"15 year old 8th grader says a lot about the kid to begin with."
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Posted on 01/05/2012 1:00:21 AM PST by Iron Munro
A teenager was shot dead by police today after brandishing a pellet gun in the hallway of his school.
Police say 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez was holding a weapon that looked like a handgun, and refused to lower it when asked to by officers.
The two officers who shot the eighth-grader have been suspended while police carry out an investigation into his death.
The report which sent officers rushing to Cummings Middle School in Brownsville, Texas stated that a student had been seen holding a gun, according to the town's police chief Orlando Rodriguez.
Robert Valle, 13, was among the school's 750 students locked down in their classrooms during the confrontation. He said he heard police run down the hallway and yell 'put the gun down,' before several shots were fired.
'He had plenty of opportunities to lower the weapon and he didn't want to,' Mr Rodriguez said.
Two officers fired three shots, striking Gonzalez at least twice. He was taken to hospital and pronounced dead on arrival. The autopsy results are pending.
A police report stated: 'The weapon used by the suspect is a CO2 .177-calibre pellet pistol and is similar to a Glock type semi-automatic handgun.'
Before the confrontation with police, the teenager is reported to have walked into a classroom and punched another boy in the nose.
Gonzalez's godmother Norma Leticia Navarro said she couldn't imagine what led to the fatal confrontation.
'Jaime was not a bad kid, and I wish I could ask him why he did that, why did you put yourself in that position?'
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"15 year old 8th grader says a lot about the kid to begin with."
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It was well thought out and not worth reading.
“Even IF the kid’s gun was real, what gives the PIGS the right to KILL him just because they don’t like his toy?”
Uh, when the PIGS ordered him to put it down and he instead pointed it at them.
Break into my house waving that pellet gun, and you'll get a few .40 cal holes in your body.
Cops did right ... kid was an idiot.
I hope that your post was intended as some sort of joke, but you're Canadian ... makes it hard to tell.
LOL I had 3 sons and it still amazes me they arrived at adulthood with all of their appendages intact. The thing I hated the most is when they ran into the house with a hand over their eye because my first thought was always, “They have put their eye out and this is going to be grosser than usual!”
I conclude two things from your post:
1) You don't know Brownsville's location, nor the significance of such.
2) Therefore, you don't know that there's isn't any Tim Horton's for the cops to have invited him to.
But closer to your neck of the woods...
3) How's that creeping sharia law working out for you?
Cheers!
What a hate-filled post.
Shame on you.
I guess kids were smarter back then. As you said, you survived with both your eyes, and there were evil Easy Bake ovens and chemistry kits and other things that would be not allowed now. And somehow, the kids survived and thrived.
>>“Even IF the kid’s gun was real, what gives the PIGS the right to KILL him just because they don’t like his toy?”
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>Uh, when the PIGS ordered him to put it down and he instead pointed it at them.
That nay be justification... but it begs a question: do all orders given by the authorities have to be obeyed?
With your reply, and the implicit “you must obey the police,” firmly in mind.
What would your stance on someone refusing to be disarmed, say from an illegal property search, and being killed by the police be?
Yeah, but now they are their wives’ problems! :)
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