RE: The gunman pistol-whipped a male customer before punching a female manager in the face.
(Dead girl gave him the cash and did what he told her but he turned and shot her dead anyway....)
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Some mother is going to say “He was basically a good boy, though.”
As: The alleged deliberate killer by car running into Christmas parade crowd at the Wisconsin celebration moaned: “Everybody in the news is trying to paint me as a villain.” Poor baby. /S
"Only a lad. You really can't blame him."
"Only a lad. Society made him."
"Only a lad. He's our responsibility."
Oh, oh, oohh oh oh oh
"Only a lad. He really couldn't help it."
"Only a lad. He didn't want to do it."
"Only a lad. He's underprivileged and abused."
Perhaps a little bit confused?
My all time favorite (if you can call it that) was when 2 brothers were shot dead by a man they were trying to rob and a relative protested that ‘they wuz jes’ tryin’ tuh git money for clothes’.
some FReeper will say the same thing- not his fault, things have been tough for black people.