail🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@chayaleahisrael4791]

Why was he out at night 12 years old! Mom take some responsibility that your son was hanging out at the train station which is transportation and traveling not a hangout spot! Mothers put your son in after school activities, stay on them find out who their friends are it’s life or death!! Nothing in them streets!!!

[@silentmajority8365]

12 year-old gang member

[@obadiahconrad8989]

BIBLE OBADIAH 1:15

[@Digest125]

He snuck out, what was she supposed to do? If he snuck out that means she didn't know he went without her permission

[@Jnicks01]

Bad parenting, this is way it’s important to get married and then have children this young man needed his father

[@ttpptt]

Bad parenting and being married are two different issues. Just because a father is absent doesn't mean a child will not succeed.

[@Jnicks01]

@@ttpptt ripple like you are the problem

[@aneshaelizabeth]

Being married has nothing to do with this. There are children that grow up with both parents and still go down the “wrong path”.

[@silentmajority8365]

@@ttpptt Yet blks commit 55% of all USA murder 77% of blk illegitimate 50% of Blk women/ girls victims of sexual abuse Look these up Any Questions?

[@silentmajority8365]

@@aneshaelizabeth Pretty sure it does Your lack of commitment Everything is too much for you wahhh laws too hard to obey wahhh everybody racist wahhh waahhhh baby mama culture Now consider this 77% of blks are illegitimate So many are having children with half brothers and half sisters Thats what happens when you don't know who your father is

[@bengray423]

Why was Zyion there is the question ! Some body wants to sue anyone they can!

[@lamont238]

Parents have to understand you're accountable and responsible for your kids actions not the police

[@reignman30]

Well when you go your entire life drinking the democrat koolaid, your priorities tend to get all screwed up. Next thing you know boys think they can be girls, and ... oh wait.

[@thisistheendministries2557]

Thank you

[@kandisweetie1629]

So know her son was hanging out having fun with other kids but in the News conference clearly those teens were not out having fun he was with the crowd that was shooting at Cameron stop trying to blame this on the cops my hearts go out to the family but her son should have not been with that crowd don’t blame the police

[@khasualentertainment6734]

He shouldve been in the house. Why was he wondering around with high-school kids

[@ryda79]

It is very unfortunate but the more I listen to their arguments the more I hear them saying that they wish the police had parented their children now I understand that we are not in control of anybody when these kids leave the house they simply do what they want to do but you cannot blame the police officers for not staying with the children longer that really isn't part of their job

[@roblox21242]

She wanted the cops to scare the kid by false arresting him, sending him a warn so he stay out of trouble but cops cannot teach these kids lesson because it would be racial profiling, they can’t just threaten or send warnings to kids to scare them off even if the parents want them to because this is racism if they do. Because that kid will forever think the police have them as target 🤷🏿 and it’s racism too. It can backfired if cops start doing these.

[@Albania18100]

I m sorry for your loss. Its not the police duty to educate your kid. You as a mom need to do more. sorry again about your loss

[@DaOneandOnly_]

You have to raise your children . The hell take responsibility and learn that having a child is a serious thing and shouldn’t be taken lightly

[@pgppe9488]

Maybe she could have done a better job if she wasn’t trying to raise six kids by herself.

[@silentmajority8365]

So far an elevator could raise blk kids better

[@michaelwilson3607]

His uncle's, father, and grandfather should be checking the young boy, not the police who will deal with him AFTER he violates the Law.

[@stephaniemurria5534]

Absolutely 💯

[@blackbeauty5840]

What is a 12 Yr old doing outside after dark? Mom please take responsibility

[@Dave-Jackson]

I’m saying

[@barbaraharris4941]

I'm sorry for your loss but at the same time though you should have been taking control of your child and who he associated with cuz things like this happens unfortunately and again I'm so sorry for your loss the parents need to start taking control of being parents and start watching with the kids are doing

[@heavenboundnicks518]

That goes without saying at a time like this I don’t think we need to direct that to a grieving mother right now, sorry for your loss could have stopped there I feel so bad for her

[@thisistheendministries2557]

@@heavenboundnicks518well with the mindset of people like you that’s why this is going to keep happening

[@willspann9894]

I feel sympathy for these mothers but I feel they should say less......or at least give themselves some time to make a more well thought out statement.

[@stephaniemurria5534]

Absolutely 💯

[@HuemanNature55]

They are feeling hella attacked on top of guilt and grief😢

[@misterb5926]

The idol mind wanders...it's the devils playground. Can't expect to hang out in that environment around all the pookie and ray ray's and expect good results. Gotta move away and/or earn enough income to isolate yourselves from that element... by 12 it was already too late for responsibility and discipline..the older guys in the streets already had him and socially introduced him to that life. Sad but True..Take heed parents! Keep your kids so busy that they have no time for the street life !

[@Thingstheywontteach]

They need to take accountability for there own actions tired of the blame games

[@roblox21242]

The problem is, police can’t be arresting and giving false warnings to black kids because this will backfire and cause them to be publicly shamed in the media for profiling black kids, etc…. If he didn’t break any law, there’s nothing the police can do, they try to false arrest him because the parents wants to teach the kid a lesson, the cops will be in deep trouble… you reap what you sorrow.

[@nostalgiajuana]

I use to be one of those kids doing shit I had no business doing, he was definitely running with gangs and selling, one this about that life is it doesn't care how old u are it'll chew you up and spit u out if your lucky enough it make it out alive

[@paulahutcherson1045]

Why do people always blame everyone but themselves when this type of thing happens. When I was 11 my dad had the fear of God in me because he knew where I was at every day and if I messed up oh what a ass whopping I would get. He was always there for us and I am so happy that he was. Thanks mom and dad. I love you. 👍♥️🇺🇸

[@nursemcfarlane6655]

For a 12 year old unsupervised on the streets is borderline child abuse.

[@timmcdermot9427]

They flipped the script for a paycheck

[@asiam1528]

Discipline starts at home.. Stop spoiling your kids and being their friend and discipline them home before the street gets to them

[@reignman30]

Spoiling lol? Spoiling implies being involved, which is the real problem here. We're expecting people to be responsible for other human beings when they can't even be responsible for themselves. That's why they keep having kids, they're not responsible. Maybe the 5th baby daddy will stick around this time.

[@kenyanataylor]

People shouldn’t be so quick to judge this woman sometimes kids are going to do what they want to do and I know this from experience with my niece. No matter how much you punish. No matter how much you try to reach to your community for guidance or advice it may still never be enough. My sister has put my niece in extracurricular activities hoping it would keep her busy and not hanging around the wrong crowd. She’s taken all electronics and band her from social media. She’s gotten her counseling. My niece has even been arrested and put on probation. My niece was and is not being raised in a bad environment although her father is absent she still has a village of family members and a step father who loves her and are very present in her life but sometimes kids just make the decision to do what they want and the only thing you can do is pray over them and speak life into. So I said that to say don’t be so quick to judge because you never know the lengths and depth a person went through to try and save their kid and if she was having a hard time getting through to her son there is nothing wrong with leaning on your community for help which she tried to do.

[@kevinshell8392]

Everyone else’s fault still. This “always the victim” mentality needs to be stopped

[@stephaniemurria5534]

I'm not sorry for them. This should be a lesson for younger women without children. Don't step into shoes you can't walk in.

[@kevinshell8392]

@@stephaniemurria5534 ….. I don’t either, I’m not making light of somebody getting shot and losing their life but watch the family still find a way to sue the city for money. They’ve started a go me fund to bury him but will find money for a lawyer to sue the city, watch never accountable always the victim

[@roblox21242]

So you don’t think this has anything to do with the laws by yt people? Why does this keep happening in our community but not in other races? Maybe use your brain next times🤷🏿 the cops offered no help now her son is gone, I hope she can sue becuz they never protected her served her son 🤷🏿

[@kevinshell8392]

@@roblox21242 ….. it’s not the cops job to raise her son that’s her responsibility. Stop always trying to blame others and play victim and take some accountability. Then you wanna verbally attack others who don’t agree with you 🤦🏿‍♂️ You’ll verbally attack me but will stay silent 🤫 towards the guys who murdered her son!!!!! Maybe she should sue those people who murdered her son instead of suing the cops!!!!

[@roblox21242]

@@kevinshell8392 we dont know who shot her son, theres no videos those kids did it... they never showed anything they just blamed them cuz they are black.. i saw the video they said theres cops in that area maybe they shot him thats why they never showed video but is blaming the group of BLACK kids.

[@jamesloft4122]

I’m from the woods the country parts of south Ga, dirt roads and old slave shacks covered with over grown weeds and bullet vines but y’all city folks call the muscadines, we call them bullets… We got plumb trees, pecan trees, pear trees, peach trees, fig trees, magnolia trees, chinaberry trees, creeks, water wells, old water pumps and you still might see a couple of out houses…..and I wouldn’t change it for nothing! With that being said….. these young guys need to be outside exploring nature not that city bullshit!! In my opinion that’s how young boys get to know themselves, their strengths and their weaknesses and become men by being outside with nature… the country life not then damn streets! We had guns too… plenty! But we never in our right mind would pull it to harm each other, and we’re young kids also, But we knew better and all friends were like family! We knew about the city life, but most of those city guys were bullies, spoiled, sensitive and couldn’t fight and like to talk fast about a hole lot of nothing and we didn’t talk much, Plus they always tried to outsmart us but we always outsmarted them so they kinda left us alone . I know that’s neither here nor there… It’s just my thoughts! This is sad but it’s normal and when the death of kids or anybody becomes normalized then we are doomed to embody death! Is this all we got offer each other? Damn sho looks like it! I bet you a million bucks that kid was gunned down over something silly or NOTHING at all…..

[@MR.FACTSS214]

I'm from the city aka the hood and God knows I wish I was raised in the country like you nothing but cut throat in the city jealousy Envy no respect no morals

[@savedsteve1988]

Sin and evil are everywhere the city the country

[@MR.FACTSS214]

@@savedsteve1988 you might be right brah but guess what us in the city are disrespectful have no morals and are around a bunch of jealousy envy and hatred this is a fact I'm from the "city" aka the hood but the truth is the truth

[@NickiStaff]

Definitely gang related 😢

[@cynthiamoore8022]

Another fatherless home 😢❤

[@kingchamuco1]

Gang related

[@silentmajority8365]

⬛⬛related

[@kermithdyer9301]

why they saying it because he black how they no if was some black that kill him stop saying it and iam black myself parent take control or your kids

[@saleemahmuhammad6656]

Hanging out with an order crowd is a sign he was headed for trouble. His mom tried to get help for him when he was getting in trouble, but the system failed him. Condolences to his family.

[@sonyaharris3966]

No the system didn’t fail the mother. The mother failed him. Where in the hell is a father? Fatherless black homes will always lead to tragedy.

[@bluu_ice6554]

@@sonyaharris3966 he's stuck in traffic he'll be here in a few more years

[@123lxxx6]

😂😂😂 can't feel bad for him

[@mssinglesingle602]

@@sonyaharris3966 JUST BECAUSE SOME CHILDREN DON'T HAVE THEIR FATHER IN THE HOME THAT DO NOT MEAN IT WILL ALWAYS BE TRAGEDY IN THE HOME I RAISED 2 BOYS WITHOUT THE FATHER & THEY NEVER GOT INTO ANY TROUBLE & I ALSO KNOW A FEW PEOPLE WHO RAISED THEIR SONS WITHOUT THE FATHERS & THEY NEVER GOT INTO ANY TROUBLE SO ...... WTF DO THAT GOT TO DO WITH IT ANYTHING✌

[@HuemanNature55]

@@mssinglesingle602 please don’t get upset, I raised 2 sons, divorced both fathers but co parented….we really need to value ourselves and start building families….If I had the money I would start a foundation.

[@SpeakEnglishwithHelptoachieve]

Why is a 12 yr old boy outside unsupervised . Why are they not taking responsibility . People want to have children and not raise them . BS

[@charlespittsjr604]

System wasn't to blame . It's not the systems responsible to raise your kid . Everybody else fault . Now I do agree maybe the cop should have come scared him with the mother's consent . But from what's been said he'd been gone for days . She had no idea where he was . I am not blaming her cause kids can be demons but you don't act like if only the cops would of did something he'd be ok . It's tuff . Prayers for her and her family cause it doesn't matter now he's gone but let's try and save the next one .

[@silentmajority8365]

He was gang bound No Why tease to blame

[@silentmajority8365]

Not judging got us here blaming everything but the criminal got us here The race card got us here Taking shame away from being a bum got us here not locking up the insane and drug addicted got us here not enforcing vagrancy and loitering laws got us here not enforcing immigration got us here thinking diversity is a strength got us here not encouraging faith patriotism and citizenship got us here equating the enforcement of laws with racism got us here not supporting the police got us here voting democrat got us here

[@wandaanderson8779]

PARENTS:: IT IS WRITTEN : Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is old he will not DEPART from it PARENTS: IT IS WRITTEN: CORRECT THY SON WHILE THERE IS HOPE, IF THOU BEATEST HIM WITH THE ROD HE WILL NOT DIE PARENTS : IT IS WRITTEN: spare the rod; spoil the child It is WRITTEN: even a child is known by his doings whether they be right or wrong The Books of PROVERBS gives a lot of nuggets on raising children 👍🏾💯🙏🏿

[@mattmccullough1093]

That's sad my heart and prayers go out to the family and I hope they get Justice and r.i.p. to that little boy.

[@imanbutton7072]

It was gang related because it was I'm tired of the excuses this how the kids die take accountability he probably wasn't in gang but his death was related

[@chedreams]

Who let's their 12 year old son walk around at night downtown basically partying outdoors with his friends in the city??

[@HuemanNature55]

Unfortunately a lot of broken families. It’s so sad…we got to fix it. Prisons are full of folks who’s parents with this ideology.

[@kermithdyer9301]

what the fuckwas doing out that of the night let the mother answer this plrase

[@RSH592]

Why is it ok for a 12 year old to be roaming the streets far from home? I see the mother who is grieving but where is the father? The police are not going to raise anyone's offspring and there should not be an expectation that they will.

[@a.tigerjr.6132]

She probably ran the father off or don't know who the father is.

[@blessingscampbell103]

Just the way the aunt looks at the mother as she speaks. I wonder what is she thinking

[@petlover4483]

OMG this breaks my heart my prayers go out to the family to give them strength to get through this horrific tragedy 🙏🏻

[@denisewright9551]

my condolences to all. i do know that I NEVER allowed my kid to go outside alone hanging with 400 kids. what in the Merry weather is going on. My kid had homework, projects and didn't go out until Friday, Aaturday's. And there was no going out on a school night. School, after school, dinner, bath, bed, STUDY, get A's. These kids have too much time on their hands. Cameron was just going by on his scooter. And Zyion was hanging with, AGAIN, so called friends. Just breaks my heart knowing that people don't know where their kids are . I'm sorry, a 12 yrr old At someone's house, what? THis is crazy on so many levels. why are 400 kids outside. what the heck are they doing. go help your mama clean the kitchen. I don't understand this. every one of those parents who had a child there, needs to check their child, and NOW before the shit gets worse.

[@nursemcfarlane6655]

1. Take accountability. 2. Stop depending on the city and governmental institutions. 3. Teach basic manners. 4. By age 2, obtain your child a library card and educate.

[@YazBeee]

Am I understanding this correctly? It sounds as though the family is saying the Atlanta PD should have done more. Sorry, but where's the ownership of YOUR child? That CHILD should have known better than to be a follower and join loads of other children to roam and cause havoc on the streets at night. The fear of and disappointment to his parents/family alone should have forced him to stay indoors. It's almost as though damned if you do, damned if you don't if you're a police officer. Had they given him a scared straight session and put him behind bars or had a conversation with him, the parents/family would have definitely spun it a different way and accused them of harassment or brutality. That little boy didn't deserve to die, and I understand the family is upset and looking to blame others, but this is most certainly not it! The countless programs out here to steer kids in the right direction and to prevent the lure of the streets ON TOP of families taking responsibility of their children is what is supposed to be raising our youth. If you cannot take ownership of what is yours, then don't have children. Quit forcing others to raise your children and blaming others for your failures.

[@lamentation0078]

Don't blame the police !!!!! Blame the Parents !!!! Why weren't you with your child. Make him come home in a decent hour.!!!!! Street lights ON!!!!! Go home..

[@fiestabrows]

Parents have got to make their kids understand that there are consequences for what you do & don’t do in your life. For starters, where were the influential men, Father Figures or Family members in his life? You know your mischievous child needs supervision! Why weren’t YOU nor family members NOT in the background protecting him, monitoring/overseeing him instead of depending upon authorities to do your job as a parent. You have got to be in the background with a child like that every step of the way. Parenting is not for the faint of heart. Some kids require constant supervision! If you as a parent could not be at Atlantic Station with him, then he had NO BUSINESS being there either! A stray bullet doesn’t have anyones name on it!

[@enzigenes]

They don't like or date influential men. They only date thugs and gang bangers.

[@stephaniemurria5534]

Yes. Where are the male family members. It's always a crowd of females pleaded for society to help them raise their children. Not going to happen. This will continue to be the end result.

[@MR.FACTSS214]

Social media ruined the youth all these kids have a lot of pressure growing up nowadays trying to keep up with the next guy is sad

[@stephaniemurria5534]

What pressure? They should have responsibilities at home or in the community. Doing something constructive. Take those damn phones away.

[@reignman30]

It's the left ruining the youth. To be fair, they control most of the social media platforms, so you're kinda right. Things worked pretty damn well for society for 1000's of years, then the left came along with their radical ideas and now everyone is wondering why everything is going to shit. Boys can be girls now, children don't need fathers, your problems are someone else's fault, don't worry about being accountable, participation trophies ... yeah I can't figure out where things went wrong.

[@goborderpatrol1]

Why OMG….. 😢 Why😢😢 …!!! Zion was a choir boy in the local church, he was talented young boy already accepted in Penn State despite his young age. Outstanding member of the community… WHYY ??????

[@bluu_ice6554]

He also was a junior minister at the local church!!!!

[@silentmajority8365]

It was not Penn state but the state Pen

[@jasonwilson8671]

Trolling huh

[@HuemanNature55]

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄go troll somewhere else

[@PopsBayson-bn3zb]

Ytf dey not bring lil purks name into ds

[@jonl.95]

Why that child was walking with hoodlums with guns.

[@starfire810]

Sure is alot of freedom for a child....

[@gunsmoke7573]

You should have called his daddy, or maybe never should have called him from the gitgo.

[@stephaniemurria5534]

B..... control does work.

[@georgejones4866]

the police are not the problem, child out in the street, at 12 year's mom was WHERE??? THAT'S THE PROBLEM, NO HOME WORK, BEING GROWN. SORRY MOM I FEEL YOUR PAIN

[@SocialNormz101]

Sad Story.. this doesn't make any sense. People's expectations of each other are getting ridiculous

[@natashachosebygodclark9616]

So sad 😭 😢 lord please help them while they going through this hard tragic times. Help us lord protect our kids and bring a change oh lord to the communities exspecially for our black kids.🙏🙌🏾❤️🥰😍😭😭 they have my condolences 💐

[@jasminetorre2384]

God lord have mercy he never started life

[@jasminetorre2384]

I am sorry but my 11 old is not hanging in train station having fun the hell he not we’re the we’re you

[@familyg4205]

WHAT A MOM

[@TrangLe-kc6os]

Rest in Peace 🙏🙏🙏

[@magn630]

Her child was being a child? No 12 yo should be out at midnight, alone. Sorry, but until people take responsibility, nothing will change, and kids will keep dying.

[@chereseworld5331]

I'm so for their lost but me as a mother of 2 boys I never let my sons go out no where too hang out with a group of other boys and at night he was 12 he should have been with an grown person not a group full of kids

[@dexrage1416]

She ain’t try enough tf a 12 doing running the streets at night letting a 12 year old run a parent is craxy

[@acbabelgates9386]

Im sorry but how is this the police/Authority fault? My Son is 11 years Old I dont let him leave mysight. Unless he going to school. Where is this kids Father?

[@fruitofthespiritgalatians5856]

The police is not your child's babysitter.

[@nothx512]

Now "Cops" have to be babysitters???? Lady....you better take in account your poor parenting skills

[@prettypearls26]

Wait shouldn’t she be talking to her babyfather? TF!

[@Phoneix2106]

Control YOUR child!!!! Being a kid hanging out late at night !!!!!?? Get the hell out of here 🤡! He was probably cussing yall ass out too in your own damn house telling yall what to do!! Now you wanna play victim and blame the police!!! Sorry it happened and i hope he's resting in peace but blame your self for now being a better parent!

[@denisewright9551]

ain't nothing outside but trouble with 400 immature minded kids. i would have ran the other way if i saw 400 small people outside. u would never see that in Time Square. I can't even picture this. please can someone tell me what were they doing. just talking. well, about what? i bet their rooms are a mess. mom's teach them to wash their clothes, help u out around the house, cook, clean the floors, bathrooms, wipe down counters. way too much time on their hands. they all better have A's on their report cards. I'm disgusted about the 400 kids hanging out.

[@savedsteve1988]

Say his name zyion charles sorry for the lost rip little man, we need to protest, we need to crack down on gang violence. My heart hurts for young black men they are told to watch out for police and whites, but it's their own black people doing all the killing.

[@reignman30]

BLM couldn't be reached for comment because the killer doesn't meet their complexion criteria. The rioting and looting have been postponed.

[@phxrus]

Hanging out with older crowd - I did that as young punk - did me no good, nowadays they shoot first, my day we fought it out, times have changed BEWARE

[@cbryant9078]

Ima dad to a 12 year old and a 16 year here in nyc and my 12 cannot do what I allow my 16 year old to do. My 16 year old can go with my permission out with his friends and my 12 year old cannot go no further than the neighborhood park with his friends the moment he start hanging with an older crowd I gotta then step up. Nyc is a bigger city with so many different groups of kids and normally the likeminded kids hang with each other meaning the ones that where raised pretty much the same and have the same rules most of the time smaller cities have a little bitch more of an issue with teen and pre teens always have

[@danielhernandez3831]

I love how it's the city. It's the police. It's the whatever the lie they're perpetuating he wasnt in a gang . So 400 kids at the station. An after school school function 🤣 I'm sure

[@danielhernandez3831]

🙄 🤨🤔

[@silentmajority8365]

Not judging got us here blaming everything but the criminal got us here The race card got us here Taking shame away from being a bum got us here not locking up the insane and drug addicted got us here not enforcing vagrancy and loitering laws got us here not enforcing immigration got us here thinking diversity is a strength got us here not encouraging faith patriotism and citizenship got us here equating the enforcement of laws with racism got us here not supporting the police got us here voting democrat got us here

[@just_k_i_m6698]

@@silentmajority8365 a thought-provoking comment. Lots to consider and "unpack" here. Honest question... why do u feel that diversity is a weakness? I'm VERY interested in your thoughts on the matter. Thanks.

[@silentmajority8365]

just K_I_M Diversity prevents a consensus on a code of conduct EXAMPLE Will Smith committed assault on national TV but was not arrested or removed from the room What kind of message does that send to kids? Crime is ok if somebody insults you? The Oscars went 94 years before a crime was committed and by a blk man YEA diversity It prevents a consensus on priorities of the country and the community EXAMPLE Allowing illegal that don't speak English don't pay taxes but expect bilingual education splitting the resources for our kids

[@misslee3700]

@@silentmajority8365 So true. So true indeed. Our country is exploding from within.

[@nottodaylilbaldhead]

400 children at Atlantic Station???? For what???? You can't blame the police he is a child. You control his actions. I feel for the mom though.

[@6time686]

Always tears after the shooting but NO real attempt to prevent it beforehand. The police are NOT your caretakers. But I guess you have to blame someone. Anyone else. This is the result of having children with deadbeats that don't stick around. A father would have kept his ass in the house...

[@HuemanNature55]

12 years old you are in the 6th grade😮…..a child sorry fam, but it’s not safe in these streets for this action.

[@Sean70712]

Where’s the father

[@yvankouame9437]

Wait now they are blaming the police? Really?

[@deniseromantica]

My children are my responsibility. Nobody else. I need to teach from wrong and right. Pls stop saying that because of the race or the color ,they are judging the kid. Let's just take responsibilities as parents.

[@dianaladder2355]

Your the parent where were you while this kid was roaming the streets, always putting the blame on someone else,then you have the nerve saying a young blkkid but it's your own blkpeople doing this,then you say to serve and protect when these cops are getting shot by the very same people,but yet none of you seem to care only when it happens to you doesn't seem fair does it,?

[@trishbender7940]

👿 yeah, it’s always someone else’s fault… Where are you?

[@Roadrunner65553]

This has to stop. People need to seriously take on their responsibilities as Parents. Teach your child to be intelligent enough to avoid the street and to SHUN gang life. This is bullshit. No one is fooled by the culture trap excuses

[@Michelle-vr9zl]

Defund the police or have them parent your children?? These people are deluded.

[@aliciahowe2666]

This world is filled with wicked people trust no one

[@Boutys_mom]

So sad. He thought they were his "friends". Just awful... 12yr old is still a baby really. Just sad. What's the deal with the group of 400 children meeting at the train station? Was there some kind of event happening?

[@enzigenes]

Gang initiation.

[@reignman30]

Probably organizing some sort of crime. Lots of flash mobs robbing stores these days ... in lefty controlled areas where they look the other way on crime.

[@HuemanNature55]

Y’all realize that was 200 children outside downtown guns no supervision….

[@reignman30]

But we're expected to believe systemic racism is their biggest threat.

[@SamirahjahanMitilah]

681 Elna Village

[@MarquisDemary-d9m]

Okuneva Prairie

[@charlierlaflosstv]

These inner cities need to do more to get these illegal guns off the street and fix our gun laws why do these minors have guns? I know we have a right to bear arms but there needs to be more gun control and screenings and background checks. And the types of guns being sold should be regulated, heavily. It’s getting to a point where you can’t trust no one around you in a crowd.

[@HuemanNature55]

And these our parents needs to parent their children….it shouldn’t even get to them having guns, these are children in the city….

[@roblox21242]

Gun law won’t prevent kids from 3d printing a gun, most of their kids is illegal for a reason.., no laws would prevent them from getting their hands on these guns 🤷🏿

[@reignman30]

Yeah, that's the problem here, guns lol. Not the retarded culture, not the retarded ideology, the guns SMH. Keep drinking the democrat koolaid and wonder why thing never get better in the black community. How many decades have the democrats been pretending to help anyway? 6? At some point don't you have to realize you're just a useful idiot? I mean why would they ever want to screw up that 95% voter rate? Meanwhile the hillbilly's own all the guns, big scary guns and their 12yo's aren't getting gunned down in the street or shot by police hmmmmmm.

[@jonl.95]

Big ol dome caught a cap. Sad.

[@stephaniemurria5534]

Damn.