Baltimore Police gundown 13-year-old boy carrying a fake weapon

[88m3]

A Police Shooting Over a Fake Gun in Baltimore

City police shot and injured a 13-year-old boy carrying a fake weaponWednesday.

Jim Bourg / Reuters

Police in Baltimore shot a 13-year-old boy who was carrying a fake gun late Wednesday afternoon. The boy sustained non-life-threatening injuries.

Two officers saw the boy and what looked to be a weapon, and chased him. One officer soon after shot him. The Baltimore Sun reports:

[Police Commissioner Kevin] Davis said he had “no reason to believe that these officers acted inappropriately in any way,” saying the officers did not know whether the weapon was a gun or a replica. Davis also confirmed that the boy’s mother was taken in for questioning. He told reporters at the scene that “she knew” that he had left their home with the replica weapon.

On the other side of the city, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and others were gathered to mark the one-year anniversary of protests that erupted after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody. Wednesday’s shooting also occurred amidst a spike in violence in Baltimore. Justin Fenton of The Sun reports that in the last three days, 16 people have been shot and nine killed in the city.

The shooting comes just days after the city of Cleveland reached a settlement with the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was shot and killed by police in 2014 while carrying a toy gun. On Monday, officials announced the city agreed to pay $6 million.

A Police Shooting Over a Fake Gun in Baltimore

so sick of this shyt

 

[hashmander]

i don't know how to feel about this. not so cut and dry.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

i don't know how to feel about this. not so cut and dry.

It is cut and dry. If someone flashes what looks like a gun on you, are you going to wait to see if it's fake

 

[hashmander]

It is cut and dry. If someone flashes what looks like a gun on you, are you going to wait to see if it's fake

no but it's the running away part. then again you can't let someone you think has a gun get away, whether you shoot from behind or not. at least they didn't kill him.

 

[the cac mamba]

i dont think the police had any right to shoot, especially a kid running away

but just to clarify what the fake weapon is

 

[hashmander]

i dont think the police had any right to shoot, especially a kid running away

but just to clarify what the fake weapon is

this is why i say it's not cut and dry. he may be running away, but he has what you suspect is a gun and is running with it. unarmed people getting shot running away, should be a charge for the cop. suspected armed people getting shot running away.

 

[88m3]

this is why i say it's not cut and dry. he may be running away, but he has what you suspect is a gun and is running with it. unarmed people getting shot running away, should be a charge for the cop. suspected armed people getting shot running away.

Sounds like you're ready to slip into some jackboots. Justify shooting children running away from you, Brehs.

 

[hashmander]

Sounds like you're ready to slip into some jackboots. Justify shooting children running away from you, Brehs.

you figured me out, damn it.

forreal though, let's clear some stuff up first: it doesn't matter to you if the gun was real or not right? or is your reaction because you know the gun is fake? if the real/fake issue doesn't matter because of how that gun looks then you're ok with the police letting armed kids run around the hood simply because they turned their back and ran away?

 

[88m3]

you figured me out, damn it.

forreal though, let's clear some stuff up first: it doesn't matter to you if the gun was real or not right? or is your reaction because you know the gun is fake? if the real/fake issue doesn't matter because of how that gun looks then you're ok with the police letting armed kids run around the hood simply because they turned their back and ran away?

de escalate the situation? non lethal solution? Let the kid go? I know we're all thugs and deserve to die in hail of gunfire despite our age because we look like adults or scary or whatever


They shouldn't sell toy guns and hell they probably shouldn't sell airsoft guns.

The mother failed.

Congress failed.

States failed.

The cops shouldn't be shooting anyone running away let alone children(last I knew they weren't even allowed to).

 

[ExodusNirvana]

I gotta know more about this situation before I feel comfortable commenting on it

 

[Starman]

I gotta know more about this situation before I feel comfortable commenting on it

I'm not touching this either way. #bytchassness

 

[JahFocus CS]

de escalate the situation? non lethal solution? Let the kid go? I know we're all thugs and deserve to die in hail of gunfire despite our age because we look like adults or scary or whatever


They shouldn't sell toy guns and hell they probably shouldn't sell airsoft guns.

The mother failed.

Congress failed.

States failed.

The cops shouldn't be shooting anyone running away let alone children(last I knew they weren't even allowed to).

Good post for once.

What crime did the kid commit? The only situations in which shooting people would be justified is when there is an imminent threat to life. A kid walking or running with a weapon or toy weapon doesn't fit that criteria.

 

[Poh SIti Dawn]

i dont think the police had any right to shoot, especially a kid running away

but just to clarify what the fake weapon is

that's the thing, the gun was fake and the kid was running away.

also how come it's always black people getting shot for having guns when the law says it's okay for all to carry (in certain states).