White man in Dallas shoots 8-year-old black boy in the face as he plays ‘tag’
White man in Dallas shoots 8-year-old black boy in the face as he plays ‘tag’
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An 8-year-old African-American boy in Texas is struggling to recover after being shot in the face by a 46-year-old white man, but authorities have not been able to determine a motive.
Dallas police said that Donald Maiden Jr., who had just celebrated his 8th birthday on Sunday, was playing tag outside his apartment complex on Tuesday. According to his grandmother, Maiden ran inside to get some toys and was shot as came back outside.
Witnesses told police that 46-year-old Brian Cloninger had been seen waiving a handgun at people prior to the shooting, The Dallas Morning News reported.
Police reports said that Cloninger was seen standing beside his pickup truck as the boy was bleeding, and a witness asked him if he shot the boy.
“Yes I shot that kid,” Cloninger reportedly said.
Maiden’s mother, Latamarin Locklin, recalled the aftermath of the shooting to KTVT on Thursday.
“When he ran in I just screamed,” she said. “His mouth was just hanging off and it was just a big hole… I just threw him on the couch and laid him in my arms and put pressure on his mouth with the towel.”
Locklin couldn’t understand why anyone would shoot her child “out of the blue.”
Maiden was in critical but stable condition as of Thursday. He still needed a breathing tube and had a plate in his jaw. He he could wink and nod to communicate, but could not talk. The boy was expected to have more surgeries after swelling from the most-recent surgeries goes down.
Cloninger was charged with injury to a child, and was being held $2.2 million dollar bond.
Take notes “charged with injury to a child” rather than attempted murder.
Smh.
WHAT THE FUCK?!
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are you fucking kidding me? that’s how it honestly got resolved???????????????????
Injury to a child………………………………..
How to tell if it was a gunshot or fireworks: gunshots don’t echo, fireworks do.
thaNK YOU SO MUCH
the fact that anyone might commonly need to know this terrifies me
clearly you’re not from america
Man shot dead by police in Walmart ‘after he picked up a toy gun’
Man shot dead by police in Walmart ‘after he picked up a toy gun’
Relatives of the man police shot and killed in an Ohio Walmart Tuesday said he was only carrying a “toy gun”…Will it ever end?
“LeeCee Johnson, who has claimed to be the mother of Mr Crawford’s two children, said she was speaking to him on the telephone when police descended on the scene.
Dayton Daily News report her as saying: ‘We was just talking. He said he was at the video games playing videos and he went over there by the toy section where the toy guns were.
‘And the next thing I know, he said “It’s not real,” and the police start shooting and they said “Get on the ground,” but he was already on the ground because they had shot him.’
‘And I could hear him just crying and screaming. I feel like they shot him down like he was not even human.’
Hopefully they release the tapes soon……
they just don’t give a fuck
Remember all the white people carrying assault rifles in target? Cause I do.
Police have yet to comment on claims but say officers acted ‘appropriately’
White people can open carry actual loaded assault rifles in Target, but a black man holds a toy in the toy section of a Wal-Mart and not only does someone call the police, not only do the police show up before he’s out of the toy section, not only do the police murder this father of two before he can react, but they receive approval from the department for doing so.
The police don’t see us as humans. They see us as animals, and they will not hesitate to kill us in cold blood. Fuck the police. There’s no such thing as a good cop.
REMEMBER ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE CARRYING ASSAULT RIFLES IN TARGET
REMEMBER ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE CARRYING ASSAULT RIFLES IN TARGET
REMEMBER ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE CARRYING ASSAULT RIFLES IN TARGET
REMEMBER ALL THE WHITE PEOPLE CARRYING ASSAULT RIFLES IN TARGET
