You can see it on his face. The way his eyes look around unsure of if he should even be saying what he's saying.
He's terrified, and he's using the only tool in his belt: anger. He's threatening his own son, and his sons friends on camera for the world to see and you can see it in his eyes that there's a part of him saying "this is a bad idea" but he's so scared, so lost that its the only thing he can think to do to protect his son.
There's no logic in what he's saying: I'll kill you before they do. So what if he did? Now he's killed his son, his wife's baby--to teach him a lesson?
Hes pushing that boy further and further away. Hes getting his son used to seeing him not as someone who cares about him, but someone who wants to control him and as a threat to his own life and safety. At best, his son will never talk to him again when he's old enough to be on his own. At worst, if breh really does get linked up with a gang they might murk his pops. He need to go back to the drawing board. This ain't it
There's a difference between the only tool in the belt and the right tool for the job. We don't what stage he's at. We don't know how many times pops has told him to quit fukking around, come home after school, have his ass at home at night, don't smoke weed, quit playin with drugs, cops will kill you, cops will beat you, etc.
This certainly doesn't look like the first time. Kid looks like he's heard it before. Anger is a tool, and sometimes it's the right tool for the job.
That boy needs to be controlled, by his parents, NOT his friends. His friends are going to get him beat up, killed, arrested, killed by cops. If his pops has his ass in the house after school and at night until he graduates high school and decides to move out on his own, while some of his friends never graduate, are arrested or in jail, it's up to the boy to understand "

Pops was right"
Now I know this ain't a black problem but every mass shooters parents/guardian knew they were fukked up, and unwilling to kill them before they hurt people. What if the sandy hook mom, or parkland parents, Brooklyn store shooter, highland park parade shooter, uvalde, etc etc decided to step up and do one of the hardest things a parent could do, before those idiots did what they did?
This kid may never do a mass shooting. But who's to say he won't run around with guns carjacking people, breaking into houses or shoot someone in some sort of beef? Then pops has to be on the news juelzing "he didn't come from that, we don't condone that" while everyone just

. Same thing if his son gets shot on the streets, or jackin cars, breakin in houses, pops has to be on the news.....