Young boy Bain Dead after pointing air gun at Police

[Nilsen]

Originally posted by Delirium
Yea, look at Beet1e.

beatle is not baind dead, he is just british

[MrRiplEy[H]]

On a related note the district attourney just sued a police officer in finland for firing at a convenient store robber who tried to run him over with his getaway car.

'Officer was trying to kill the criminal' he shot 6 rounds at the approaching car, one round hit the upper torso of the burglar. Is that f'ed up or what? The officer shot a fleeing criminal for christs sake!

[nirvana]

I wouldn't call myself a fan of the police, especially the local ones around here, but good lord.  If you point a gun at a police officer is he going to wait for you to pull the trigger and send a bullet at his head?  I don't care if a sniper could identify it as "fake" you point a GUN at a COP and your are DEAD.

[mora]

Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
Is that f'ed up or what?

Totally...

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
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?

What this article does NOT say, is that the orange end cap was painted black.   So I'm assuming you wouldn't have pulled the trigger after knowing this FACT?  

I agree 100% Sandman.

Karaya

[*NDM*JohnnyX]

Because a pellet to the eye and bouncing around in your soft gray matter can't kill you right? It's still a lethal weapon.

[lazs2]

ripley and mora... I would ten times rather have someone shoot at me than to atempt to run me over with a car.  

And... Apparently beets country believes that more guns = less trouble as more and more of their police force is being armed every year.

All the finger pointing little socialist lilly white countries are laughable.  As their minorities go up so does their crime and they simply don't and won't know how to handle it....

As allways... we are decades ahead of the trends here in the states.

lazs

[moose]

they were in a confined school hallway with probably poor lighting.. i dont think swat had broken out the rifles just yet

there is a very good reason they put the safety colors on guns like those. had it been a real weapon and the officers assumed it wasn't they might be burying a couple more honest people instead of one very dumb kid. no one to blame but himself.

[beet1e]

Lazs - there are still many good areas in this country where you can enjoy that Church bingo night feeling.

[Morpheus]

Originally posted by eskimo2
Young boy Bain Dead BEFORE pointing air gun at Police

no chit

[lasersailor184]

What this article does NOT say, is that the orange end cap was painted black. So I'm assuming you wouldn't have pulled the trigger after knowing this FACT?

I only skimmed the article.  In another article I did see that the orange cap was painted black.  So I just assumed CNN would say it too.  

Wait, I assumed CNN would say that?  BAD LASER!  BAD LASER!




It's very easy to throw around if's and but's now on this board.  But you have to analyze the position of the men on the ground.  Even if it was reported that the gun was fake, the police couldn't take this for gospel.  The gun looked identical to a 92FS (or so reported).  Until that cop held that fake gun in his hand, he couldn't have been sure it was real.

And then the kid TREATED the gun as if it were real.  He threatened to kill himself, then he ***TRIED TO AIM*** the gun at the SWAT officer.  In that situation, the officer had to act or risk being shot on faulty information.

[lasersailor184]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060115/D8F4PQT03.html

LONGWOOD, Fla. (AP) - The parents of a 15-year-old boy accused of terrorizing classmates with a pistol warned authorities the weapon likely was fake before police shot him in a middle school bathroom, a family attorney said Saturday.

The parents told the police that the kid ****PROBABLY**** had a fake pistol.

[DREDIOCK]

Sad story all the way around

[LePaul]

Yea, it was a no win all around.  Fault the cops all you want but it wont work (well, not that the lawyers will heed it).

*Probably* a fake gun?  And if it wasnt and we were burying a cop and a kid now?

I dont know about police but probablies and hopefully's are dangerous things to live around

[Hangtime]

Criminal Mind: 'Hey, if we paint a red band around the muzzel of the uzi's, the cops'll think we have pellet guns and not shoot.. and that could give us all the edge we need to waste those pigs before they waste US!'

The 'color coded' caps crap is just that.. liberal feel good BS that does not in the slightest affect the situation posed by any individual waving around what looks like a gun in a threating manner.

I'd say the cops reacted no diffrently to a firearm threat than I would..

Point a bar of soap at me that looks like any kind of firearm and I WILL shoot twice for center of mass and once for the head.

Welcome to Reality, Kid. Shame your exposure to it was terminal. Say 'hi' to Chuck Darwin for us.