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Columbus cops shoot and kill a 13 year old with a BB gun
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Francokid1
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Do you honestly believe the 13 year old kid pointed the BB gun at the officer?
Why exactly would he do that? To poke the officer in the eye with a BB pellet?
If I remember how this went down correctly, one of the other kids witnessed what happened.
ThisGuy
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Gives them a reason to accept child murder brought on by a racist.
Never mind the fact that a child took three in the back.
A lot of kids are real dumb at 13. False bravado and stupidity are deadly.
You're saying he didn't? Where did you read that?
Jmanunknown
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You know its kinda hard to point a gun when your running away from someone and they shoot in the upper left chest and upper left side of the abdomen and in the left side temple.
The cop shot him because he pulled this on him
Looks like a Springfield XD. Shit looks real
Most likely this is what happened.
Yeah. Regardless of what else happens, the manufacturer of that BB gun should be sued into oblivion.
Nice edit.
I like your idea.
I'm not defending the cops but that's a completely different state and doesn't really have anything to do with this.
airmangataosenai
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Did you also miss the source of that report is one which has been banned for false and inaccurate reporting? I am going to assume it was Occupy Democrats which more often than not get the story wrong. Trusting them is akin to trusting Drudge Report as a primary source. Maybe even worse.
HUH? What do you mean?
What's your opinion of it? I don't know what relevance it has in this thread
Familienoberhauptvogel
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if it's shots in the back it should be an open and shut case of wrongdoing by the police regardless of pretty much any other circumstances.
PabloBolivar
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They sell these guns to look EXACTLY like the real thing. That BB gun is sold at Walmart.
The Washington Post had a good article a few months ago on toy guns with statistics on police shootings. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-two-years-police-killed-86-people-brandishing-guns-that-look-real--but-arent/2016/12/18/ec005c3a-b025-11e6-be1c-8cec35b1ad25_story.html
Police in the US have killed 86 people with fake guns over the last 2 years. Mostly BB or pellet guns. The age breakdown is mainly 25-34 years old (males of course). The racial breakdown: 54 white, 19 black, 11 Hispanic, 2 other. So, mostly 20-30 something year old white men with BB guns. The oldest guy shot was 77 while riding a scooter. (wow...wtf is a 77 year old doing riding a scooter? probably had mental issues)
If I had kids, I'd never let them play with toy guns like I used to do as a kid. It really is hard to tell the toy guns from real ones. I think all toy guns should be painted in bright orange. But, I guess kids would just spray paint them anyway. Making them look like exact replicas of the real thing just shouldn't be happening.
I mean, the officer did shoot him. He just didn't die from his wounds. I get what you're trying to say, but I don't think this case is a good example of that.
ryutaro's mama
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By not bothering to humanize the people they shoot.
You can do anything when you strip the victim of their humanity.
See: The history of the world.
Didn't you say "let's put this guy in the ground". Yeah you're not helping anybody with that mentality.
PabloBolivar
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I think that was just hyperbole. I don't think he's really talking about going out and killing people. I hope not anyway.
Is that a fact? Or is that what the police officer reported?
What's the dead kid saying happened?
Jmanunknown
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yes I edited it because I originally was in this thread posting go through the thread history. The first report from the family coroner said he was shot in the back while running away. The story died and the county coroner's report was not released until two months later which gave specific locations. The thing people are choosing to ignore was no one disputed that he was shot while running away.
Wafflecakes
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As someone who teaches 13 year old middle school students every day... yes.
13 year olds are remarkably stupid about dealing with authority figures. Might be the most dangerous age.
I'm choosing to trust what the grand jury decided with the evidence presented.
Big Baybee
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You also trust the jury in Oklahoma?
Oh you sweet summer child.
It's not the grand jury you should be looking at, it's the prosecutor. There's a saying in legal circles that basically goes that a prosecutor can get an indictment on a ham sandwich if he wants. If the prosecutor doesn't want to try the case, he'll present very weakly to the grand jury and then blame them for not getting an indictment.
Jmanunknown
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grand jury's are terrible in these types of situations. Both Tamir Rice's killer and John Crawford's killer are both free as a bird right now living life to its fullest while they are rotting in cemeteries as constant reminders of how awful the american justice system is for black males.
Mammoth Jones
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Mother. Fucking. Preach.
Mammoth Jones
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13 year old me absolutely would pull a bb gun out cause I know I'm in trouble and am gonna give it to the cop and have no concept that he'd unload rounds in my chest just for having it or would actually perceive me as a threat.
13 year old me would be worried about my dad whooping my ass not a cop killing me.
So it's the prosecutors fault then?
Whats wrong with Oklahoma?
I wasn't there so I can't say for sure. You do have people that would refuse to indict cops for almost anything, but if he had pushed hard enough for an indictment he probably could have gotten one.
NervousXtian
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Wrong case Stinkles.
Also, not surprised, the evidence didn't seem to fall in line with this being anything other than a justified shooting, though still sad to see the loss of life of someone so young for something so pointless.
Vital Tundra
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I'm calling BULLSHIT. No way 13 year old takes a BB gun out on a cop thats chasing him. Like, what? You serious?
RPGCrazied
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Not surprising. Cops can murder, lets just get that out of the way. They always say they fear for their life, just an excuse to murder and get away with it.
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