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His father, imprisoned. His mother, more of a “big sister.”
Interviews with friends and family of Thomas “TJ” Siderio depict a nomadic, and oftentimes chaotic, home life for the 12-year-old boy who died earlier this month after being shot by police. He could be seen riding around neighborhoods such as Pennsport and Girard Estates on his bicycle, visiting friends or family scattered across a wide swath of South Philadelphia. Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw, who has begun the process of terminating the officer responsible, referred to TJ’s life as “a tragedy before it ended,” and said that “we as a society have failed him.”
Our columnist Helen Ubiñas writes that Outlaw’s rhetoric wrongly puts the blame on the community for failing TJ, while absolving what some believe was yet againOur reporters William Bender, Rodrigo Torrejón, and Ryan W. Briggs take a look at TJ’s upbringing and just how much of it was
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