The cop thought it was a real gun. It looked like a real gun. And a BB gun has the word GUN in it. So what's the issue? The child should not have had it. Now he lost his life which is terribly sad. White people aren't gonna give U a chance to prove you aren't doing something wrong. This is why it's so foolish in the first place to let a child have a weapon like object and one that looked real. What is a parent promoting when they give a child a BB gun? Why let them play with an object like that? BB guns have been known to cause serious damage. And why was it at the rec center? U guys have to realize that these cops will shoot you if you reach for something when they instruct you to put your hands up.
First of all bb guns are in no way illegal or immoral. Regular guns aren't considered illegal or immoral. So there should be nothing wrong with a kid owning a bb gun. Especially in a state like ohio where they be hunting and farming and shyt anyway. Not like he was posted on the block in ny waving around a bb pistol.
Second of all it was a kid vs two trained police officers. One a veteran. I as a grown man know that if the cops tell me to freeze and i so much as turn towards them i'm gonna get smoked. You can't expect a 12 year old kid to realize that. At 13 years old I didn't even realize that and i wasn't exactly a late bloomer when it came to dealing with police.
Cops are supposed to be proffessionals. What kinda professional walks up and immediately shoots a kid? First of all they could have approached him in a different way in the first place. Had it been some little white kid with a real pistol they woulda ran up guns drawn? No. They woulda staged a "tactical takedown".
You think if this had been a white neighborhood they woulda walked up a fukking community center and shot into a group of kids? No they woulda had to stage a tactical take down. But cuz there skin was the wrong color the cops gave no fukks. They came to the scene ready to kill something. And its that simple.
And again this kid was 12 years old. IF the story went down how they say it went down? He was obviously scared. He was obviously not some kind of hardened criminal.
He had the gun sitting on the table. Cops pulled up. He snatched the gun up and put it in his waistband cuz he was SCARED. Any real criminal would never do some shyt like that right in front of police. Cops hopped out the car most likely barking orders at him from several feet away with their guns drawn. He probably thought they wanted him to drop the gun so he tried to comply. Now hes dead.
Those cops and there laws are scum. And btw fukk A COPS life. As a cop YOU make the decision to "risk your life" protecting the community. So stop acting like little pussies and go fukking RISK IT. If you can't even wait to see if someones gonna raise a gun before you start shooting then maybe you shouldn't be a cop. If you're an antsy little bytch boy then maybe you shouldn't be a cop. I know 4 year olds with more balls then these evil fukks.