gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 4 months agoPolice in New York shoot and kill 13-year-old holding a pellet gun, authorities saywww.pbs.orgexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
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An officer in upstate New York shot and killed a teen fleeing while pointing a replica gun, police said Saturday.
minus-squareSeaJ@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-24 months ago One of them fled and pointed what appeared to be a handgun at the officers, according to a statement by the Utica Police Department. If the footage confirms this, it makes sense that the officer shot him. Don’t point guns or gun replicas at people. But they were fleeing and pointed a gun at him? Either the reporting is shitty or it did not happen like the police say it happened.
minus-squareFrozengyro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoYou can run and point a gun backwards/shoot in their general direction.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·4 months agoAnd unless you’re some sort of trick shot marksman, you won’t be any danger to the cops.
minus-squareThetimefarm@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoI mean shooting randomly is always dangerous to someone. People get hit by stray bullets literally every day in america.
minus-squareTexas_Hangover@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down2·4 months agoPatsy Parisi over here.
If the footage confirms this, it makes sense that the officer shot him. Don’t point guns or gun replicas at people.
But they were fleeing and pointed a gun at him? Either the reporting is shitty or it did not happen like the police say it happened.
You can run and point a gun backwards/shoot in their general direction.
And unless you’re some sort of trick shot marksman, you won’t be any danger to the cops.
I mean shooting randomly is always dangerous to someone. People get hit by stray bullets literally every day in america.
Patsy Parisi over here.