gedaliyah@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agoPolice in New York shoot and kill 13-year-old holding a pellet gun, authorities saywww.pbs.orgexternal-linkmessage-square60fedilinkarrow-up1350arrow-down14file-textcross-posted to: thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world
arrow-up1346arrow-down1external-linkPolice in New York shoot and kill 13-year-old holding a pellet gun, authorities saywww.pbs.orggedaliyah@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square60fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: thepoliceproblem@lemmy.world
An officer in upstate New York shot and killed a teen fleeing while pointing a replica gun, police said Saturday.
minus-squareSeaJ@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up42arrow-down6·edit-25 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-up19arrow-down3·5 months agoYou can run and point a gun backwards/shoot in their general direction.
minus-squareTexas_Hangover@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down3·5 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.
Patsy Parisi over here.