“[Charles Riley, 16, and Jasean Francis, 17,] were with their friend. They’d just gone to a mall. They know the neighborhood. They don’t ever go out to the neighborhood because it’s so dangerous,” [Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Brendan] Deenihan said Sunday.
But on that one occasion, the boys asked just that once if they could go down to the corner store and buy some candy.
They walked into the store and saw Battle there, noticing he was quite tall and saying they hoped to be that tall someday.
They walked into the store and saw Battle there, noticing he was quite tall and saying they hoped to be that tall someday.
Battle has three previous arrests, according to Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Brendan Deenihan.
As the two victims and their friend walked home from the alley, the shots rang out, Deenihan said. He had said previously that the gunman ran up and shot and killed them “for no reason.”


Anyone going to march for them? There are some bad cops, but for every Tamir Rice who get killed by cops, how many good kids like these two boys are getting shot or killed every weekend in South Side, Chicago by scum like Laroy Battle?
You know George Floyd was behind the wheel of a car described as drunk when the call came into the police. People say he was arrested over a $20 bill, in fact he was under the influence too and in the driver seat of a car, refusing to get out. He was intoxicated on fetanyl and a little bit of meth, or colloquially known as speedball. That's in the autopsy report. And contrary to popular myth, he did not choke to death, he died because of a combination of things that resulted in heart failure, and the way the police restrained him did in fact play a role in that.
They parade his image around almost like he's a saint, a martyr. The dude was trying to turn his life around and I can respect that, but he was lapsing and his history shows he was no saint. What happened to him was bad, but if his death is spotlighted, then why aren't the deaths of Charles Riley and Jasean Francis being spotlighted?
People are worried about the cops, but imagine living in a neighborhood where your kids can't even go down the street to buy candy without risking their lives because of scum like Laroy Battle. And no amount of counselors are going to help Laroy. He should been kept in a cage, not put on probation, and if he had been, these two boys would still be alive.


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