Police: 15-year-old boy shot, killed by officer in Akron

[@nuttybar9]

The black guy being interviewed sounds as if he wants too blame the Police already was.

[@11derekknotek]

Typical beat reporter, asking why the cop shot the child instead of why the child had a gun or where his parents were. Then, fishing for anti-cop sentiments from council members.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

Thomas Michael "T. J." Lane III,[5] a 17-year-old male juvenile and former student of Chardon, who was a sophomore at Lake Academy Alternative School and used a bus in common with several victims. Lane used a .22 caliber handgun. Lane was soon arrested by police near his car parked outside the school. Lane was ultimately indicted on three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated attempted murder, and one count of felonious assault.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

A white gunman who opened fire inside a Walmart in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself may have been motivated by racist extremism, the FBI said Wednesday.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

On August 4, 2019, 24-year-old Connor Betts shot and killed nine people, including his brother,[a] and wounded 17 others near the entrance of the Ned Peppers Bar in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio.[3][6][7] Betts was fatally shot by responding police officers 32 seconds after the first shots were fired.[3][8] A total of 27 people were taken to area hospitals.[8] It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Ohio since the 1975 Easter Sunday Massacre.

[@Rick8191-tv8pg]

Idk what your saying because there's over 750 mass killings every year , 95% of them are done by black youths . they are 5% of the population and do 55% of all violent and sex crimes. Why does 95% of the country do 45% of the crimes

[@Rick8191-tv8pg]

Certain people aren't genetically ready to live in a white society with white technology and medicine.

[@pdobos]

Saved taxpayers a lot of money…

[@brettstiltner4143]

You can just bet that cop gave that kid an order and the kid pointed the gun at the cop, now the kid is dead, end of the story, except where are the parents?

[@maxwellcrazycat9204]

This is how Tamir rice got himself shot. Even back then the police knew that kids were robbing people at gun point. It was in an area known for criminal activity.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

Thomas Michael "T. J." Lane III,[5] a 17-year-old male juvenile and former student of Chardon, who was a sophomore at Lake Academy Alternative School and used a bus in common with several victims. Lane used a .22 caliber handgun. Lane was soon arrested by police near his car parked outside the school. Lane was ultimately indicted on three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated attempted murder, and one count of felonious assault.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

A white gunman who opened fire inside a Walmart in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself may have been motivated by racist extremism, the FBI said Wednesday.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

On August 4, 2019, 24-year-old Connor Betts shot and killed nine people, including his brother,[a] and wounded 17 others near the entrance of the Ned Peppers Bar in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio.[3][6][7] Betts was fatally shot by responding police officers 32 seconds after the first shots were fired.[3][8] A total of 27 people were taken to area hospitals.[8] It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Ohio since the 1975 Easter Sunday Massacre.

[@latortugaturp8299]

You’re a lie - Bet 500$ the kid did not point the gun . ?? Cops shoot brown skin people just for breathing wrong

[@Sharauni]

I went to middle school there when the school first opened back in 93 and even then we were told not to wander off property after school if we didn't have to as the area wasn't the greatest, and once I remember being in class when we heard something that the teacher passed off as a firecracker but could have been a shot. It wasn't wholly bad, just not the safest to wander. We had a couple incidents of kids being approached by adults that gave everyone the willies, and a couple times kids got bumped by cars impatient to be slowed down after school when everyone was picking their kids up. If the 15 year old was involved in popping shots off, either at someone else or just passing time shooting things in the area, it wouldn't surprise me. I'll wait for the chest cams and the investigation to pass judgement on the cops.

[@VanaèHardesty950]

It was an alternative school back then, I went there for teenage pregnancy

[@Sharauni]

@@VanaèHardesty950 Must have been before 93, when the school reopened it was for visual and performing arts and still is today.

[@VanaèHardesty950]

@ oh okay😉 yeah it was 90 91

[@Sharauni]

@@VanaèHardesty950 Are you sure you're talking about the right school? The school closed in 1980 but reopened as Miller South School for the Visual and Performing Arts in 1993.

[@VanaèHardesty950]

@ yes the building is at VOdem and east ave

[@LemmyAuditYou]

and the protests will begin

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

Thomas Michael "T. J." Lane III,[5] a 17-year-old male juvenile and former student of Chardon, who was a sophomore at Lake Academy Alternative School and used a bus in common with several victims. Lane used a .22 caliber handgun. Lane was soon arrested by police near his car parked outside the school. Lane was ultimately indicted on three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated attempted murder, and one count of felonious assault.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

A white gunman who opened fire inside a Walmart in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself may have been motivated by racist extremism, the FBI said Wednesday.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

On August 4, 2019, 24-year-old Connor Betts shot and killed nine people, including his brother,[a] and wounded 17 others near the entrance of the Ned Peppers Bar in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio.[3][6][7] Betts was fatally shot by responding police officers 32 seconds after the first shots were fired.[3][8] A total of 27 people were taken to area hospitals.[8] It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Ohio since the 1975 Easter Sunday Massacre.

[@Sgreenenov13]

And the point of your comment is? Lol​@@sewwhatdoyouthink

[@christiandenault7606]

​@@Sgreenenov13 I think he's a bot; he's posted the same 2 identical replies on half the comments here.

[@angelohart2340]

I was out there that night they made me walk all the way around to get home I was like WTH it was crazy I came down the street right after it happened

[@davidellis4084]

Bodycam videos? I am suspicious that there is no information between "shots heard" and suspect dead. Were there actually shots? I do not know, but it is a convenient excuse if a police officer confronts someone and they end up dead. I *will* give the officers the benefit of doubt in a close situation, but I want proof it was a close situation and not another case of a police officer shooting his gun because he was "scared".

[@nuttybar9]

And it's convenient for you to always blame the cops instead of blaming the criminals.

[@butterflyblue7761]

A police officer can "confront" someone with a gun😂😂😂 The officer is the authority in that situation😂😂😂

[@trinidad111]

Baseless assumption. would you like to have some assumptions made about you? If you don't know about it, don't speak about it

[@butterflyblue7761]

@@davidellis4084 Original comment edited.

[@FeathermanServices-nq7gq]

​@@nuttybar9you mean the victim

[@DEANDRE_DTS]

RIP

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

Thomas Michael "T. J." Lane III,[5] a 17-year-old male juvenile and former student of Chardon, who was a sophomore at Lake Academy Alternative School and used a bus in common with several victims. Lane used a .22 caliber handgun. Lane was soon arrested by police near his car parked outside the school. Lane was ultimately indicted on three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated attempted murder, and one count of felonious assault.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

On August 4, 2019, 24-year-old Connor Betts shot and killed nine people, including his brother,[a] and wounded 17 others near the entrance of the Ned Peppers Bar in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio.[3][6][7] Betts was fatally shot by responding police officers 32 seconds after the first shots were fired.[3][8] A total of 27 people were taken to area hospitals.[8] It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Ohio since the 1975 Easter Sunday Massacre.

[@VanaèHardesty950]

Akron is racist tho and the black people in power don’t like their own , I moved out of town because melody Wren and CPS and apd and VA let my ex husbands family who work for child support and other systems destroy me and my kidz lives IM not gonna stop until ATONEMENT is done

[@suzizuki]

and i bet the body cams were off. did the rookie sho ot the boy? is he afraid of black persons? just who saw the gun? i wanna know..

[@The_Chosen_None_]

A 15yr old with a gun and you think cops are the problem 😂🤡

[@davidellis4084]

@@The_Chosen_None_ I think that cops should not be killing people without reason. I have seen too many videos with police executing suspects for no good reason. I am not automatically assuming that the officer was justified anymore because even of he had a gun, why was the teen shot? Americans have a constitutional right to near arm,s, and Ohio even says it does not matter how you carry them. If bodycam video shows the teen pointing a weapon at officers, their actions were likely justified. If he was running away with no drawn weapon, they were not justified. Ditto if he had a gun but was cooperating.

[@KardiFan2000]

​@@davidellis4084 Answer his question...do you not consider 15 year olds walking around with guns an issue?

[@Loosesapphire5135]

​​@@KardiFan2000because they said so, means he had a gun ? No, it doesn't in fact, when we know cops lie their asses off. They are domestic terrorists terrorizing the American people. So, prove that's untrue , which you can't, & stop deflecting with the scumbags said so it has to be true 😸 fukkbag bootlicker

[@nuttybar9]

@@The_Chosen_None_It sounds more like the Cops took care of the problem .

[@johnfitcheard7112]

Sounds like some bullshit

[@nuttybar9]

No it doesn't ,But it sounds as if the teen was into some bullshit.

[@demondawg80]

He had a rifle enough said​@@nuttybar9

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

Thomas Michael "T. J." Lane III,[5] a 17-year-old male juvenile and former student of Chardon, who was a sophomore at Lake Academy Alternative School and used a bus in common with several victims. Lane used a .22 caliber handgun. Lane was soon arrested by police near his car parked outside the school. Lane was ultimately indicted on three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated attempted murder, and one count of felonious assault.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

A white gunman who opened fire inside a Walmart in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself may have been motivated by racist extremism, the FBI said Wednesday.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

On August 4, 2019, 24-year-old Connor Betts shot and killed nine people, including his brother,[a] and wounded 17 others near the entrance of the Ned Peppers Bar in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio.[3][6][7] Betts was fatally shot by responding police officers 32 seconds after the first shots were fired.[3][8] A total of 27 people were taken to area hospitals.[8] It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Ohio since the 1975 Easter Sunday Massacre.

[@vicpetrishak7705]

Reason to not release body camera video for a week : Let things cool down Edit video Get stories straight Check sports playing record Check malfunctioning gun Looking for 50 empty casings Cop went on vacation Why are shooting target silhouettes always Black ? 😂

[@throughhellback3931]

guns aren't so fun are they?

[@jessewoody5772]

Live by the gun, die by the gun….. I’d like to know what the boys father has to say about this

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

Thomas Michael "T. J." Lane III,[5] a 17-year-old male juvenile and former student of Chardon, who was a sophomore at Lake Academy Alternative School and used a bus in common with several victims. Lane used a .22 caliber handgun. Lane was soon arrested by police near his car parked outside the school. Lane was ultimately indicted on three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of aggravated attempted murder, and one count of felonious assault.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

A white gunman who opened fire inside a Walmart in Ohio and wounded four people before killing himself may have been motivated by racist extremism, the FBI said Wednesday.

[@sewwhatdoyouthink]

On August 4, 2019, 24-year-old Connor Betts shot and killed nine people, including his brother,[a] and wounded 17 others near the entrance of the Ned Peppers Bar in the Oregon District of Dayton, Ohio.[3][6][7] Betts was fatally shot by responding police officers 32 seconds after the first shots were fired.[3][8] A total of 27 people were taken to area hospitals.[8] It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Ohio since the 1975 Easter Sunday Massacre.

[@Joel-f1s2x]

He was a boy police reform now

[@Joel-f1s2x]

The police had no business going into a black neigborhood they all got guns they can take care of their own neigborhoods

[@redbankdefense]

This comment is one of the dumbest things I've read.