[Liam-]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

At that age girls are usually taller than boys. Would he have been scared if it was girl? Its an absolute joke to say that officer was scared.

You seem to be missing the point.. if it was the kid on his own, no the officer or anybody wouldn't have been scared.. but the kid had a - what was thought to be a real - gun, that's what added the danger, so the height of the child is completely irrelevant.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

You seem to be missing the point.. if it was the kid on his own, no the officer or anybody wouldn't have been scared.. but the kid had - what was thought to be - a real gun, that's what added the danger, so the height of the child is completely irrelevant.

It matters that the person was a child. I find it hard to believe that a trained Police officer was afraid of a child to the extent that he felt he had to shoot them. I dont find it believable.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

It matters that the person was a child. I find it hard to believe that a trained Police officer was afraid of a child to the extent that he felt he had to shoot them. I dont find it believable.

A child with a gun, i doubt the cop woke up in the morning and decided to go out and slaughter a child for the hell of it.

He had a job to do, police officers are trained to asses situations and assess how dangerous the person in question is, at this point he saw someone waving a gun around, it doesn't make a difference if it is a child or not, so he reacted in the way that they are trained to do.

I can't imagine this cop being happy to feel the need to kill a child, but under his oath to serve and protect, that is what he felt he needed to do and now he has to live the rest of his life knowing that he killed a child who was idiotically branding a fake gun, made to look like a real one, because he was doing as he was trained to do.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

A child with a gun, i doubt the cop woke up in the morning and decided to go out and slaughter a child for the hell of it.

He had a job to do, police officers are trained to asses situations and assess how dangerous the person in question is, at this point he saw someone waving a gun around, it doesn't make a difference if it is a child or not, so he reacted in the way that they are trained to do.

I can't imagine this cop being happy to feel the need to kill a child, but under his oath to serve and protect, that is what he felt he needed to do and now he has to live the rest of his life knowing that he killed a child who was idiotically branding a fake gun, made to look like a real one, because he was doing as he was trained to do.

You rightly say cops are supposed to assess a threat but there are very few cases of children murdering police officers. Look all around the world, it just doesn't happen. The officer failed to correctly assess the threat.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

You rightly say cops are supposed to assess a threat but there are very few cases of children murdering police officers. Look all around the world, it just doesn't happen. The officer failed to correctly assess the threat.

But there are many cases of children killing in general.. children getting into gangs and getting themselves into trouble.

Just because the person involved was a child, does not make them any less dangerous than anyone else, a child with a gun, is just as dangerous as a grown up with a gun.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

But there are many cases of children killing in general.. children getting into gangs and getting themselves into trouble.

Just because the person involved was a child, does not make them any less dangerous than anyone else, a child with a gun, is just as dangerous as a grown up with a gun.

I beg to differ. It is truly a sorry state of affairs when a trained police officer sees a child as just as much of a threat as an adult. To say that an officer had to shoot a child would take extraordinary set of circumstances for me but I suppose we disagree on that.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

I beg to differ. It is truly a sorry state of affairs when a trained police officer sees a child as just as much of a threat as an adult. To say that an officer had to shoot a child would take extraordinary set of circumstances for me but I suppose we disagree on that.

Okay then so lets look at it like this.. If a man of say 30 was waving a gun around and aiming it at people, but he was only the size of a 12 year old child, so hence looked like a child.. would the officer at the scene not have to take taught action against him because he was the size of a child so wasn't necessarily intimidating?

[Ninastar]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

A child with a gun, i doubt the cop woke up in the morning and decided to go out and slaughter a child for the hell of it.

He had a job to do, police officers are trained to asses situations and assess how dangerous the person in question is, at this point he saw someone waving a gun around, it doesn't make a difference if it is a child or not, so he reacted in the way that they are trained to do.

I can't imagine this cop being happy to feel the need to kill a child, but under his oath to serve and protect, that is what he felt he needed to do and now he has to live the rest of his life knowing that he killed a child who was idiotically branding a fake gun, made to look like a real one, because he was doing as he was trained to do.

Well said...

I think people often forget how dangerous America can be sometimes. It wasn't too long ago that there was those cases of people literally eating people alive in public. A police officer was even attacked in one of those events.

I'm not comparing those events, but I'm just using it as an example to show what kind of craziness goes on in America.

I definitely agree with those saying the gun laws are crazy... It's true. They need to have a hell of a lot stricter policies put in place.