Geez
We still have our fair share of JBT bootlickers don’t we?
Truly sad
No excuse for shooting down a 13 year old boy less he’s firing or its imminent
The more tactical gear these jackasses get the more cowardly and panicky
A mere shadow of lawmen from youth
What if I shot them if I felt threatened
Same wankers here would be crying for gibbet for my corpse
Is Santa Rosa low on cocker spaniels for them to shoot
Back in the 60s they had -really- good toy guns with wood stocks, loud powder caps and the whole shebang.
I ran all over Hell’s half acre with very realistic looking pistols and rifles.
At no time did anyone I encountered find it necessary to fill me full of lead.
Back then we had peace officers.
Now we have cops posing as paramilitary without the noble restraint.
This is bullshit.
I have a very close relative, now early 20s, with Asperger Syndrome, now renamed High Functioning Autism. They have a “social” age of about 2/3 of their chronological age. Even though they can often stay in their academic year grade, their maturity is very delayed.
What matters in a case like this is that especially under stress, they CANNOT process a situation like “neurotypical” folks. If a cop screamed at a 13-year-old with A.S. standing a yard onto a street during a parade, for example, they would totally freeze up. Deer in headlights. Can’t process. Can’t move. Can’t speak. The mental gears are jammed.
Ditto if a cop screamed, “Get down on the ground!” or “Drop the gun.” They would freeze up. Their gears would jam up, for example, at “Drop the gun!” Their first and only thought would be “Who? I don’t have a gun.” They are “literal thinkers,” and to a kid with HFA, a plastic replica is NOT a gun, it’s a toy. So the order has no meaning.
Parents of kids with HFA/A.S. live in fear of a situation exactly like this. In the time that their kid is frozen, unable to process the crisis situation, Joe Rambo Cop would shoot them down dead on the street. In a situation like this, for a kid with A.S. attempting to process with frozen mental gears, ten seconds is a blink of an eye.
To a cop, it might be a long time. Not to a “stuck” kid with A.S. during a crisis. For him, it’s a microsecond, and then he’s dead at a cop’s hand.
“No excuse for shooting down a 13 year old boy less he’s firing or its imminent”
The “toy” was indistinguishable from a real AK47.
Age was irrelevant; clearly he was old enough to do harm with an AK47.
Refusing multiple orders from cops, then turning the gun at them, practically defines “imminent” as you use it.
I’m no “JBT bootlicker” I just understand judicious use of deadly force.