This is a Yahoo article. As such, only a precursory glance will unveil the Yahooishness.
“Gebhard’s uncle, Patrick Brogan, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that his nephew had become acquainted with the officer “through a church connection” and that the two “had been arguing on Facebook about Black Lives Matter.”
Brogan added that Gebhard, who was biracial, suffered from bipolar disorder.
“Tyler was going over to fight,” Brogan said. “When he got there he was met with a gun and the guy killed him.”
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Bi-racial. That’s important to the story now. (And they say WE’RE starting a race war?)
Met at church.
Bipolar.
This is like everything they want rolled into one. Now, to actively vilify the cop.
I’m willing to bet someone will print something about the cop molesting a child to destroy that officer’s life and credibility. It’ll be disproven, but too late and on page 6.
This is the clear outline of how the media destroys the country.
These two knew each other from church, and got into an argument on Facebook about the Black Lives Matter issue. Tyler was bi-polar and had not been taking his meds, and he went out of his mind; he threatened the officer on line, then went to the house. That's when the scene got real crazy. I'm sure the officer didn't want to shoot, they were friends, after all, but Tyler was a genuine danger to himself, the officer and the family.
This is more about the dangers of mental health than anything else, but the media can't resist fanning the flames of racial divide.
The officer's family is distraught, but they know they did the right thing under the circumstances.
And the person killed was really a nice kid most of the time; a good football player, and not what you would consider a gang banger. He probably got sucked in by the race hucksters himself, and with his unwillingness to take care of himself by taking his medication, he didn't have the common sense to dismiss them.
Affton HIgh School, where Gebhard graduated from two years ago, is about 10-15% black, and they haven't had racial problems.
They’ll do everything they can to show that the cop lured the victim into the shoot.