Not enough info in the linked story to make a call here, at least for me.
Was the cop just walking by, saw a kid playing w/a toy gun in his yard, told him to drop it and fire? Was he on a robbery call? Who knows.
Based on what’s reported, I don’t see a prob w/the cop firing if he orders to drop and the kid begins to turn. He could’ve been turning to fire. The cop may not have known immediately that he hit the kid on the first shot and thought the kid was dropping to minimize target size, hence, the ass shot.
Citizen review board seems like a nice idea though. I agree w/the constitutional concept of not having a standing military, which is what our police force seem to have effectively become.
“Was the cop just walking by, saw a kid playing w/a toy gun in his yard, told him to drop it and fire? Was he on a robbery call? Who knows.”
You need to educate yourself on this story.
“Based on what’s reported, I don’t see a prob w/the cop firing if he orders to drop and the kid begins to turn.”
You are effed up. According to your “assessment” any cop has the right to shoot someone they think might be turning on him even though he called out to him.
I can’t believe you posted that.
“Based on what’s reported, I don’t see a prob w/the cop firing if he orders to drop and the kid begins to turn.”
The implication is that if you were on your own property holding a weapon and an unknown someone came up behind you and ordered you to drop the weapon, you’d do so without reflexively turning to see who was giving the order.
Is that what you’d really do?
What if what you were holding wasn’t really a weapon as far as you were concerned, so you couldn’t drop “the weapon”?