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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
as i said hindsight is in short supply in the police force
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..but that isn't a reason though is it...these are law enforcement officers, they're there to uphold the law and keep the peace, they're not executioners with a 'can't take any chances/let's just shoot them all and think about it later' thing going on...it's been said in a lot of articles that the young boy's hand went down to his belt where the fake gun was so he didn't have it in his hand at the time that the police officer was shouting at him, which is an indication that the officer's method of 'handling' and containing the situation was all wrong, completely wrong and possibly contributed to escalating something that should never have happened caused this child to lose his life... and now a young child is dead, parents have lost their child..if that was you or I and one of our children, would we indeed be questioning that, that officer did not assess that situation well...
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