Posted on 07/11/2014 11:34:04 PM PDT by Rabin
Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Erick Gelhaus shouted then shot (dead 13-year-old Andy Lopez on October 22, 2013), Eric fired eight rounds. The hit / miss order can never be known. What is known is that Andy had failed to orange tip the bb-gun and that he never returned fire. Forensic indicate the 73 lb. perp took three 44 hollow points in the back and right side (falling?) plus four horizontals, head , neck lower...
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“Of course you could be shot for turning around to face an armed person with a rifle in your hands...”
You seem OK with that even though the gun owner has done nothing wrong. You can be holding a gun without having criminal intent and a cops shouldnt be allowed to kill you just for turning to face someone who talks to you.
“As far as the paper carriers, nice try, but no one could agree with that shooting and I certainly didnt.”
You may not be aware that an internal review of that shooting showed no wrongdoing on the part of the cops. Hard to believe that level of irresponsibility is considered acceptable.
I thought you might find this interesting.
http://www.steynonline.com/6317/gun-control
I said you could be shot for doing that, I gave no opinion on whether it would be “okay”.
I’m well aware that there are some very bad people out there wearing badges, and even holding the position of District Attorney.
One of the witnesses warned Andy that the police were behind him and that he should drop the gun. Andy ignored the warning and kept walking with the gun slinged on his shoulder.
If the kid had raised the gun, apparently with the intent to fire, I wouldnt be criticizing the cops. However, the kid knew he only had a pellet gun so its unlikely that he would have done that.
According to the DA's report, Andy did raise the gun as he turned. They hired experts to verify that was consistent with the evidence. Andy was also high on pot at the time, which probably affected his judgement.
In California it isn't legal either.
If it was a case where the police really did think the kid was going to fire, I can accept that. In most reports that I did read on the issue made it seem more of a case of pretext.
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