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Old 25-11-2014, 07:53 PM #1
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Originally Posted by AnnieK View Post
To be honest the cops were damned if they do, damned if they don't. Had they not shot him and it had been a real gun and innocent bystanders were killed there would be outcry as to why they hadn't shot him first. As an untrained member of the public it's easy to say he should have been approached and they should have realised it was a fake etc etc etc but we have no real idea as to how the incident unfolded, just reports.

On the flip side if it were my 12 year old with a toy gun shot to death by the police I would be creating holy hell too....

The problem is it looked so real
it did not have any plastic orange on it



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