Um, no.

Last week in Cincinnati, OH., a 14-year-old boy decided to steal a car that had been left unattended as it was warming up. Anyone who knows (or has been) a 14-year-old boy knows that this sort of decision-making is not uncommon for the species.

Well, the owner of the car decided that the way to handle this was to shoot the kid dead.

WTF? W?T?F? Worse yet, public opinion in the area was that the kid was a "thug" and had it coming to him.

Gee, do you suppose that the fact he was black and had a "funny" name might have had something to do with that opinion? Maybe just a little?

Not cool.