I got in an interesting discussion with my coworker after this went down: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Andy_LopezDr. Medulla wrote:It's funny, whenever there's a police shooting of kids with toy guns, I think of all the cap guns I had as a kid. Realistic enough looking, I suppose. In today's climate, would cops be as fine with me and my friends running around the neighbourhood with guns drawn?BostonBeaneater wrote:Would someone please call the police to come and shoot this child?
NYC c. 1980s
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Basically a 13-year old was carrying an AK-47 replica. Cop pulls up, sounds siren, the kid turns around and apparently raises the weapon, they shoot him.
My initial thought was, if you are a cop and someone is carrying something that really looks like a real gun, obeys orders/warnings and raises at the cop, I don't really see any other option. Coworker brought up a good point. If you are in a sleepy suburb and see a kid with what looks like an AK-47, you need to use some critical thinking and think about the odds that a kid in a suburb is walking around in the middle of the day with a real assault rifle.