Has the dad weighed in yet?
Dad is on lockdown this month.
Good question but I have a feeling you know the answer already.
Yes, you are of course correct, the kid likely had either a deadbeat dad or a worthless dad. This is a cause for compassion, not hatred. The kid had many strikes against him, lived in the ghetto, had no part-time job, no dad, no one who loved him. What would you have done? How would you have turned out? Instead of being cynical and hopeless, start wrestling with how do we turn this devastation around? How do we teach men to think about something other than their own gratification and start to behave in the way a father really should, protecting and providing? This kid would likely have had a better chance if he had a father to protect and provide instead of being flung out to seek his fortune on the mean drug infested streets of some cold city.
The irony is that in situations like this “men” who ran from the responsibility of raising and supporting the sons they fathered, are likely to show up to try to get some wrongful death suit money and some TV time with Al and Jesse.