- Neighbors and friends of Steven Rosenthal said Saturday that authorities’ account of the 16-year-old shooting himself while running from police in Lawndale was out of character for the Crane High School basketball player.
Rosenthal died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in the Friday evening encounter, officials said. According to Chicago police, officers spotted him with a gun and tried to stop him about 6:55 p.m. near his home in the 1500 block of South Keeler.
Rosenthal ran away, and then “tragically used the weapon on himself,” CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi tweeted after the shooting.
The ignorance on display here is amazing, astounding even. How do these people (or folks) remember to breathe on their own? WGN couldn't wait to find someone who wasn't there cast aspersions on the police:
- But people gathering at the scene disputed the police account Friday night. Friends said just moments before, Rosenthal had been dancing and getting ready for a party.
“He went through the back of the gangway to get some water,” Rosenthal’s friend, Sherman Baker, said. “They shot him and that’s when they pointed the gun at us and we ran.”
We're told social media is awash with all sorts of bullshit, fiction and outright lies from people who heard someone who heard who....you get the picture.
And what are these assholes (the so-called "witnesses" and the #fakenews media) going to say when the autopsy report shows powder burns in his mouth and the bullet exited the top of his head? We're going to see an entire week worth of retractions and apologies? Maybe a day of coverage? Or probably nothing at all?
And what are these assholes (the so-called "witnesses" and the #fakenews media) going to say when the autopsy report shows powder burns in his mouth and the bullet exited the top of his head? We're going to see an entire week worth of retractions and apologies? Maybe a day of coverage? Or probably nothing at all?
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