What the hell is wrong with some of these cops? Maybe they need to take their weapons away and just make them walk a beat with a nightstick.
That cop belongs in prison for a very long time.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this particular cop, if you had bothered to read the entire story. The victim was a suspect in a murder! The victim had shot at police the day before. In other words, the victim was known to have a handgun on his person, something that is unusual for a 16-year-old in California. The victim climbed the fence into a daycare center yard. The victim appeared to be carrying an object in his right hand, which the police probably assumed was the gun he had shot at them with the day before. Of course, had the victim taken kids hostage at the daycare center, you would have been the first one on this board complaining as to why the cops didn’t shoot him. Here is the bottom line: if you don’t wanna get shot by the cops, obey their orders, don’t run, and especially don’t run when you’re wanted for murder.