Teen Killed for Legend Blue Jordan XI

It's sad to say but if at 16yrs old you are willing to put yourself in a life or death situation for sneakers it probably was a wrap for you potential wise.
 
CashBanks said:
They should only release these shoes online.
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This would make them even more difficult for people without credit/debit cards to buy the sneakers, in turn making them even more limited.

The only thing that JB has done is to move the releases to the weekend so that kids wouldn't skip school to buy them. Other than that they've just been watching demand rise due to the all the negative press surrounding these releases.

JB should simply Increase production numbers, and schedule restocks at regular intervals.
 
ArrowCollarMan said:
 
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NO sympathy for thieves but man, I wonder if this would go on today if these sneakers weren't so damn limited.

Another L for OHIO
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so damn limited??? lol u sure 
 
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AirUpHere23 said:
that's an assumption, not a fact. If he truly "knew" the difference between right and wrong, he wouldn't have attempted to rob the dude for his kicks. It was his choice and he paid for it with his life..obviously not a person who "knew" better.
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disagree, he thought he could probably get away with it, which is why he attempted it. i think every sane person knows that robbing someone is wrong, its the position ppl are in which causes them to not care about doing wrong. in this case he wanted the shoes sooooo bad that he did the wrong thing
 
I hate the legend blues name lol they'll always be colombias to me !!

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AirUpHere23 said:
yes because nobody at age 16 has ANY remote chance to change for the better as they mature with age...:rolleyes
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That is such a cop out! Saying that kids do dumb things doesn't apply to a lot of these situations. Kids doing dumb this is: shoplifting, tagging public wall and buildings, getting in fights at school. Getting a gun and deciding to rob someone tells me that this "KID" has a thought process that is beyond that of a "CHILD". A 16 year old knows what a gun can do. Some kids can overcome mistakes that are made in their past, but having the gumption to brandish a gun on another human being in an attempt to rob them, that "KID" was already on the wrong path towards an adulthood filled with similar situations. if he would have been successful, that would have just reinforced that he made the right decision and that he would always be able to get what he wanted with the use of a gun.

We need to stop making excuses for these "KIDS". Like I said before, you want to play in the big leagues, you better be prepared for big league rules.
 
I abhor any loss of life. I'm in the life preservation business so to see a kid lose his life over something so insignificant as a pair of sneakers is terrible. He made a horrible decision and now his family has to live with the consequences. When you're a teenager you're impetuous. You make stupid, ill thought, irrational decisions. Most of us live through them. Unfortunately, this young man didn't. I also feel sorry for the shooter. I don't know how old he is but it would kill me to take a life over a shoe. In my 20s, I wouldn't have thought about it twice. In fact, I used to carry a gun when I used to pick up shoes. Now? Man take them. If you're willing to risk your life over a pair of Jordans then they're obviously more important to you than they are to me. I would rather give you the shoes than take your life over my shoes. Conscience couldn't let me do it. I know. I know. Charmin soft:lol:
 
I'm glad they popped his dumb ***. I hope anyone who follows suit gets the same results.

Dude failed on soooooooooo many levels, he was no longer needed on this earth.
 
I'm sorry but they're some things that you know just NOT to do. Sticking your hand in the garbage disposal, jumping off a building, I don't know .......ROBBERY, are among some of them. That's not a maturity thing, that's something else
 
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ArrowCollarMan said:
 
Limited enough in theory that this kid wasn't able to buy a pair and had at resort to robbing someone for a pair.
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nope, kid must not have tried any other options and decided he was gon be able to get em for free.

he tried one lineup for the shoe...never heard of raffles, unclaimed pairs, online, fcfs, trade, etc
 
Dude tried to rob someone over something made for $25 in China :lol:
No sympathy from me
 
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LowestFormOfWit said:
 
There is something fishy about this story. The kid had a gun pulled out and pointed at someone, but the concealed carry permit holder had time to take out his gun and fire. No shots were fired by the kid.

I don't think any guns were initially pointed at anyone, probably tucked in his waist band and shown to the older men.

I think the permit holder just wanted an excuse to kill someone.
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exactly 

no way i pull my **** out first and end getting smoked.
 
In all states Jabbar's teenage accomplices could actually get charged with his murder. If someone dies when you're doing a crime because of that crime, and you were an accomplice, you are guilty for his murder, not the man who shot in self defense. 

Hopefully they throw the book at these kids. 
 
Diego said:
I understand the dude got what's coming to him and while most of you guys also seem to feel that way, some of y'all going overboard like y'all celebrating his death.

Some of y'all favorite rappers that y'all be suckin off done worse than try to rob someone at gunpoint.

I get it, dude did the right thing by defending himself.
But to the dudes acting like this is something to celebrate, it's kinda lame.
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One more dangerous, moral-less criminal off the streets. Society is safer now, so what's not to celebrate? 
 
KILL MOVES said:
exactly 

no way i pull my **** out first and end getting smoked.
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I'm sure the 16 year old never fired a weapon in his life, and the adult that killed him had training before this incident. Stuff like this happens all the time when a robber pulls a gun in front of a trained victim
 
Since when has celebrating death been the cool thing to do? Any violent loss of human life is a tragedy. It hurts that people think this way. Yeah its ****** up that the kid had to attempt an armed robbery and every man has a right to defend himself but we shouldn't applaud the death of a child due to either bad parenting, negligence & hyper materialism or even just being influenced by the wrong crowd. It's all tragic.
 
JayPiff said:
Since when has celebrating death been the cool thing to do? Any violent loss of human life is a tragedy. It hurts that people think this way. Yeah its ****** up that the kid had to attempt an armed robbery and every man has a right to defend himself but we shouldn't applaud the death of a child due to either bad parenting, negligence & hyper materialism or even just being influenced by the wrong crowd. It's all tragic.
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it's a tragedy all around.  the dude who killed him was well within his means and his actions were justified.

that kids stupid actions were the cause of his death, but it sucks someone died over bs like this.  

like i said earlier, it must suck to start your day being business as usual, and go home that night knowing that you killed a person.  yeah that person screwed up big time by trying rob someone but its no coming back from death.  when someone pulls a gun on you its either a kill or be killed situation. the dude has no reason to regret his actions given the circumstances, but knowing you killed a person seems like something tough to live with regardless if it was warranted or not.

i feel for that kids family as well though. maybe their lack of parenting failed him or maybe they were decent parents who tried but it was hopeless once their son started running with the wrong crowd.  who knows either way, but having to plan your childs funeral must suck.  i can't even really get mad at them for saying, "he was a good kid" either.  that's going to be that mothers baby regardless and that's how most mothers are.  terrible situation all around though.
 
Thank goodness the victim wasn't a white cop.  There would be outrage, protests, riots.
 
Animal Thug said:
It was because of the shoes, fam. There wouldn't of been any "pulling out the gun" if it wasn't for the Jays.
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I doubt it.... It could have been any other monetary item like a new Iphone or a designer coat, doesn't matter in history this has been going on long before jordans were ever made.

I have no sympathy for people who rob.
 
It's funny to see the celebration in this thread for the robber killed by a civilian defending himself and then go to the other thread and dudes calling for the officer to have shot this other robbers hand to disable him.
How there were other things the officer could've done to get the situation under control.

Dudes can't even be consistent with what they believe in.
 
Diego said:
It's funny to see the celebration in this thread for the robber killed by a civilian defending himself and then go to the other thread and dudes calling for the officer to have shot this other robbers hand to disable him.
How there were other things the officer could've done to get the situation under control.

Dudes can't even be consistent with what they believe in.
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Did he try to rob a cop? I don't know how ones views can be consistent when one is discussing two totally different situations. It's like comparing apples and oranges.
 
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CashBanks said:
They should only release these shoes online at this point.

What kind of dummy commits an armed robbery for sneakers it's never that serious especially for some poor quality Jordan's that youll be able to get no problem 2-3mobths from now after a restock for the same 200$

I'd be so damn ashamed if my kid died doing some **** like this.

Parents dropped the ball.

Sad story.
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