Are they color blind? Did the kid remove the bright red plastic at the tip of the barrel?
Must be.
When a firearm is pointed at me, I’ll be sure to focus on the color of a 1/4” piece of plastic at the muzzle.
Per other articles, there was no orange/red tip on this toy/replica gun. And per this article, the kid is a “special ed” student. Whoever is supposed to be looking after this kid should be facing some charges. What the heck is a “special ed” kid doing riding around after dark, unsupervised, with a realistic replica gun? A normal kid would have the sense not to point it at someone in a situation that could be mistaken for intent to fire a real gun. This kid apparently couldn’t figure out that when you’re carrying a realistic-looking gun and a police officer yells at you to “Drop it”, you shouldn’t respond by pointing the realistic-looking gun at the officer.