Close Your Eyes - Part 2

Now, I invite you, the reader, to imagine YOUR child is walking home from a store and he is on a cell phone. He sees a strange man following him. He doesn’t know if the man is a sexual predator, is going to kill him, rob him, or worse. Your child decides in a split second that this man is going to harm him and if he is going to die, he would rather go down fighting. The stranger has a gun, shoots your child, and then later calls the shooting self-defense.

Let’s further extrapolate that your child is a white boy walking, or even running, in the mornings in your neighborhood, as my friend and I do at times. Someone pulls up in a car whom your son does not know – what should your son do? The person continues to follow him and then gets out of the car and comes after your son. What do you want your son to do? Who should your son assume the person stalking him is….a murderer, pedophile, a friend, who? Does your son run, fight, get in the car with the stalker, what?

I want you to close your eyes! This incident is not over yet. Let’s further extrapolate that your son is killed. He is shot dead in the rain, lying on the cold, wet ground. To add insult to injury, no one from the police department calls you for days about the death of your son. You continually ring your son’s cell phone, but the police do not answer the phone for days. What do you really think here?