[Ammi]

Police in Ohio shot dead a 13-year-old boy who they said brandished a firearm which turned out to be a BB gun.
Teenager Tyree King was taken to hospital in Columbus where he died just after 8pm on Wednesday evening.
Police were responding to a call about an armed robbery in Columbus involving multiple suspects.
They said when they arrived on the scene, the victim told them that they had been approached by a group of people wanting money and one of them had a gun.
Police officers found three men matching the suspects’ description, two of whom fled on foot.
“Officers followed the males to the alley ... and attempted to take them into custody when one suspect pulled a gun from his waistband,” police said in a statement, as reported by the Associated Press.

“One officer shot and struck the suspect multiple times.” Police said what they thought was a gun being drawn from the child's waistband was actually a BB gun - a type of air gun that shoots steel pellets - with an attached laser sight.
None of the officers was injured. Officers spoke with one of the male suspects who was with King. They interviewed him and released him pending further investigation. He was not injured.
The Columbus police division said, as with all police-related shootings, the officers will receive “mandated psychological support counselling and will have the chance to “take leave time to assist in recovery from a traumatic experience”.
NBC reported that the officer who fired the gun worked for the force for nine years and had only recently been transferred to that neighbourhood.
As reported by WBNS-TV, police said they spoke with witnesses to the robbery and the shooting, and were still searching for the third suspect.
The shooting is still under investigation. The killing comes almost two years after police in Cleveland, Ohio, shot dead 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was holding a pellet gun.
Police shot him within seconds of arriving on the scene. His death sparked protests across the country. The two officers involved were not indicted last December and Tamir's family received $6 million in a civil rights lawsuit settlement in April.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/...hio/ar-BBwbFv3

http://www.inquisitr.com/3512522/tyr...-year-old-boy/
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[Jack_]

I'm sure he was a threat! Where's the evidence he was an innocent little boy?! The police were well within their rights here!

etc etc

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Jack_

I'm sure he was a threat! Where's the evidence he was an innocent little boy?! The police were well within their rights here!

etc etc

If I'm reading that article right though, this 13 year old and two men tried to rob someone and the Police chased them and the two men fled and the boy went to pull the gun from his pants and that's when he was shot, am i reading that right? If that's the case then it does sound justified tbf

[arista]

Ammi
USA is the land of the Gun.

No kid must ever play with any
Gun or Toy Gun in front of the Police
is that so hard to understand?

[Northern Monkey]

Silly kid.You'd think they would've learned by now not to pull out firearms near police.The thing had a laser sight on it ffs.Sounds like the cop had no other choice and he has to live with that forever.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Too sad. RIP

Meanwhile

Here Are 7 White People Who Pointed Guns at Cops and Didn’t Get Killed
http://usuncut.com/black-lives-matte...-survive-cops/
http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...not-get-killed
And there are more of white kids with BB guns. They lived. Two in particular last year were made to write an essay on Tamir Rice as a result.

I love how they always push the agenda that white kids complied PEACEFULLY while the black ones raised hell. How do we get some of this favoritism? Can we get in on it too please. sir?

[LeatherTrumpet]

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

Too sad. RIP

Meanwhile

Here Are 7 White People Who Pointed Guns at Cops and Didn’t Get Killed
http://usuncut.com/black-lives-matte...-survive-cops/
http://www.alternet.org/civil-libert...not-get-killed
And there are more of white kids with BB guns. They lived. Two in particular last year were made to write an essay on Tamir Rice as a result.

I love how they always push the agenda that white kids complied PEACEFULLY while the black ones raised hell. How do we get some of this favoritism? Can we get in on it too please. sir?

tbf though last year (according to this article) more white people were shot dead by police than black people, almost double the amount in fact


https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...d4e_story.html

ETA although having read through it properly I see the unarmed ones were mostly black/Hispanic so I get your point

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

tbf though last year (according to this article) more white people were shot dead by police than black people, almost double the amount in fact

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IF this is true (you just can't trust the government and what they release to media outlets to push their agenda), it would make sense as whites make 63% of the population and giving that blacks are only 13% a large amount are still being killed. However it would be foolish to act like racial profiling is not a thing.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

^^'https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-police-killings-2015-young-black-men

''Despite making up only 2% of the total US population, African American males between the ages of 15 and 34 comprised more than 15% of all deaths logged this year by an ongoing investigation into the use of deadly force by police. Their rate of police-involved deaths was five times higher than for white men of the same age.''

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

IF this is true (you just can't trust the government and what they release to media outlets to push their agenda), it would make sense as whites make 63% of the population and giving that blacks are only 13% a large amount are still being killed. However it would be foolish to act like racial profiling is not a thing.

No I agree and It does say on that article that the vast majority of unarmed shootings are towards black/hispanic people. Racial profiling does nothing but cause the Police to fear black people more I think which leads to stories like we've seen a lot of lately where unarmed kids are being shot. I think for a start the Police training needs a massive over haul

[armand.kay]

I think the boy was incredibly stupid but the police need to 1 stop being so trigger happy and 2 if they are going to use their guns not shoot to kill.

[armand.kay]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

No I agree and It does say on that article that the vast majority of unarmed shootings are towards black/hispanic people. Racial profiling does nothing but cause the Police to fear black people more I think which leads to stories like we've seen a lot of lately where unarmed kids are being shot. I think for a start the Police training needs a massive over haul

Yeah I agree American police seem to rely to heavily on their guns it makes me wonder if they have any training at all or if they're just given a gun and a badge and sent out into the world.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

Yeah I agree American police seem to rely to heavily on their guns it makes me wonder if they have any training at all or if they're just given a gun and a badge and sent out into the world.

mmm also the fact their gun laws are ridiculous too so no doubt they're more jumpy when approaching people, literally anyone could be armed.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

I think the boy was incredibly stupid but the police need to 1 stop being so triage happy and 2 if they are going to use their guns not shoot to kill.

I think they need to stop allowing guns if this is going to be the result.

Like Niamh said, police should also be trained better to not shoot first or if they must shoot not shoot to kill, especially not with kids. Too many times the gun is a bb gun.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

I think they need to stop allowing guns if this is going to be the result.

Like Niamh said, police should also be trained better to not shoot first or if they must shoot not shoot to kill, especially not with kids. Too many times the gun is a bb gun.

Well the colour here is green unfortunately and that's why none of the governments can do a thing about it. You could tell Obama would have loved to do something about gun laws but in reality the President doesn't really run that country.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Well the colour here is green unfortunately and that's why none of the governments can do a thing about it. You could tell Obama would have loved to do something about gun laws but in reality the President doesn't really run that country.

Truth.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

If I'm reading that article right though, this 13 year old and two men tried to rob someone and the Police chased them and the two men fled and the boy went to pull the gun from his pants and that's when he was shot, am i reading that right? If that's the case then it does sound justified tbf

It's more understandable than some of the other cases imo, because what if it had've turned out that this 13 year old had a real gun? A Police officer would've died all because he didn't take the chance and save his own life.

However I still feel that the American Police force should be trying to train their Officers to shoot in the leg.

[Tom4784]

I can't wait to see how people try to blame the black child for his own murder while vindicating the presumably white killers.

It's obviously the child's fault for being killed for having a perfectly legal toy gun and not the presumably white officers' for not being competent enough to assess the situation properly before going trigger happy on the child.

[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo

^^'https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/31/the-counted-police-killings-2015-young-black-men

''Despite making up only 2% of the total US population, African American males between the ages of 15 and 34 comprised more than 15% of all deaths logged this year by an ongoing investigation into the use of deadly force by police. Their rate of police-involved deaths was five times higher than for white men of the same age.''

Look at that shooting a year or two ago with the white boy who opened fire on a gospel church. The police made the effort of taking him alive yet they'll pull off driveby's on innocent black kids like Tamir Rice.

Hell, Tamir Rice got a rougher time in the press afterwards with all the character assassination when he was innocent then that white kid did for opening fire on a church full of black people. I'm pretty sure most of the stories about him followed the typical 'misunderstood loner that could have been saved if only someone noticed' bull**** that most white shooters get in America.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

It's more understandable than some of the other cases imo, because what if it had've turned out that this 13 year old had a real gun? A Police officer would've died all because he didn't take the chance and save his own life.

However I still feel that the American Police force should be trying to train their Officers to shoot in the leg.

Shooting someone in the leg isn't going to stop them shooting you.The cops have to take away the ability of the guy with the gun to shoot them.It's not like in the movies where you can shoot the gun out of the hand.They have to aim for the biggest target.The torso

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

I can't wait to see how people try to blame the black child for his own murder while vindicating the presumably white killers.

It's obviously the child's fault for being killed for having a perfectly legal toy gun and not the presumably white officers' for not being competent enough to assess the situation properly before going trigger happy on the child.

He pulled a firearm with laser sight on an armed cop.What's the cop meant to do?wait until he's pulled it out fully and pointed it at him and possibly be killed?It takes a second to pull the trigger.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by armand.kay

I think the boy was incredibly stupid but the police need to 1 stop being so trigger happy and 2 if they are going to use their guns not shoot to kill.

Not shoot to kill?

Are you for real?


This isn't the A Team

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

He pulled a firearm with laser sight on an armed cop.What's the cop meant to do?wait until he's pulled it out fully and pointed it at him and possibly be killed?It takes a second to pull the trigger.

Don't rise to it. Smh

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Not shoot to kill?

Are you for real?


This isn't the A Team

Shoot the kid's kneecaps off.