24-11-2014, 08:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 24-11-2014, 08:18 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
In the USA, another child shot dead by police. Child was doing nothing but playing with a toy gun. He was aged 12. If the police shoot to kill all children with toy guns, there won't be many children left....
CLEVELAND A rookie police officer has just shot a 12-yr-old child to death on a playground.
The child was playing with a toy BB gun.
Police claim that the toy looked real and that they were "forced" to shoot the child.
However, the community and the boy's family say that the cops were trigger-happy.
They believe that the cops were trigger-happy for several reasons:
1) The citizen who called 911 on the boy clearly warned the dispatcher that child's toy gun was fake(raw recording below). This means that a warning was given ahead of time from which any reasonably sane and intelligent person can extract two facts: (a) we are dealing with just a small child playing on a playground, not an adult, nor a criminal, and (b) the child's toy is fake. To any normal conscious human being, these two facts entail that there is zero chance of an actual deadly threat.
(If you have been trained day-in and day-out to be in a constant state of cowardly, irrational fear toward your fellow citizens that's to say, if you are a modern day police officer then, sure, you might "fear for your life" in front of a harmless child.)
2) The boy did not act aggressively toward the police there was no verbal or physical confrontation, as admitted by the police commentary itself. He never at any time pointed the toy at officers. That's worth repeating: the child never, at any time, threatened the officers or pointed the toy at them. He was merely playing on the playground.
3) The police should be trained to distinguish between a live threat and a playful 12-yr-old child. They should not just blindly open fire and shoot non-aggressive people simply for holding an object, gun or otherwise.
4) Even if the boy's toy HAD been a real gun which it wasn't, but let's assume for the moment that it was, just for the sake of argument the 2nd amendment of the constitution gives citizens the right to keep and bear arms. The police do not have the right to just blow away anybody for holding a gun.
Due to these reasons and more, the police indeed seem to be trigger-happy at best; eager to use force without discretion so they can pretend to be "heroes" and get career boosts, at worst.
The incident began when a rookie officer and his partner pulled into the parking lot and noticed some people near the playground, after receiving a 911 call, according to reports.
The 911 caller told the dispatcher that the boy's toy was fake.
The rookie cop showed up to the scene and claims that he saw a "black gun" resting on a table.
He claims that the child went and picked up the bb gun and put it in his waistband.
Why the cop simply did not rush the child and prevent him from picking up the "gun" when he first saw it on the table remains a mystery.
[B] Listen to 911 Call
[/B](my question, however, is why would someone call the police about a child with a fake gun....unless they want that child to be shot?! The police should be convicted of murder and the 911 caller needs to be in Court too.)
CLEVELAND A rookie police officer has just shot a 12-yr-old child to death on a playground.
The child was playing with a toy BB gun.
Police claim that the toy looked real and that they were "forced" to shoot the child.
However, the community and the boy's family say that the cops were trigger-happy.
They believe that the cops were trigger-happy for several reasons:
1) The citizen who called 911 on the boy clearly warned the dispatcher that child's toy gun was fake(raw recording below). This means that a warning was given ahead of time from which any reasonably sane and intelligent person can extract two facts: (a) we are dealing with just a small child playing on a playground, not an adult, nor a criminal, and (b) the child's toy is fake. To any normal conscious human being, these two facts entail that there is zero chance of an actual deadly threat.
(If you have been trained day-in and day-out to be in a constant state of cowardly, irrational fear toward your fellow citizens that's to say, if you are a modern day police officer then, sure, you might "fear for your life" in front of a harmless child.)
2) The boy did not act aggressively toward the police there was no verbal or physical confrontation, as admitted by the police commentary itself. He never at any time pointed the toy at officers. That's worth repeating: the child never, at any time, threatened the officers or pointed the toy at them. He was merely playing on the playground.
3) The police should be trained to distinguish between a live threat and a playful 12-yr-old child. They should not just blindly open fire and shoot non-aggressive people simply for holding an object, gun or otherwise.
4) Even if the boy's toy HAD been a real gun which it wasn't, but let's assume for the moment that it was, just for the sake of argument the 2nd amendment of the constitution gives citizens the right to keep and bear arms. The police do not have the right to just blow away anybody for holding a gun.
Due to these reasons and more, the police indeed seem to be trigger-happy at best; eager to use force without discretion so they can pretend to be "heroes" and get career boosts, at worst.
The incident began when a rookie officer and his partner pulled into the parking lot and noticed some people near the playground, after receiving a 911 call, according to reports.
The 911 caller told the dispatcher that the boy's toy was fake.
The rookie cop showed up to the scene and claims that he saw a "black gun" resting on a table.
He claims that the child went and picked up the bb gun and put it in his waistband.
Why the cop simply did not rush the child and prevent him from picking up the "gun" when he first saw it on the table remains a mystery.
[B] Listen to 911 Call
[/B](my question, however, is why would someone call the police about a child with a fake gun....unless they want that child to be shot?! The police should be convicted of murder and the 911 caller needs to be in Court too.)
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"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass