WTF? Teen charged with murder...

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...after LEO's shoot his friend:

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.
Brandon Ross Charged With Murder After Police Fatally Shoot 15-Year-Old Companion

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This an outrageous law and an even more egregious application of such law.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
The law is stupid, but how else would it actually be applied?
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I imagine that the intended application would be for a situation in which Williams had killed the man they robbed and then they charged Ross with murder.
 
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therealUT said:
The crime they committed was robbery. Ross should definitely be tried for that offense. He did not murder anyone.
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Exactly. I wasn't there, so I can neither fault nor praise the officer for her actions... but the kid didn't deserve murder. What a stupid law.
 
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Odd thing about both stories, appears he was shot in the back. But, agree the law is weird as hell.
 
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Stupid law. And scary, scary to the point the cops can kill a person, and point the finger at someone else. Robbery is the only thing he is guilty of
 
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Slydell said:
Odd thing about both stories, appears he was shot in the back. But, agree the law is weird as hell.
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I read it as he started to turn around with a gun in his hand. Given the circumstances, I think officer shooting him was within the bounds reasonability.

Charging the accomplice with murder however, is well outside of those bounds.
 
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I must say this to all the young VN hoodlums out there: if you're going to get desperate and stupid enough to commit a crime, find a clever enough plan that won't involve a gun. When things go wrong, they go really wrong.
 
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I find it more troubling they are 16 and 15 year olds robbing someone with a gun, pointing it at a Police Officer and all momma can say is, "they could have just took him to jail".
 
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punkcat said:
I find it more troubling they are 16 and 15 year olds robbing someone with a gun, pointing it at a Police Officer and all momma can say is, "they could have just took him to jail".
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That was a weird comment.

I'm not sure how you take someone to jail who is still holding a gun, either.
 
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punkcat said:
I find it more troubling they are 16 and 15 year olds robbing someone with a gun, pointing it at a Police Officer and all momma can say is, "they could have just took him to jail".
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...it's "momma". what else is she gonna say?
 
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Why is this law on the books?? The kid didn't murder anyone, he stole something. Seems like a mafia type law to me they have on the books.
 
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g8terh8ter_eric said:
Why is this law on the books?? The kid didn't murder anyone, he stole something. Seems like a mafia type law to me they have on the books.
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It creates a diversion for trigger happy cops. The public rallies around the atrocity and stupidity of a murder charge and conveniently forgets that a cop shot a kid in the back like a coward.

The kid should be sitting in a cell for armed robbery, but thanks to vigilante justice he's in the morgue.
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bamacheats said:
It creates a diversion for trigger happy cops. The public rallies around the atrocity and stupidity of a murder charge and conveniently forgets that a cop shot a kid in the back like a coward.

The kid should be sitting in a cell for armed robbery, but thanks to vigilante justice he's in the morgue.
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Sounds like an old law to implicate mafia members that were associated with a crime, just to get them off the streets to me. I wonder how many people have actually been found guilty of this law in the past 20 years??
 
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g8terh8ter_eric said:
Sounds like an old law to implicate mafia members that were associated with a crime, just to get them off the streets to me. I wonder how many people have actually been found guilty of this law in the past 20 years??
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Even one would be too many.
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