Sometimes common sense should overrule what you're allowed to do.. As a general rule, people shouldn't walk around with guns showing. Fake or not. And can we just mention that the officers who stumbled upon this kid were probably scared shitless? If I am going to shoot at someone holding what I believe to be an AK47 and all I have is a little handgun, I'm gonna try to kill the shit out of them before I get peppered.
Ps: I'm not sure If what I said about vending machines is correct but I'm pretty sure I'm 110% correct.
If I were the parent of that child, I would sue those cops and the entire department for everything they're worth, I'd screw up their lives so bad. I'd give them a bad name, I'd post it everywhere what happened. I would make them ashamed to be who they are. And then.. I'd laugh in their face and say the deserve at the very least that.
If the cops are just saying "drop the weapon!" From across the street he wont be paying no mind unless he hears sirens. Sirens weren't on. I know I wouldn't either. If I'm just walkimg down the street and people start yelling from across the street I wont pay no mind..
I think that the police officer did the correct thing. Don't get me wrong, killing a 13 year old is extreme. Police men can do whatever the hell they want, they think you have drugs in the car, they pull you over. They think you have even speeding, they pull you over. If I decided to run from a cop, I would get chased down because they think I have been doing something illegal. The police man thought he had a gun and since Andy refused his orders, the police officer felt threatened and killed the poor boy before he would be shot. I'm basically saying, it is okay for a police man to perform the actions he did, but it was wrong to kill a 13 year old. He had his whole life ahead of him.
So there's an age limit on when it's ok to kill? If he had been 18 it would be ok? What the hell is wrong with your head?
Kristi, Are you a police officer? Have you ever been on the opposite side of a gun? Especially an unstable 13 year old kid that should not be in possession of a gun, your lack of common sense is showing in your posts.
I guess if i was a policeman and i thought a person was completely ignoring my attempts to disarm himself of what i thought was a machine gun or whatever they are i wouldn't be shooting his ankles
I suppose another question is are policeman trained in those situations to aim to disarm or aim to kill I'd assume most likely aim to kill
I think there's a lot more to the story than what the brief article says. I find it hard to believe cops would go crazy on a young boy just because "he didn't hear the cops ask him to put the gun down?" idk. I feel like there had to be something else the boy was doing for that to happen. at the same time, because he's dead, we'll never know. I'm not saying it's the boy's fault, but it's just hard to believe a bunch of cops would open fire on some random kid walking down the street. at the same time, we have to keep in mind that less than a week ago, there was that shooting in Colorado. school shootings are happening much more frequently, with much younger kids. maybe there's different protocols for cops now that all of these shootings are happening. yet we should also keep in mind that there is such a thing as a corrupted cop(s). so I can see the possibility of either side being at fault. honestly, I don't think we'll ever know what truly happened there.