I am trying to envision someone pointing what appears to be a gun at me or a loved one. How long would I give the person to shoot before I took action?
If you were confronted with an unknown person, would you wait 10 seconds before protecting yourself?
1. If you're in the habit of drawing-down on complete strangers minding their own business carrying rifles and/or BB guns, then you should be blamed as the cause of any altercation that follows.
2. If you shot this kid in the exact manner these cops did, you'd end up as someone's prison-ho. You're not allowed to behave like this, only cops are.
According to the article, he was shot in the back. This implies the kid was no danger to the cops at that point.
If he was turned around, the cops would have had at least a second warning before they would have returned fire.
Does that also apply to chickenfinger in your kid's cafeteria???
It was 10 seconds from reporting sighting to reporting shooting. Add in the time to get out of the car, give the warning, fire 8 shots, and then report the shooting.
That shaves a number of seconds off.
“If you were confronted with an unknown person, would you wait 10 seconds before protecting yourself”
Actually they were not confronted by the child with the toy. THEY CONFRONTED HIM. When you confront someone, yes even police are required to wait longer to see what is going on, than if the child had confronted them.