https://www.kitv.com/news/crime/honolulu-city-council-agrees-to-settlement-of-16-year-old-boy-shot-dead-by-police/article_8cf7374c-a59c-4ccf-a29a-d507ae9a7f54.html

The officer body cam footage told the real story.  Footage the government/police tried to prevent being released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Iremamber_Sykap

“ … the car, which Sykap was driving, was linked to a crime spree over several days and that witnesses had seen the suspects with firearms less than a half hour before the police chase.

Earlier that day, they were linked to an armed home invasion.”

This thing was assaulting others from age 11.

Regrettably, this was a net win for the community, as he got himself iced before he actually killed someone.

Better to die a violent criminal, than to die a violent criminal AND murderer.

This grinds my gears.
How come nobody talks about the victims of those kids? Where is real justice?
The guy that owned the stolen car.
The folks that those kids robbed and terrorized with guns...BTW,  It doesn't matter if the gun was real or not. It's still illegal.
AFAIK, nobody tries to sue the punks or the families of these punks.

Scumbag lawyer Sietz AND the Sykap family should be required to publicly apologize to the people that they victimized.
If the courts required that the families of the punks pay restitution to the ACTUAL victims, maybe this nonsense would stop.

In that KITV story, the kid's family posted a picture of the punk in a church. Is that supposed to indicate that he was a wonderful church-going angel from heaven??

---end of rant---

This grinds my gears.
How come nobody talks about the victims of those kids? Where is real justice?
The guy that owned the stolen car.
The folks that those kids robbed and terrorized with guns...BTW,  It doesn't matter if the gun was real or not. It's still illegal.
AFAIK, nobody tries to sue the punks or the families of these punks.

Scumbag lawyer Sietz AND the Sykap family should be required to publicly apologize to the people that they victimized.
If the courts required that the families of the punks pay restitution to the ACTUAL victims, maybe this nonsense would stop.

In that KITV story, the kid's family posted a picture of the punk in a church. Is that supposed to indicate that he was a wonderful church-going angel from heaven??

---end of rant---

Just another of the steep costs of living in a blue-shithole city: My sympathies are with the cops who had to grease him and then be tortured for it, and us taxpayers.

The cops had credible information that they were armed - and obviously extremely dangerous - from the armed home invasion they just committed (photos of them, the car & license plate).

WTF were the cops to do?  Wait for incoming rounds?

It’s nauseating.

Everybody knows something is wrong nowadays where the victims of crap like this get the sh*t end of the stick.

But what can we do if we continue to vote in people who push for a more lenient stand on how to deal with criminals.  Excuses are prisons do not re-habilitate people, prisons are overcrowded, nomo money to build more prisons, courts are overwhelmed, etc. etc.

These excuses are full of shit because there are resources and money to fix the above.  It's just that it's spent on crap like climate initiatives and pay raises for the very people who give the excuses above.

We have what we have because of their blue-haired agenda.  Plain and simple.