An officer in upstate New York shot and killed a teen fleeing while pointing a replica gun, police said Saturday.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17056255

An officer in upstate New York shot and killed a teen fleeing while pointing a replica gun, police said Saturday.

  • southsamuraiEnglish
    41•5 months ago

    Ehhh, you’re dealing with an idiot kid (and all kids are idiots to some degree) and a supposedly trained professional.

    I would place the weight of fault on the officer and/or whoever trained them.

    Yeah, you should always teach your kids about firearm safety and drill into them to never, ever carry one at all until they’re adults. And that includes anything that can propel a projectile that isn’t obviously and visibly a toy.

    But the truth is that a 13 year old was target that got shot. By an adult in body armor, with training. No shot had been fired because you can’t mistake a bb gun sound for even a 22 going off. So there was no active shooter here.

    It’s another bad shooting that’s going to get swept under the rug.

    • @yeather@lemmy.caEnglish
      -12•5 months ago

      On that note, 13 is more than enough to understand these things. I had bb guns when I was around 13 and always knew never to take take the orange tip off, bring it around in public, and never show it to people that didn’t understand. At the end of the day, the cop and the parents are at fault.