Posted on 11/23/2014 6:39:33 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A Cleveland police officer responding to a call about a person with a gun fatally wounded a 12-year-old boy brandishing what turned out to be an air gun that looked very much like a real firearm, police said early Sunday.
The shooting Saturday afternoon came as the nation nervously awaited a grand jury decision on whether to charge the police officer who killed African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August.
The attorney for the family of the Cleveland youngster, who also was black, downplayed any possible racial connotations to the shooting.
"This is not a black and white issue. This is a right and wrong issue," attorney Tim Kucharski said.
Police were summoned to the scene outside a recreation center by a 911 caller who said someone -- possibly a juvenile -- was pointing a gun at people.
"There's a guy in there with a pistol, you know, it's probably fake, but he's like pointing it at everybody," the caller said, according to audio provided by CNN affiliate WEWS....
(Excerpt) Read more at wibw.com ...
How did they approach the kid? In the days of old the cops would have actually walked up to the child and question him. It’d go something like “Son, there are reports you’re waving a gun around, don’t be scared you’re not being arrested at the moment, now do as we say, we need to search you.” Gone are the good old days. Now just about every threat perceived or real gets almost like a swat team treatment. From news accounts and footage it seems they don’t even try to use psychology, it’s just barking orders and intimidation.
Pointing a realistic toy gun at a cop can get you killed. Who doesn’t know that except little gansta wannabes?
One of the first things they told us when we got “in Country” was that “a six year old with a frag can kill you just as quick & dead as an NVA colonel will.”
fta .....An orange tip indicating the gun was an air gun had been removed, police said.
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BS! B-B guns are not TOY guns and do not require orange tips.
I saw numerous postings on an earlier FR thread that referred to them as toy guns. Those people apparently have never killed birds, squirrels, etc., with a B-B gun, as I have.
It is entirely possible there was more than one 911 call, with divergent reports as to what was happening.
That is the way it should be. You are entirely correct.
Don’t want to accept that responsibility and risk, don’t become a cop.
It was only in late September at a Walmart that a cop shot and killed some guy who was carrying a BB gun to the cash register to purchase it.
Cops have reached the point where they are no longer expected to think logically.
A grand jury decided not to file charges Wednesday against police officers who shot and killed 22-year-old John Crawford III inside a Beavercreek, Ohio, Wal-Mart for carrying a BB gun.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/09/24/3571699/grand-jury-wont-charge-cops-in-wal-mart-killing-even-as-video-reveals-victim-never-pointed-his-gun/
If that’s what really happened.
We're seeing the wreckage of fifty years of Great Society programs...which shows conclusively that those things done with the best of intentions are potentially the most toxic.
The bottom line is that if the cops become seen as murderers with badges, then they become targets — whether they subscribe to this aggressive “shoot first and ask questions later” form of policing or not.
Several thoughts come to mind: 1) There are a lot more victims than cops (local, state, federal) and 2) the potential victims are armed (and usually better shots). Yes, you can raid the homes of your victims and drive up a body count, but you have families and live among us. That's not a good situation for you under such conditions. These conditions are those of civil or guerrilla war. Such outcomes are not to be sought.
Well they shoot unarmed canines all the time and get away with it! /s
If someone holds a gun such that they are aiming at me my loved ones I will open their head like a canoe without hesitation.
Now you know.
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