Dark_Arc , 4 months ago

It’s hard to tell if the shot was intentional. The office is talking to the kid and exiting his vehicle when he shoots him. Cops aim at your center, not your hands.

It would be one heck of a coincidence if this kid just so happened to get shot dead in the middle of the hand that was holding the fake gun.

Orange tips haven’t stopped police from shooting people in the past.

The point isn’t that they haven’t stopped it. The point is this toy gun wasn’t one of those toy guns; the officer had no clear marking to go off of. You can go on to say “he would’ve shot him anyways” but that’s your bias, not anything we can know for sure either way.

I’m not seeing anywhere that the cop had his BAC tested

The point is that wasn’t an allegation against the officer by the kid, any other officers, or in any of his prior incidents/suspensions; i.e., there’s no reason to believe that was the case here based in reported facts.

I’m not sure what your point is. Should police treat teens in your area as threats because some are carrying real guns?

The point is that this isn’t Mayberry and there was reason for the officer to believe that this teenager they’d never met, in an area that’s had problems with this, posed a real threat to them. People under 25 are (sadly) responsible for the majority of violent crime in the city currently.

This cop has already proven he’s a danger and hasn’t faced any real consequences.

Well, we’ll see. The citizen oversight board is new and untested. The mayor is similarly new and untested (but passionate about the issue). The office of chief of police is in transition and currently unfilled.