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"With African-American teens, the perception is that they are all gangbangers, or they are all packing," said Joe Brown, president of the Pasadena chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. "It does increase the instances of shoot-to-kill with law enforcement, and Pasadena is no exception."
This is how black youth are portrayed in most social media such as movies and thus has has become a social misconception, but even in this news story, it further adds to the belief;
"Another officer arrested the 17-year-old, who admitted they had stolen the backpack, Lieutenant Riddle said. The teenager, whose name has not been released by the police, has since been charged with burglary, grand theft and failure to register as a gang member, a condition of his parole, the police said."
These officers were responding to a violent attack in which they were told these young men were armed in the first part of the story "the caller said two young black men had put a gun in his face and had stolen his backpack."
IMHO, this is a tragic event, the LEO were reacting to what they believed to be truth (the young men being Armed) and the fact that the other was a known gang member (if that was known before the arrest).
I think the caller should be found guilty on the charges and the LEO's should be exonerated. They reacted how a reasonable person would have with the known information.
It is ridiculous that the Martin shooting had to be brought up in this story...there is no correlation other than it happened to a black youth! Gotta keep the proverbial fuel on the fire!