Police release footage after officers shoot 13-year-old boy [The boy'a mother had told the police that he had a gun, and that he had threatened to shoot someone]

yahoo.com ^ | September 21, 2020 | Sophia Eppolito and Lindsay Whitehurst

[rktman]

Family attorney? Perhaps I’m out of touch but pretty sure I don’t have a family attorney. Maybe they meant an attorney representing the family?

[Zhang Fei]

Mother decides to buy a ticket for the lawsuit lottery? Two birds with one stone? The cops take out the unwanted kid, and she gets a multi-million dollar payout? Maybe I’m too cynical.

[MeanWestTexan]

The very rich and the very poor share a very few things.

One is having a “family attorney.” Generally on retainer.

[IYAS9YAS]

Mother decides to buy a ticket for the lawsuit lottery? Two birds with one stone? The cops take out the unwanted kid, and she gets a multi-million dollar payout? Maybe I’m too cynical.

Honestly, I thought the same thing.

[MeanWestTexan]

“Mother decides to buy a ticket for the lawsuit lottery? Two birds with one stone? The cops take out the unwanted kid, and she gets a multi-million dollar payout? Maybe I’m too cynical.”

You’re dead on.

[Bullish]

13yr olds with guns can be just as deadly as hardened criminals ya’ know?

[rigelkentaurus]

Sounds like the “mother” swatted her own son.

[Cold Heart]

Reading the mother’s comments, he’s triggered by law enforcement, unintentional or not, she set him up.

[ryderann]

We have to reopen our state mental hospitals.

[rktman]

Maybe we’re related. I’m either cynically skeptical or skeptically cynical. Only a counselor may be able to pinpoint that. :-)

[MeanWestTexan]

The kid is white.

White lives don’t matter.

No one will care.

[NEMDF]

From the article: “....But she told officers she thought it was a BB gun or pellet gun. There were no indications he was armed....”

It seems to me like police officers should not be expected to discern, in the microsecond that they are fearing for their lives, as to whether the gun someone has is lethal or not. They should be allowed to believe a gun is a gun, for the sake of protecting themselves.

JMHO

[DEPcom]

This Mother story sounds fishy to me, could this have been a law suite set up.

If I threaten to shoot someone and my parents though I have a BB gun, my father would have taken away from me then beat me with it.

The mother then goes on to tell the police her son is trigger by Police. Leading the police believe her son could be armed and would shoot on site of a uniform.

Who taught her son to be scared of the police?

[rktman]

Unless they are, as rip van byeDUHn mentioned, ‘unarmed with a knife’ kind of teenagers.

[Pirate Ragnar]

“We have to reopen our state mental hospitals.”

Is there enough room for politicians?

[Fido969]

Actually, they didn't "take him out" but he probably has several million dollars worth of medical expenses in front of him.

“He sees the badge and he automatically thinks you are going to kill him or he has to defend himself in some way,” she said.

Mental illness or autism? Probably a good bet.

[llevrok]

The kid is white.

Bus loads of white "protesters" doing a U-turn and heading back to Portland

[mlo]

"It seems to me like police officers should not be expected to discern, in the microsecond that they are fearing for their lives, as to whether the gun someone has is lethal or not. They should be allowed to believe a gun is a gun, for the sake of protecting themselves."

True, but the mere suspicion of having a real gun isn't enough reason to shoot someone. There ought to be an actual imminent threat. What was it here?

[Zhang Fei]

[Actually, they didn’t “take him out” but he probably has several million dollars worth of medical expenses in front of him. ]

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She may have believed the media’s crap about cops being trigger-happy stone killers and bet that he would go out in a hail of bullets. Insurance will presumably cover the medical expenses. And, if it comes to that, indigents get free medical care. Not risk-free, but perhaps good enough to roll the dice.

Again, maybe I’m too cynical. What I’ve discovered with many news items, however, is that I’ve not been cynical enough.