Cop pulls gun on 11 year old boy

[Cainkane1]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/11-year-old-building-tree-fort-says-officer-pulled/nfQKK/

A young boy was building a fort when a neighbor called police to report some kids cuttin. g limbs off of trees. When the officer arrived he pulled his gun and told the kid to spread his legs on the ground. The cop then took the id home. The mother made an excessive force complaint agains the officer.

 

[Segnosaur]

Reading through the article, it seems like everything is based on the claims of the kids.

Has there been any independent confirmation that indeed the cops did draw their guns on the kids? (I don't think its totally outside the realm of possibility that the kids could have been fabricating the story.)

 

[TragicMonkey]

Appalling. What kind of cop can't even shoot a motionless 11 year old? Surely failing to take out such an easy target is grounds to suspend the cop until he gets some firing range practice.

 

[RenaissanceBiker]

Appalling. What kind of cop can't even shoot a motionless 11 year old? Surely failing to take out such an easy target is grounds to suspend the cop until he gets some firing range practice.

Practice at the firing range will improve your aim but the officer didn't miss, he failed to fire! We need to instill police officers with an honor code similar to samurai warriors who (according to reliable comic books I've read) may not return their swords to their sheaths unbloodied. If they draw their weapons, something has to bleed. This officer then would have had to choose between shooting the kid or shooting himself in the foot. "Sorry, kid. I just had these shoes shined."

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

The only way to stop a bad cop with a gun is with a good kid with a gun.

 

[smartcooky]

Practice at the firing range will improve your aim but the officer didn't miss, he failed to fire! We need to instill police officers with an honor code similar to samurai warriors who (according to reliable comic books I've read) may not return their swords to their sheaths unbloodied. If they draw their weapons, something has to bleed. This officer then would have had to choose between shooting the kid or shooting himself in the foot. "Sorry, kid. I just had these shoes shined."

Yeah man! Shoot first, ask questions later


PS: Its not Samurai who must draw blood if they draw their sword, its Gurkhas...

"In times past, it was said that once a kukri was drawn in battle, it had to "taste blood" - if not, its owner had to cut himself before returning it to its sheath."

 

[RenaissanceBiker]

PS: Its not Samurai who must draw blood if they draw their sword, its Gurkhas...

"In times past, it was said that once a kukri was drawn in battle, it had to "taste blood" - if not, its owner had to cut himself before returning it to its sheath."

I don't know what comic book you got that from.

 

[squealpiggy]

I don't know what comic book you got that from.

That's common knowledge about Gurkhas and their kukri knives. Although like most common knowledge it isn't true.

 

[RenaissanceBiker]

That was really just a comment about my cited source.

We need to instill police officers with an honor code similar to samurai warriors who (according to reliable comic books I've read) may not return their swords to their sheaths unbloodied

 

[The Norseman]

The only way to stop a bad cop with a gun is with a good kid with a gun. snowball

 

[TragicMonkey]

Yeah man! Shoot first, ask questions later


PS: Its not Samurai who must draw blood if they draw their sword, its Gurkhas...

"In times past, it was said that once a kukri was drawn in battle, it had to "taste blood" - if not, its owner had to cut himself before returning it to its sheath."

Julia Child practiced the same policy with her kitchen knives. Either she used every knife she drew or she cut a spectator.

 

[Jrrarglblarg]

She was a mean drunk.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

I can imagine a perfectly reasonable scenario which would justify drawing on an 11-year old in this situation: the kid was advancing on the officer while refusing to drop the tree-cutting instrument he was using. Add in a little attitude on the kid's part and it's entirely possible the officer felt reasonably threatened.

 

[theprestige]

Is there any evidence the mother's claim is true?

 

[12AX7]

I can imagine a perfectly reasonable scenario which would justify drawing on an 11-year old in this situation: the kid was advancing on the officer while refusing to drop the tree-cutting instrument he was using. Add in a little attitude on the kid's part and it's entirely possible the officer felt reasonably threatened.

I think I rolled my eyes so hard on that one that I saw the bottom of my brain.

 

[qayak]

I think I rolled my eyes so hard on that one that I saw the bottom of my brain.

^^^This ^^^

 

[truthseekershelley]

Julia Child practiced the same policy with her kitchen knives. Either she used every knife she drew or she cut a spectator.

Sober story, certainly = but this made my evening

 

[Megalodon]

I can imagine a perfectly reasonable scenario which would justify drawing on an 11-year old in this situation: the kid was advancing on the officer while refusing to drop the tree-cutting instrument he was using. Add in a little attitude on the kid's part and it's entirely possible the officer felt reasonably threatened.

An 11 year old can wield a chainsaw and that wouldn't be a good reason for an officer to feel compelled to draw his gun. The unprofessionalism of the cops that keep making the news is appalling.

 

[newyorkguy]

You have to admit, it was effective!

"I was thinking that I don't want to be shot today, so I just listened to what they said," Omari said.

 

[Multivac]

An 11 year old can wield a chainsaw and that wouldn't be a good reason for an officer to feel compelled to draw his gun. The unprofessionalism of the cops that keep making the news is appalling.

Exactly. There is no excuse for a cop to point a gun at an 11 year old kid.