i dont think the cops even saw a weapon...it happened too fast...at best they saw an object but couldnt possibly determine it was a weapon...they wasnt going to investigate either...the pigs were going to shoot at him if he had anything on him...it couldve been a playstation joystick or a tv remote and it wouldnt have mattered...
The way I see it, these are the three most important things to ask about the incident:
1. Whether they were informed that there was someone with a gun.....or they were informed there was someone with a gun that was probably fake
I'm not even gonna focus on the boy's age, or whether they knew he was underage.....a 12-year-old boy can still shoot you. As long as they weren't informed that the caller said the gun was probably fake, then I could see them getting a pass on that part. Whether 12 or 22, if you're a cop and you hear that someone's walking around pointing a (real) gun at people, your guard is gonna be way the fukk up (unless you hear it's a 7-year-old or some shyt). Fair enough....but if they were told about the gun probably being fake - AND that it was a young boy - then that definitely puts their fast-and-up-close approach under deserved scrutiny
2. Whether or not they warned him....and EXACTLY when they first allegedly told him to put his hands up
Someone said something earlier along the lines of "even if the cops heard the gun was PROBABLY fake, there was still a chance of it being real and they still had to be careful"....okay, fair enough. They could still approach cautiously, aim their guns at him and yell out a clear warning. But did they actually give him a clear warning to put his hands up? We don't know for sure.....but that's where their fast approach bites them in the ass
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The average person will look at that video, see them shooting him literally one second after exiting the car
, and wonder how the fukk they had time to even warn him in that second. Mind you, it's POSSIBLE that they did warn him in that small window of time as they rolled up on him....but it still isn't a good look on that video at all
3. Did the boy actually fully pull out the toy gun, where the cops would be able to see it?
Unfortunately, the video certainly suggests that he might have (assuming it wasn't edited that way). The way his right arm is positioned right before he got shot.....looks like he's pulling something from his waist (I can't think of another likely gesture he could've been making, where his arm would be bent up like that). Whatever he pulled out, he would have already pulled it out completely and within their view. His right arm was raised up and almost completely bent, and his right hand went from his waist to his chest.
Also remember: the video is shown frame-by-frame, which could make his movements look faster than they actually were, to some viewers. Between the frame where he raised his right arm, and the very next frame where he gets shot.....that could've been sufficient time for the cop to see that it was (what LOOKED like) a real gun he was pulling out. I think we can all agree it only takes about a second (or less) to see someone pull something from their waist, and recognize it to be a gun....how fast the person pulls it out is a factor, though....
This case will be interesting to watch over......dude was TWELVE. And there's video of the incident. If Mike Brown was the spark, this just might be the gasoline.....
not in 2014. im just going to blindly say they fukked up. i cant tell if the vid is sped up or if they came speeding in. I feel the cacs have tried to wear down my patience with other cases and then release shytty grainy footage for me to squint and guess, when the got the clear copy right in front of them, in hopes that I give up.
The kid got clapped quick. Esau can go into a theater and kill a dozen people and injuries dozens more and get treated with kid gloves. How is it that our people still think Esau is going to change? I don't even pity our people that think like that anymore. I laugh at people like that.
