Author Topic: Young boy Bain Dead after pointing air gun at Police (Read 1107 times)

Yeager · « **on:** January 14, 2006, 09:32:58 PM »

No doubt most have heard the story. What I find troubling is that Police knew the gun was not a lethal weapon, and would not allow the young boys father in to try and talk his son out of making a fatal mistake.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/14/teen.shot/index.html

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 14, 2006, 09:57:11 PM »

Bull**** the police knew it was not a real gun. Right now there are so many conflicting stories out. It would not surprise me if someone was actually trying to throw a bad light on the police.

Edit: Actually, I've been thinking about it. If the police were told that the gun might be fake, would they nonchalantly assume it is?

eskimo2 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 14, 2006, 11:44:41 PM »

Young boy Bain Dead BEFORE pointing air gun at Police

Gunslinger · « **Reply #3 on:** January 15, 2006, 12:08:32 AM »

Pretty sad situation. It's easy to blame the police on this but I keep in mind that it was the kids actions that put them there. Pretty tragic, sounds like the cops blew it.

nirvana · « **Reply #4 on:** January 15, 2006, 12:13:24 AM »

Point a gun at a police officer and you take your chances. It was suicide by police, plain and simple.

NUKE · « **Reply #5 on:** January 15, 2006, 12:19:59 AM »

I blame the cops. If it were not for the cops, this kid would be alive today.

FiLtH · « **Reply #6 on:** January 15, 2006, 12:41:22 AM »

Better now as an airgun, than 3 years from now with a shotgun. People blaming the cops, just hate cops i guess. Im sure they said" Ya chief..they say its a bb gun...but we can still waste him...right?"

fartwinkle · « **Reply #7 on:** January 15, 2006, 12:49:36 AM »

Its easy for me or anyone else to second guess the cops they have a hard crappy job dealing with the kind of people that they do.

But someone with a scope should have been able to tell if it was a real gun or not.

The average target engagment for a police sniper is 75 yds or less so even a 4x scope would give enough detail to see what kind of gun it was.

Clearly the kid was troubled and after columbine the cops just aint gonna take any chances.

I feel sorry for the poor cop that shot the kid only to find out it was a pelet gun
it will be hard for him to deal with im sure.

A bad situation all the way around.

Sandman · « **Reply #8 on:** January 15, 2006, 01:26:17 AM »

This just in... the police are not playing a game.

Prime candidate for a Darwin award IMHO.

Yeager · « **Reply #9 on:** January 15, 2006, 02:21:47 AM »

I agree SM, but in this case I feel it is unusually pathetic.

JTs · « **Reply #10 on:** January 15, 2006, 02:26:13 AM »

police are a necessary evil. most are alright but like everything else theres always gotta be some that abuse their power

beet1e · « **Reply #11 on:** January 15, 2006, 03:47:32 AM »

so many guns, so much trouble...

Staga · « **Reply #12 on:** January 15, 2006, 04:12:44 AM »

More guns = less troubles

Nilsen · « **Reply #13 on:** January 15, 2006, 04:14:44 AM »

bain dead is always a bad thing

Delirium · « **Reply #14 on:** January 15, 2006, 04:23:48 AM »

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Originally posted by Nilsen
bain dead is always a bad thing

Yea, look at Beet1e.