oh boy
OHHHHHHHHHH FUCKING BOY,
When cops keep lying about what happened I get to twist the narrative whichever way I feel like.
Do all cops just roll up within several feet of someone if they suspect that person has an actual gun? Wut? And then holler from the passenger side window? Wut? Then after neutralizing the “threat” they don’t attempt any cpr and just let him bleed out? Wut? And then lie about what happened? Wut?
Cops wouldn’t get half the flack they get if they’d stop lying about what happened in the first place.
Kids play with toy guns constantly, even if it looked real they should have just stayed in their car and talked to him. If your first impulse when you see a kid with something that resembles a gun is to jump out and shoot them then you shouldn’t be a cop.
The most chilling aspect of this is that they led the wee boy bleed out infront of em until the FBI turned up and dealt with it, they knew they fucked up as soon as they called in a 20 year old dude with a gun got taken down, kid was probably trying to show the cops his toy. Fucking 12 year old.
The same shit that didn’t make sense with the Michael Brown situation doesn’t make sense with this.
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If Michael Brown was so strong that he felt like Hulk Hogan fighting with a 5 year old, then why would you get out of a car to chase this Hulk of a man demon? By that logic, you would have no way of physically restraining him.
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If this kid is walking around with a gun why would you ride directly to him? Why wouldn’t you use two cop cars to surround him, and order him, from a distance, to put his hands up and to lie on the ground?
Both of these situations leave deadly force as the only possible solution based on the situations created by these officers.
- The kid went for the gun. Stupidest thing he could have ever done. However, I think the kid got scared out of his mind, realized they were cops, and went for his gun to put it down–to show them it was fake. At that point, he didn’t want anything to do with that gun. Shame on whoever gave him that gun.
I know, I know. That’s just the way it is. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
“Pulls out gun Officer this gun isn’t even…”
That seems to be the most likely thing to happen. Not every household teaches you how to talk or deal with the police. To say something like this is common sense seems a little farfetched imo. Not giving something to a police officer unless prompted is not something that everyone knows, especially a 12 year old boy. I don’t know too many preteens that expect to have a confrontation with any police officer.
Not for someone who isn’t an adult. Why do you think children get a lower punishment for a crime than an adult who commits the same crime.
Even lawmakers and the courtrooms fully expect non-adults to be ignorant of the law.
I’m increasingly confused by police protocol. How do those open carry protestards not get blown to bits?
Did we not just go through this with the Walmart shooting? This is like the same exact shit except outside, and in Walmart case someone called in with false details.
Holy shit man.
Not gonna get into a blame game here.
But it must be scary being black in the states. One wrong move and you’re a goner. Wow.
Cops act like ED-209 when they enter the hood.
you guys are also not aware of another crucial piece of info. The 9/11 caller told the dispatch that the gun was probobly fake. The dispatch failed to mention the officers that it was fake. Whats worse is that the cops didn’t come out and proceded with caution and cover, 2 vs 1, attempting to get this kid to surrender. They rolled up and did a drive by…
The important question here is will anything come of this besides the two cops getting a 2 week paid vacation?
No?
Then what purpose does venting our collective frustration have beyond in and of itself? And to the illiterate dumbass who responds with “so you’re saying we shouldn’t talk about this?” shut up I’m asking a legit question.
If the dispatcher had told the officers it was probably fake, what would that have done? Would they have waited for the kid to pull the gun out and explain to them how fake it is? That’s against procedure and basic common sense.
I don’t know. I guess to see the amount of people who continue to defend cops lying instead of telling the truth?
I’m not sure what your outrage is? Kid pops orange safety cap off gun, waives it around and points it at people. Cop shows up tells him to put hands up. Instead of putting his hands up he reaches for gun. Kid gets shot. It sucks, but hopefully the lesson here is don’t try to scare people by pretending you have a gun. If a cop tells you to put your hands up, put your fucking hands up.
(Yeah…this is unfortunate on all accounts.)
The cops fucked up for the reasons that The Furious One explained. That said, as much as I don’t want to blame the victim, having watched another video prior to this, seeing him just randomly take it out and point it out at some people before, which is what got him called in the first place, doesn’t make me that sympathetic to him as fucked up as it is. I understand he was just playing around, but the other people don’t know that. This would have been (a lot?) less likely to happen if America didn’t have its God-blessed gun fetish and toy makers that didn’t make guns that could easily be made to look real, which gives people (read: cops) more pretext to shoot you by “mistake”. You should never be too young to know that people react poorly to guns pointed at them if you’re being allowed to handle a gun, even a fake one, in the first place.
Still, I’m not absolving the cops at all and they need to held accountable, just like the 911 operator who failed to relay that it was probably a fake gun needs to be taken to task and probably fired for making it all the more likely a kid got fatally shot by not relaying such vital information.
As for what this will mean to the rest of America as far as spurring action for legitimate change…it’s not going to mean shit. It’s just another day. (Happy Thanksgiving.)
…They’re not black or brown?
maybe…just maybe they wouldn’t have rolled up in drive by fashion? (which in of itself is wrong and not following procedure)… did that not cross your mind? or are you just a dumbass?..dumbass
how can a caller who got a glimpse of the boy know this was fake, yet a supposedly experienced officer has not the wit to tell the difference?
The Wire spoiler
Spoiler
It took a random kid to kill Omar
