Trainng works!
Oh no! Not Ralphy!
Riot now. No? The kid wasn’t a thug I guess.
Neighbors like you we do not need.
Looks like Al and Jesse will have to split their time between Ferguson and Cleveland.
“....a handful of community activists shouted obscenities from behind a group of reporters, “
Uh Oh!
which “community” explodes first....Cleveland Of Ferguson...?
Here’s an idea..if you don’t want to get shot..don’t point a gun at cops..gee, logic, who knew!
The gun had been modified to remove its orange tip, making it identifiable as a toy.
Those orange tips are a rotten idea. I have never heard of any time when an LEO said, “I was just about to shoot them, and then I saw the orange tip on their gun, so I didn’t.”
Likewise, since it would be easy to put a fake orange tip on a real gun, it does the police no good anyway.
Instead, kids need instruction that they should never, ever draw down on a cop, and if a cop ever orders them to do something, they must. And most important of all, a fake gun can get them really shot.
Have the “Runnin’ Reverends” run into town yet?
No, that's wrong.
In fact these days most cops want to do EXACTLY THAT, and that's why they signed up to be a cop.
They feel they have a license to hunt humans, and that's what they do.
They see citizens as falling into two types --those they have arrested and those still awaiting arrest, and nothing in-between.
Trainng works!
This is what happens when parents don’t parent. Children flashing a bb gun in the streets instead of being supervised in the home playing with it.
Why the parents aren’t being investigated is a shame.
“The boy reached into his waistband, pulled out the gun and...”
Police don’t use the same ROI the soldiers in Afghanistan use. hey don’t need to be shot at before they return fire.
This child was not unarmed.
This kid’s “community” and “family” probably taught him that cops are the enemy, and to reach for a weapon at any provocation. Young thug in the making will now be described as angelic and an honor student (went to school sometimes).
Rookie cop. Terrible rookie mistake. Terrible tragedy.
“When an officer gives a command, we expect it to be followed,” Tomba said.
“Give me your papers! You have a gun? Drop it or I’ll kill you! You have a permit? I don’t give a damn I’m still ordering you to drop it! I can’t wait to shoot somebody!”
Did the kid get swatted?
Whether or not the shooter is/was a police officer, the shooter did not properly wait to determine if the boy was a threat.
Even if you are a police officer, you *do* have to wait, you *do* have to determine if a person with a gun in their hand is gesturing threateningly, and/or making sounds or speech (of some form) that is threatening, and/or acting in a direction - on a vector with weapon raised - to do harm.
Was the kid mentally challenged? Did he speak English? If not, then he was an idiot. Harsh? Nope. No matter how much anyone hates cops....they aren’t mind readers. Pull anything on a cop and you get what you deserve.
Tragic but not a criminal act. Very sad though. One young life lost one rookie cop scarred for the duration.