A news story came out a few days ago that had a robber at a Philadelphia pizza joint strangling the woman who owned the place… and the robber getting shot in the face by the womans 14-year-old son (who had retrieved a pistol from under the counter) as a result. Video footage has come out and…. that’s not what happened. There was a robber to be sure; he was digging into the till for money and *not* strangling anyone when the kid pulled the pistol from his waistband (possibly) and capped the thief. The other employees at the store signed off on the original story, as did the cops, and no charges were filed.
“The Amazing Lucas,” who sadly has been getting sucked into the social justice rabbithole and losing his amazingness in the process, discusses this in the video below… and includes the security camera footage of the incident. The incident is, to be blunt, a thing of beauty. A worthless human decides to rob a place, rather than get a job; he catches a bullet to the face for his troubles. And nothing of value was lost except, undoubtedly, a whole lot of taxpayer dollars since he *didn’t* actually die and will now be patched up on the public dime rather than yeeted across the border (*any* border) with a trebuchet. Reasonable people will look at the video and conclude that the kids actions are entirely justified; indeed, he should be rewarded by the city government for good citizenship and *reasonably* good aim, as well as remaining functionally calm under pressure. But Philadelphia seems unlikely to be a reasonable place. The fact that the pizza joint was brazenly robbed like this fully explains and justifies the kids decision to pack heat (the video is hard to parse just before the actual shooting; the kids hands flash about wildly and he *may* have grabbed the pistol from under the counter, and what looks like him pulling it from his waist is actually him futzing with the holster the gun was kept in), but doubtless the local DA would view that as an opportunity for a show trial of the *kid* rather than the actual criminal.
It seems the kid, his mom, the other employees and the cops all lied in order to protect someone who *should* have been lauded. This is where we are. Sigh.