[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

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

how many times?

It was not a toy gun

If that's what you're focusing on here then I pity you, I honestly do.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

If that's what you're focusing on here then I pity you, I honestly do.

X2

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

If that's what you're focusing on here then I pity you, I honestly do.

if you cannot see the distinction then I would suggest you are just trolling this thread