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Originally Posted by Salman! (Post 6448189)

Tragic
And Wow he looks about 20

seriously. he doesn't look 13 at all.

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Originally Posted by Marc (Post 6448285)

They're idiots and they'll both have it on their conscious now

IF they even have consciences!

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Originally Posted by fingers (Post 6448290)

IF they even have consciences!

...because they are cops, they must be monsters that were born without a soul, right? :rolleyes:

Whoops I spelt that wrong. My mind thinks one thing. My eyes see another :blush2:

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Originally Posted by lostalex (Post 6448278)

sorry i disagree. You sound like they should be psychic and know the gun is plastic.

Cops are HUMAN BEINGS going to work every day just like the rest of us. They aren't GODS. They don't have special powers, they aren't psychic. And they have just as much a right to protect themselves as any other human being when they feel threatened.

They don't make very much money, and they have families that care about them too.

Clearly someone called the cops because they were scared, a member of the public saw this kid waving it around and felt threatened so they called the cops, they told the cops someone guy is waving around a high-powered automatic weapon, please help us. That's all the cops knew when they got to the scene.

Well you don't need to be psychic to see the difference between a PLASTIC toy and a real METALIC gun. You just need eyes.

Being apart of the police force is a huge responsibility and mistakes can result in the deaths of innocent people. If they can't handle that then they simply should have handed in their badges before they shot and killed a child. Police Officers must be held to a high standard and if they can't live up to that then they should find another line of work.

Yes they are only human but I'm not going to feel sorry for them when they went all guns blazing and murdered an innocent child instead of doing their damn jobs properly.

Thats why you listen when a cop tells you something, no matter if it a toy or not

can't blame the cops because the kid was an idiot

The rifle wasn't a toy, it was described as "a replica" which is something quite different. You'd have to be pretty close to be sure, and who would want to be that close? And after being told several times to put the rifle down, the boy didn't comply and allegedly raised it toward an officer. He was apparently also carrying a replica handgun in his belt. And all this the day after a 12 year old shot a teacher dead in Nevada, wounded a couple of other people then killed himself. It's a sad waste of life, but carrying a replica assault rifle in public is, to say the least, a questionable decision.

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Originally Posted by Livia (Post 6449297)

Yes Police say replica

Family says toy

still tragic