Local activists have latched onto the death of Cole Turner, a 15-year-old shot dead by Bloomington Police after pointing a handgun at responding officers, and they are trying to make it some sort of cause célèbre. This despite the fact that the investigation continues and where bodycam video will be released sooner or later.
Cole Turner wanted to become an attorney and prosecutor.
Yeah, it’s hard to go to law school when your high school career involves expulsion from public school, failing out of the alternative school at the ripe old age of 15. And a police standoff.
Then again, he didn’t have much of a role model in a missing father. Or a mother and her extensive criminal history involving theft, retail theft, criminal damage and promoting prostitution. Her driving wasn’t much better. Who knows if she got her license back after it was suspended and then revoked. She didn’t let that stop her from driving though. She racked up multiple driving on revoked charges.
Let’s be honest here: It surely appears that mom’s looking for a nice ghetto lottery payment from the City of Bloomington. So she’s milking her son’s death for all it’s worth while she can.
Because if she can’t get that settlement inked before the bodycam comes out, Cole’s death will become meaningless to her future wealth.
This Sunday, some of the usual suspects and naive kids turned out to demand “justice” for Cole Turner.
A crowd of about 70 supporters of Cole L. M. Turner and his family marched to the Bloomington Police Department on Sunday in protest of his death.
Again, don’t be brandishing a gun in public. Particularly as a 15-year-old. Don’t be tellin’ your peers that you’re going to take care of some business with that gun after you show it to them. (Sounds almost threatening, doesn’t it?)
Even more importantly, don’t be raising it towards officers who are telling you to stop and show your hands.
Bloomington Police fatally shot Turner in response to a call about an armed suspect in the 700 block of Fairmont Drive on Feb. 25. Turner, of Normal, died from multiple gunshot wounds, according to the McLean County coroner.
Nice writing WGLT, but what do you expect from government-funded media. He got fatally shot because he posed an imminent threat to innocent life. In this case, presenting a handgun towards police.
I’m just damn thankful he didn’t stroll three blocks east into a park full of kids on a handicapped-accessible playground where me and my kids were at just a few minutes before. That Rollingbrook park and the $2M+ Harmony Park playground are effectively my back yard. Literally, as the kids like to say today. We’d walked back to the house to welcome mom home from work when I heard the shots that ended this kid’s life.
Thinking about this some more… was Cole on the way to that playground within Rollingbrook Park just three blocks away to “take care of some business” by slaughtering a bunch of children to gain fame as the next mass murderer? It was packed with scores of kids and families enjoying the unseasonably warm weather.
He did reportedly tell some peers that he might die later in the day. In fact, one source related that Cole said he “expected” to die later that day.
Turner’s family was in attendance, including his mother, Kelsey Woodrum. She said the grief she has dealt with because of his death and funeral has only become more difficult.
And the father?
“It actually got much harder after the funeral. I didn’t realize it was all going to hit me more after that time,” she said. “I laid him to rest, and now his body is going to be gone forever.”
Woodrum said the only thing she believes she can do now for her son is to fight for him.
Where were you the first 15 years? If she had worked this hard in his more formative years we wouldn’t be having this conversation, now would we?
“I can’t just cower away and act like nothing happened or anything like that. This is my child and I’m going to do whatever I can,” she said.
A day late and a dollar short.
Woodrum said the protest was only one way of fighting for him and that those who support Turner have multiple ways they can show that.
“It’s very important to him and to me that for just people to show their face here today. To just even show that they care,” she said. “You don’t even have to do the march, you don’t have to do the protest. Driving by, waving, you know, offering support, donations, anything like that it’s all wonderful, it’s all acceptable.”
Woodrum said Turner was her “wild child.” He loved the warm weather, being outdoors and playing basketball with his friends, his mother said. She also described him as a smart and selfless young man, saying that everyone was his friend.
Smart? Show us the receipts. Show us his straight As at the RAS – Regional Alternative School. Oh, the dog ate them. I hate it when that happens.
What Woodrum stressed most of all about her son is that he was still a child — a 15-year-old who made mistakes like everyone else. At the time of his death, Turner was attending the Regional Alternative School in Bloomington.
We all make mistakes. He was no child. He was well on his way to adulthood. And you’re no less dead if a 15-year-old shoots you than if a 21-year-old murders you.
Unlawfully toting a gun around as a 15-year-old isn’t a mistake. It’s a crappy life choice that brings about serious consequences sooner or later. Waving a gun around in public as a 15-year-old is another seriously crappy life-choice. One his mother should have taught him better than to do.
And not following lawful directives of police? That one usually won’t work well for you. But Cole was well versed in dealing with police. He had a lot of experience there. But he didn’t listen.
“As far as his issues in life, we were working through them. We were in therapy, he’s been through a lot of trauma in his life … he was doing much better with everything, he was on the right path,” she said. “Everybody makes mistakes, but if we could all just, you know, put the hate down for a second and realize that Cole is, was a 15-year-old child … he’s just like everybody else.”
No, your kid was a menace to society. THANK GOD Bloomington PD dealt with him when they did, where they did. Because if he had pulled that crap endangering innocents in my presence, I might have had to do the dirty work of engaging him. I don’t get paid to do that.
But make no mistake, I’m not going to sit idly by and watch some shitbird murder a bunch of toddlers and children in my presence uncontested. That’s just not gonna happen, even if using deadly force is very messy even when done righteously, ethically and legally.
The protest was organized by the local group Punks Against Tyranny led by co-founder Oriah Matich, a sophomore at Normal West High School. She described the group as a grassroots movement dedicated to mutual aid and community benefit.
Oh brother. “Punks Against Tyranny.” Led by a 15- or 16-year-old. What a joke. Are we supposed to do anything besides smile and nod politely to her ravings?
“We are here for justice for Cole. We believe that severe injustice was done to that boy, and we believe that he deserves justice,” she said.
She doesn’t even know what she doesn’t know. In the firearm training community, we call that unconscious incompetence.
Matich was connected with the family and once she met Woodrum, they planned the protest together and the family’s input was key.
“I met Kelsey through Cole’s girlfriend who found out about the protest and reached out to me … so me and Kelsey started talking and they’ve been a huge help with this entire protest-planning process,” she said. “We put it all together with the family in mind and with the family in cahoots with us.”
Together, Punks Against Tyranny and Turner’s family made a list of demands they had for the Bloomington Police Department including the release of body cam footage, all internal communications, and the names of the officers involved.
Demands? LOL. Or what? Are you going to have another inconsequential “protest”?
Here’s a song for you, sweetheart:
“So regardless of what comes out about what happened with Cole and why it happened, we want ultimately for the BPD to come out and say what they’re going to do to make sure this doesn’t happen again,” Matich said.
They won’t do that. Because if you point a gun at a cop, he has every right to defend himself or herself. And say what you want about Bloomington cops, they’re pretty decently trained. Compared to a 15-year-old aspiring thug waving a gun in public acting like he’s the biggest bully on the block, they are master gunfighters. And then there’s the body armor, police radios to instantly summon more gun-toting help, and hundreds of hours of training including force-on-force.
Some dumbass flunking out of alternative school might think he’s going to gun down a couple of trained cops and escape from an armed confrontation unscathed? That’s about as wishful thinking as Cole Turner thinking he’s going to become a prosecutor.
Again, thank heavens the police encountered him where they did and not a defenseless family. Or heaven forbid, if Cole really was on his way to that nearby playground to murder some youngsters to gain immortality and fame as the nation’s next mass murderer.
As the group marched from the McLean County Museum of History to the Bloomington Police Department, they brandished signs, chants and speeches all in support of Turner and his family.
Malcontents going to malcontent.
The protesters were not able to speak with any police officers during their march. The Bloomington Police Department has referred all media inquiries about the case to Illinois State Police, which is leading the investigation — a standard when local police use deadly force.
Cole got his justice. Served up hot and ready, just like Little Caesar’s pizza.
17 thoughts on “‘JUSTICE FOR COLE’? Was Cole Turner on his way to Harmony Park to become the next mass murderer?”
Wow. I checked out the website this morning for the first time in a few days and saw this. Glad you and your kids are okay. Even if this kid wasn’t intent on mass murder, he had a gun in public. At 15. I carried a .410 shotgun by myself much younger than 15 but it was in the woods outside a rural community, looking for critters to shoot. Carrying a handgun in a city the size of Bloomington in a residential neighborhood? He was looking for trouble. And he found it. If the city settles for a nickel they are as dumb as Brandon Johnson in Chicago.
First, John I’m glad you and your boys are okay.
Sooo Cole was 15. Mother, or more appropriate in this case, birthing person, is responsible for Cole. Where did Cole get the gun? Who paid for the gun and ammo? Did mama know he had the gun? If so, why didn’t mama lock the gun up? Did Cole or mama have a FOID card? Mama needs to be answering for this not the police. IMO mama is responsible for every bit of this. She needs to face the consequences of being an unfit mother and allowing her boy to be a parasite on society. Police need to charge her for the ammo they had to use. No payday for an unfit mother. Sounds like she needs to be a project for the police.
Good questions that need to be answered. Where did Cole get the firearms? Stolen? Illegally obtained?
These are important questions that should be addressed. Maybe we will never know, but I guarantee someone does, law enforcement probably already knows and are actively pursuing whatever the case was.
Cole was begging for help in his aggressive attempt as a young boy, and his family never got it for him. They failed him and now the guilt of that is causing them to caste shame upon society. Coles family instead depended on the “system” to raise him instead of taking responsibility themselves, failures to intervene in this young boys life and lack of discipline puts tremendous stress on a young child’s mental health.
He was left to his own devices and at such a young age, possible mental health issues, peer pressures, unknown environmental conditions, and other societal stressors (possible drugs) ultimately lead to this young man’s death.
Parents must raise their children, discipline and care for them not allow them to disrespect themselves, others and especially their own parents and family members. Economics has nothing to do with raising well mannered, educated, and successful children.
John – how could you be so callous and cruel?!? We ALL know that a 15 year old criminal’s life is more important than yours, your kids, and the visitors in the park that day – COMBINED. For you to pretend otherwise just reeks of “White Privilege”!
(sarcasm off)
As for the protestors (not the “mother”), do you think they are going with the “Ignorance is bliss” theme, or are they in the “Don’t care what really happened, we’re just in it to make a buck” camp?
Brother am I glad you are ok. I still have the text message from that day, where you sent a note saying. “Just heard possible gunshots not far.” Paraphrasing.
Then found out this was the event in question. You and the boys were at the park, other families as well, beautiful day interrupted by the sounds of (bam, bam, bam, Brrt). Your ears perk up and situational awareness goes up to “LEVEL Red”. But you have to stay calm for the boys and reassure them everything is just fine.
Thankfully, our men in Blue were able to stop a potential mass casualty event. It definitely had all the hallmarks. Intentions were rumored to friends, capability, history, and location. The officers, regardless of the exact nature of the circumstances, reacted to a sudden and volatile, split second decision that no one can arm-chair quarter back, that wasn’t there. All the Adrenaline, training, raw emotions, perception, and stimuli focused on one individual, who created the entire situation himself.
It will all be ok. Lord Trump is erasing trans people. It’s about time too! I wasn’t able to drink Bud Light out of fear it would threaten my masculinity. If company wants to put a picture of a cross on a can it’s business rights. But if a company wants to put someone named Dylan wearing lipstick on their can the rules flip because the world revolves around me. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me
Trump isn’t erasing trans people he’s just ending flipping everything upside down for the .000000000015 % of the population that is trans. The election results tell us what America wanted and was getting tired of. If a beer company wants to put Dylan on a can that’s freedom, if nobody buys it and sales tank that shows how much people like the trans movement. real simple stuff here.
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It’s always “all about Alex” or is it Alexia/Alexa? WHO CARES??!! Dylan mul-vainy (you’re so vain, you probLy think this song is about YOU YOU, YOU) on a can of bugg-lite earned the name of “tranny-fluid” and a major marketing idiocy that bugg-lite has yet to recover from, imagine that, go “woke, go broke” if you can’t understand your primary market beer drinkers. too bad, sooo sad.
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No worries, … jbotch will try, convict, and crucify. Thank goodness we have upstanding citizens like jbotch!
I scrolled all the way to the bottom to start with the most recent comment first and as I worked my way up I started reading One backwards and then I realized without any thought whatsoever that it was from that drooling idiot gsl1589. That guy’s just a broken record and boring as sin!
I didn’t even have to see the poster’s name to see to realize that it was he. You need a new Trope, dog.
Like Alexa/Alexia above, “it’s all about kenny-boy” the un-master-un-minded mentally deficient moron that just comments his bowel-drivel to stink up this site. Pathetic pile that he is.
See what I mean!
and kenny-boy proves my point, (see above post)…kenny-boy ‘cannot understand normal thinking’ (c u n t) because he “tries” reading “backwards” “(“I started reading One backwards”) and (he)…”realized without any thought whatsoever”; because he is not capable of rational thought…and he declares it for the world to read…he really is a mental midget moron, by his own personal statements.
It is soooo easy, kenny-boy, you do it to yourself!!!!HAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!
Oh, the “sperm donor”? his mommy might not know “who” the SD is, apparently no “influence” on miscreation’s life, at least no positive influence, jmho.
Wow. I checked out the website this morning for the first time in a few days and saw this. Glad you and your kids are okay. Even if this kid wasn’t intent on mass murder, he had a gun in public. At 15. I carried a .410 shotgun by myself much younger than 15 but it was in the woods outside a rural community, looking for critters to shoot. Carrying a handgun in a city the size of Bloomington in a residential neighborhood? He was looking for trouble. And he found it. If the city settles for a nickel they are as dumb as Brandon Johnson in Chicago.
Kids are a gift and a proactive responsibility (Proverbs 22:6).
To John: Thank-goodness you & kids were protected in an IL GFZ! (Sarc.)
First, John I’m glad you and your boys are okay.
Sooo Cole was 15. Mother, or more appropriate in this case, birthing person, is responsible for Cole. Where did Cole get the gun? Who paid for the gun and ammo? Did mama know he had the gun? If so, why didn’t mama lock the gun up? Did Cole or mama have a FOID card? Mama needs to be answering for this not the police. IMO mama is responsible for every bit of this. She needs to face the consequences of being an unfit mother and allowing her boy to be a parasite on society. Police need to charge her for the ammo they had to use. No payday for an unfit mother. Sounds like she needs to be a project for the police.
Good questions that need to be answered. Where did Cole get the firearms? Stolen? Illegally obtained?
These are important questions that should be addressed. Maybe we will never know, but I guarantee someone does, law enforcement probably already knows and are actively pursuing whatever the case was.
Cole was begging for help in his aggressive attempt as a young boy, and his family never got it for him. They failed him and now the guilt of that is causing them to caste shame upon society. Coles family instead depended on the “system” to raise him instead of taking responsibility themselves, failures to intervene in this young boys life and lack of discipline puts tremendous stress on a young child’s mental health.
He was left to his own devices and at such a young age, possible mental health issues, peer pressures, unknown environmental conditions, and other societal stressors (possible drugs) ultimately lead to this young man’s death.
Parents must raise their children, discipline and care for them not allow them to disrespect themselves, others and especially their own parents and family members. Economics has nothing to do with raising well mannered, educated, and successful children.
John – how could you be so callous and cruel?!? We ALL know that a 15 year old criminal’s life is more important than yours, your kids, and the visitors in the park that day – COMBINED. For you to pretend otherwise just reeks of “White Privilege”!
(sarcasm off)
As for the protestors (not the “mother”), do you think they are going with the “Ignorance is bliss” theme, or are they in the “Don’t care what really happened, we’re just in it to make a buck” camp?
John,
Brother am I glad you are ok. I still have the text message from that day, where you sent a note saying. “Just heard possible gunshots not far.” Paraphrasing.
Then found out this was the event in question. You and the boys were at the park, other families as well, beautiful day interrupted by the sounds of (bam, bam, bam, Brrt). Your ears perk up and situational awareness goes up to “LEVEL Red”. But you have to stay calm for the boys and reassure them everything is just fine.
Thankfully, our men in Blue were able to stop a potential mass casualty event. It definitely had all the hallmarks. Intentions were rumored to friends, capability, history, and location. The officers, regardless of the exact nature of the circumstances, reacted to a sudden and volatile, split second decision that no one can arm-chair quarter back, that wasn’t there. All the Adrenaline, training, raw emotions, perception, and stimuli focused on one individual, who created the entire situation himself.
It will all be ok. Lord Trump is erasing trans people. It’s about time too! I wasn’t able to drink Bud Light out of fear it would threaten my masculinity. If company wants to put a picture of a cross on a can it’s business rights. But if a company wants to put someone named Dylan wearing lipstick on their can the rules flip because the world revolves around me. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me
Trump isn’t erasing trans people he’s just ending flipping everything upside down for the .000000000015 % of the population that is trans. The election results tell us what America wanted and was getting tired of. If a beer company wants to put Dylan on a can that’s freedom, if nobody buys it and sales tank that shows how much people like the trans movement. real simple stuff here.
It’s always “all about Alex” or is it Alexia/Alexa? WHO CARES??!! Dylan mul-vainy (you’re so vain, you probLy think this song is about YOU YOU, YOU) on a can of bugg-lite earned the name of “tranny-fluid” and a major marketing idiocy that bugg-lite has yet to recover from, imagine that, go “woke, go broke” if you can’t understand your primary market beer drinkers. too bad, sooo sad.
No worries, … jbotch will try, convict, and crucify. Thank goodness we have upstanding citizens like jbotch!
How did the kid acquire a gun?
I scrolled all the way to the bottom to start with the most recent comment first and as I worked my way up I started reading One backwards and then I realized without any thought whatsoever that it was from that drooling idiot gsl1589. That guy’s just a broken record and boring as sin!
I didn’t even have to see the poster’s name to see to realize that it was he. You need a new Trope, dog.
Like Alexa/Alexia above, “it’s all about kenny-boy” the un-master-un-minded mentally deficient moron that just comments his bowel-drivel to stink up this site. Pathetic pile that he is.
See what I mean!
and kenny-boy proves my point, (see above post)…kenny-boy ‘cannot understand normal thinking’ (c u n t) because he “tries” reading “backwards” “(“I started reading One backwards”) and (he)…”realized without any thought whatsoever”; because he is not capable of rational thought…and he declares it for the world to read…he really is a mental midget moron, by his own personal statements.
It is soooo easy, kenny-boy, you do it to yourself!!!!HAHAHAHHA!!!!!!!!!
Why no statement from the decedent’s father?
Oh, the “sperm donor”? his mommy might not know “who” the SD is, apparently no “influence” on miscreation’s life, at least no positive influence, jmho.