Posted on 10/30/2013 8:46:51 PM PDT by Rabin
Andy Lopez Cruz, age 13. On Oct. 22, Lopez was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy on Moorland Avenue in southwest Santa Rosa. The boy was carrying an airsoft BB gun designed to look like an AK-47 assault rifle, and police investigating the shooting said the deputy mistook the gun for a real weapon.
Lopez's parents stood before the altar, next to their son's closed coffin, which was covered in white fabric. For the duration of the service, the boy's mother, Sujey Lopez, lay her arms over the coffin with her head against it. The boy's father, Rodrigo Lopez, stood next to her, comforting her.
(Excerpt) Read more at pressdemocrat.com ...
In my own experience, I was eighteen inches away from one, and couldn’t tell the difference until I picked up. Looked just like a H and K UPS 45 and my suspect got his sorry ass shot over it too.
Well, it’s common practice for agencies to draw blood or urine after a shooting, so you might find out.
From reading their posts, My Friend, the evidence shows that there are those on this forum that will defend the actions of the Einsatzgruppen Groups in Eastern Europe in 1940-41 for no other reason than they had the word “police” attached to them. From their point of view, no matter what the police do[ as long as it is to someone else, not them] is o.k.
In my own experience, I was eighteen inches away from one, and couldn’t tell the difference until I picked up. Looked just like a H and K UPS 45 and my suspect got his sorry ass shot over it too.
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Yes, the picture of the airsoft HANDGUN in your linked article I concede could easily be mistaken for a real handgun—and I would understand a shooting when a suspicious person pulled one OF THOSE.
However, go to the above linked article with the picture of an actual AK47 rifle side-by-side with the actual airsoft replica the 13 year old kid had. For anyone with the smallest familiarity with AK47s (that should include most veterans) there is NO possibility of mistaking the “replica” for the real thing. Training of all Cops and deputies should include familiarization with common weapons such as AK47 rifles. There is NO EXCUSE for this killing of a person carrying a toy.
Please don’t “mix up apples and oranges” in an attempt to defend these despicable cops.
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NO possibility?
So, how did a combat vet, who is a twenty year firearms instructor get it wrong? Oh that’s right, the officer just wanted to murder a kid.
Albeit the front sight is gone, that does not affect the firing or real or toy and the furniture looks more AK-74 that AK-47, at least to me.
You are failing to take into account the distances the officers are viewing from.
Oh BTW, how many shootings have you been in or how many times have you had someone point a rifle at you? I’m curious, because you are the expert on such things apparently.
“...Oh BTW, how many shootings have you been in or how many times have you had someone point a rifle at you? I’m curious, because you are the expert on such things apparently....”
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I’ve never been shot at or had a weapon of any kind pointed at me in CONUS. Overseas, a handful of times...and in those I usually didn’t typically didn’t see the weapons but would hear the bullets whizzing close to me in the air and/or see muzzle flashes. And those occasions were always in “Indian Country” and not in a relatively peaceful domestic American community.
But feel free to continue to protect your blue brothers, even when they do wrong, if that makes you feel more manly.
And don’t forget to take your steroid shot this morning if that’s your practice.
Keeping in mind this is the internet and anyone can be a pretender.
I will continue to protect my brothers in blue, and being wrong is your OPINION, not empirical proof or even validated experience.
And as for the steroid comment, that’s always a punk move on the internet. Manly would be walking up into the cops front yard and saying same when he is not in uniform. Manly, but not particularly wise.
Have a safe day.
“...Have a safe day.”
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Well thank you. And you have another wonderful leather day with the boys.
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