? So just playing? Yes. Actually doing something beyond that? No.
Lol there's no excuse for shooting a twelve year old dead on the spot who hasn't even done jack.
Usually I would agree and to an extent I do agree. Should he have been punished by law? Possibly, was this manslaughter, possibly. Of course this is a child so I want to throw every book available at him.
However this happened because a child was outside, unsupervised with a weapon, not a serious weapon but one that could, if it can blow the head off a squirrel, kill a small child. The officer, a rookie, arrived on the scene, the boy took an aggressive stance, pointing the gun at him, even as the officer moved away from the car. The boy thought it was a game because he was a baby and didn't understand the threat, people seem to be under the delusion recently that children think like adults, they don't. The officer panicked and fired.
If the boy had not been allowed to have a weapon and had not been unsupervised, if he did not know how to act like a little gang member, then none of this would have happened. Its not the boys fault, its partially the police officers fault and is very much the parents fault, the only innocent here was the boy.
The reason why the officer shot to kill escapes me, they shouldn't put guns in the hands of men who obviously do not have the mental capacity to use them.
@bold they should have used a tazer
@underlined that is kinda bullshit
Sadly its not. Children imprint, they learn to behave by what they see, granted I could have worded it better, but its the truth, a child who watches Disney princesses will at ten like pink dresses and ponies, a child who watches pop divas will behave like them. A boy who plays GTA and music videos where the people act like criminals and make it look cool will behave that way, just like how kids watching Hulk Hogan pretend to be like him, or like how I run around with a scarf on my head pretending to be Maid Marion because I just watch Robin Hood when I was a kid.
What he should have done was his job by acting calmly and rationally, he was obviously too timid and cowardly for the job
This is more a tragedy than a crime, this police officer was not suited to the job and it ended in disaster
? So just playing? Yes. Actually doing something beyond that? No.
Yes, playing, I don't think for a second that he would have hurt anyone, the trouble is because he had been influenced by a certain thing, he thought it was cool to act that way, as a child he didn't understand what the consequences might be, it was just a game to him, he should not, at twelve even know how to pose or act like that, a gun at that age should be an alien thing.
The thing is, its not the music, game or movies fault, it wasn't made for kids, it was made for adults, few of who imprint, its the parents fault for allowing there child to see these things
