Why is no one concerned about how the cop must feel, killing an (it turns out) unarmed 15-year-old kid.
Parents told police the gun was a pellet gun. No reason this kid should have been murdered.
Oh wow, now the kids was unarmed?
Funny, the local news here in Orlando is saying different. But the kids lawyer might say he was unarmed.
If I am a cop, and I am called to a school - where a kid who a year previous had made a bomb threat there - had a gun that was modified by this kid to resemble a semi-auto handgun and had put if to another kids head, had held him hostage and then pointed the gun directly at me (the cop) after he was told multiple times to drop it, you think I wouldn't shoot?
If it HAD been a 9mm and the kid had shot the place up, would you have wanted the police to stand by and then be able to say "well, gee. We thought it was a BB Gun. It sure looked like one".
Cops ENFORCE THE LAW. Thats why they are called "LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS"
But that doesn't matter I guess.
The cop should sue the parents for putting him in danger. Didn't he do that to himself when he became a cop?
Can you show us a lawsuit where a cop sued the perpetrators of a crime? In the line of duty, as this one was.
Thanks.