[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?

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

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?

I would expect the officer to correctly assess the threat.

[Liam-]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

I would expect the officer to correctly assess the threat.

Like he did with the child, they see a gun being branded in public and being aimed at people around them, they look at the gun, not the person holding it, because at that moment, it doesn't matter who's holding it because the danger would be the same no matter what.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by LiamPRW

Like he did with the child, they see a gun being branded in public and being aimed at people around them, they look at the gun, not the person holding it, because at that moment, it doesn't matter who's holding it because the danger would be the same no matter what.

I wouldn't say that he assessed the situation correctly if a child is dead over a toy gun.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I wouldn't say that he assessed the situation correctly if a child is dead over a toy gun.

how many times?

It was not a toy gun