So many questions about Adam Toledo

[Bettie]

43. So, you think that he deserved to die?

I've heard comments like yours about poor neighborhoods like that.

It's common. Was he a punk? Maybe.

He had his hands up. They were empty. The cop shot him to death.

You can say "It was 100% his fault, because he was a punk!" or you can say "No humans involved" or even get into the right wing "Vermin, they are all vermin!"

But, the fact is, this kid was 13 years old and my best guess it that it was a hard 13 years. Not everyone has the advantages of a middle class family and a safe neighborhood.

In the end, cops find some lives more valuable than others.

The very least I can do is give benefit of the doubt to the victim, since most everyone else gives it solely to the cops.