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California Sheriff's Deputies Shoot, Kill 13-Year-Old
Breitbart ^ | 23 Oct 2013, 12:15 PM

Posted on 10/23/2013 1:44:50 PM PDT by null and void

Two Sonoma County deputies on patrol saw the boy walking with what appeared to be a high-powered weapon Tuesday afternoon in Santa Rosa, sheriff's Lt. Dennis O'Leary said.

The replica gun resembled an AK-47 with a black magazine cartridge and brown butt, according to a photograph released by the sheriff's office. Deputies would only learn after the shooting that it wasn't an actual firearm, according to O'Leary.

After spotting the boy, the deputies called for backup and repeatedly ordered him to drop the gun, O'Leary said in a news release. It wasn't clear whether he pointed the replica assault rifle at the deputies or made any type of threatening gesture. The sheriff's office referred calls to the Santa Rosa Police Department, which did not immediately return a call for comment.

O'Leary said the deputies fired several rounds from their handguns immediately after issuing the orders to drop the rifle.

"First, I heard a single siren and within seconds I heard seven shots go off, sounded like a nail gun, is what I thought it was," he said.

The boy fell to the ground on top of the rifle, according to O'Leary. He said the deputies ordered him to move away before approaching him and putting him in handcuffs.

They began administering first aid and called for paramedics, who pronounced him dead at the scene. Deputies also found a plastic handgun in the boy's waistband, O'Leary said. The deputies, who have not been identified, have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard after a shooting, O'Leary said.

The family was back at their mobile home Tuesday night after identifying the boy's body

The newspaper quoted the boy's mother, Sujey Annel Cruz Cazarez, as saying, ""Why did they kill him? Why?"

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To: boop

Its not against the law to be stupid, but the cops can kill you for it anyway.


61 posted on 10/23/2013 7:01:06 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
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To: arthurus

You are so FOS. You think you could even get three people together to do the BS you are talking?

One of those would be an informant in a hot second and you think for a flipping minute you are going to beat the propaganda machine that would turn your little world upside down?

Don’t project your little fantasies on the internet, it’s always a punk move.


62 posted on 10/23/2013 9:39:19 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: Molon Labbie

I am not advocating it. I do believe, however, that if there is any testosterone left in the society, that it will happen. The police assault on the citizenry will only get worse. There is a breaking point or it expands to total terrorization of the population.


63 posted on 10/24/2013 4:40:02 AM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: arthurus

Arthurus, this is NOT new. It’s just reported more. The police of my father’s generation split your skull for just talking back. Not advocating that either, but when the police told you to get off the corner you did. And if you got an urban turban for your trouble, then people back then didn’t blame the police, they blamed you.


64 posted on 10/24/2013 9:50:37 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: TurboZamboni

With 12 year olds shooting teachers at school, this could also have been in the back of the craw of these cops.....Maybe these SHERRIF’S deputies need to get stronger craws?


65 posted on 10/24/2013 10:11:31 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Molon Labbie

The police of my father’s generation split your skull for just talking back.....A little hyperbole, I’m sure. When I stopped, frisked some people and ‘advised’ them to head home, (You are pissed, drunk or being off your meds) and I was told to “go F yourself!” I merely took control of the situation and stopped more horsepoopy from going down for the rest of my shift. In the morning, if they acted like anything near to a rational person, I’d open the cell bars and tell them “don’t come back.” Most always asked “What am I being prosecuted / arrested for?” I said Nothing, for being a dumbass and not hurting anybody else. I had a LOT of gratuitous informants. I didn’t work for fines.


66 posted on 10/24/2013 10:25:25 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Molon Labbie
Back then the police didn't shoot as their first action. And "fleeing felons" were liable to get shot if they did not stop when ordered. I did hear, "stop or I will shoot you ass!" once, long ago. I stopped. According to the item, the officer yelled for the kid to drop the gun then immediately shot him. No one called the officer to the scene with a complaint. The kid was a target of opportunity. This is not an isolated incident. This is police SOP. Either the nation will become 1935 Russia with its NKVD in its several iterations and a totally cowed populace, or people will start to fight back. There is obviously no judicial or legislative recourse.
67 posted on 10/24/2013 1:30:14 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: arthurus
Eventually people will begin to stalk and kill the cops who do these things. Then it will be warfare between the cops and the citizenry. Police will not patrol, as such, they will drive around in fleets of armored cars and will shoot people from inside their rolling forts to intimidate the populace. That is The Terror as it begins in the US of A. It has already begun with shootings by police that are becoming more and more like random killings.

Only an idiot would choose to continue living in such a country. If we don't revolt LONG before that happens, then every idiot still living in this country deserves what is coming.
68 posted on 10/24/2013 2:01:20 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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To: arthurus
"Andy was a very loved student, a very popular, very handsome young man, very smart and capable,'" she said Wednesday. "Our community has been rocked by his loss."

and yet you morons will do absolutely nothing about it! This entire state should just be carpet nuked if they care this little about justice and the protection of children! Nuke the entire damned state!
69 posted on 10/24/2013 2:04:30 PM PDT by Wanderer99
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