Looks like we dodged a bullet.
So a bb gun is a pretend gun??
Are you sure he wasn't acting White?
The deputy stood his ground and shot an innocent boy? Hmmmmmm, sound like its time to riot and loot! Oh wait, can’t, no place to park all the cars and I can’t leave work. Damn, my chance to get a 65” flat screen too.
Holding the gun or pointing the gun at the deputy? It makes a big difference. If all he was doing was holding it then I don’t care if it was an AK-47 with a gazillion round ‘clip’ the deputy should be charged with homicide.
I have a BB gun for squirrels and racoons (yes, it is ineffective), and I have pink string and tape and paint wrapped around the barrel for the (darn near impossible) occasion where a copper would see me holding it.
Did the deputy make it home safe?
Well, I purchased a Ruger pellet rifle with a scope, sat out at the pool, and dispatched 14 squirrels on day #1. I did the same to another 22 over the next two weeks, all in my yard. The smart ones stayed street side. I went out front and ended their little tree rat lives, but was seen by a local cop driving by. He came around the block and chirped his siren and told me to stay in my back yard with that thing!
I had hired pest control guys, put out pans of vinegar, cayenne pepper sprayed in the attic, have a heart traps, cinnamon, and even forced my cat to spend her nights in the attic. None of that worked. I had to resort to deadly force.
My wife reminded me of how bad of an outcome being in the front yard with a black rifle and scope could be in Memphis. So did the cop.
Could have put the cops eye out .....
That makes it OK?
And yet another one,, ,
Why are the cops always fearing for their lives??
I’ve seen BB guns that look like machine guns. Stupid kid.
I’ve seen BB guns that look like machine guns. Stupid kid.
Its an upside down world. Cops in any town USSA can shoot to kill cause they are “scared” and our military, in a damn war zone, can’t shoot unless fired upon.