Thomas Siderio Jr., 12, was shot and killed by Philadelphia police on March 2.
According to reports, he was fleeing police when he was shot in the back. Typically, such a story would be front-page news. There would be national outrage, widespread media coverage, protests, and riots. Except, in this case, the 12-year-old victim was white.
Because of Siderio’s race — most people shot by the police are white, by the way — you most likely haven’t heard about this incident. Thomas Siderio Jr. will not be a nationally recognized name. Such is the case anytime there are white victims of police shootings. If the truth were reported, it would shatter the fallacy that blacks are the victims of a systemically racist, white supremacist U.S. police force.
Approximately twice as many white people are killed by police each year than black people — armed and unarmed. Can you name even one of the white decedents? For example, you’ve heard of George Floyd, but you probably never heard of Tony Timpa. The unarmed white victims of police shootings, such as Thomas Siderio, don’t provide any fuel for the Democratic faux outrage machine. They don’t get body camera footage shown on news networks throughout the country. Their deaths are usually ignored by Democrats, the Left, and their accomplices in the media.
Furthermore, compare Siderio’s death to the police shooting of Walter Wallace, a black man killed by police in Philadelphia in October 2020 after attacking them with a weapon. Police killed Wallace after they responded to a call about a domestic disturbance. Wallace exited his house carrying a knife and walked toward the police officers who arrived at the scene. As Wallace approached, the police officers kept backing away, pleading for him to drop his weapon — but he refused. Police eventually fired at Wallace and killed him. The incident made national news and led to protests, rioting, and looting in Philadelphia. Yet, in Siderio’s case, a 12-year-old boy being shot, there was no such outrage.
The racial inconsistencies do not just end there. A Google search for Wallace’s incident will show his race is listed in many headlines and all news stories. However, a Google search for Siderio will only reveal headlines about a 12-year-old boy shot by police. Siderio’s race is not listed in any headlines and rarely in any stories. Why? Because race is only mentioned when the victim is black so police can be vilified as racists. This is done to amplify fallacious claims of white supremacy and systemic racism. This indoctrination has been successful, as a survey from Skeptic Research Center revealed people massively overestimated the number of black people killed each year by police officers.
There are conflicting reports as to whether Siderio was armed. Police believe he fired a gun at them while they were sitting in a car, saying the bullet shattered the back window and injured one of the officers. Siderio and another boy were running away when the police returned fire. Like the Wallace case, police only used their guns when they felt threatened. Whether Wallace or Siderio, white or black — anyone using weapons against police could lead to that person being killed. The police’s job is to serve and protect. It is not to be shot by criminals to prove they are compassionate, woke, and not racist. Only woke activists, social justice warriors, and Black Lives Matter acolytes think differently.
Siderio was killed a hop, skip, and a jump from where I live, and I wasn’t even aware of the incident until a week after it happened. Had he not been white, I assure you that would not have been the case. Because he was white, there weren’t any protests (and thankfully, no rioting or looting) in Philadelphia. Because he was white, there weren’t any “#sayhisname” campaigns on social media. The Philadelphia 76ers did not link arms, kneel, or threaten to boycott before any of their games in response to Siderio’s death.
Why? Siderio’s death didn’t matter because he was white. Accurately reporting the number of white victims would destroy the foundation of the social justice movement in the country. Their efforts are only kept alive by ensuring the public remains ignorant of facts and truth. Once the people know the truth, the house of cards in which the U.S. social justice cartel is built will crumble.
