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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
I would imagine many calls to cops the Joe Public says it may be a fake gun, how the hell is the average joe to know. The cops training will state "treat it like a real gun"
I feel sorry for the poor cops
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If your post is a response to mine LT, then you should re-read mine, because the attending cops were certainly not your 'average Joe' - they were -- suposedly -- mature police officers who had undergone the most rigorous of training in dealing with just such situations as this, and being trained police officers, should have 20/20 vision, therefore should have readily identified that the 'suspect' was a child. What's more, they were armed as serving police officers with tasers as well as firearms, and should have adopted different tactics which involved immobilising the child rather than shooting to kill.
FFS one of the cops was a 10 year veteran.
And I should think - real weapon or not - the fact that there were two mature cops against a 12 year old child gave the cops a monumental advantage in deploying a disabling strategy ie; one covering with levelled firearm while approaching and the other taser-ready.
This is not the first racially motivated murder by cops in American history, and while ever there are apologists supporting these rogue bastards, it won't be the last.