juicy@lemmy.today to News@lemmy.world · edit-26 months agoCalifornia officer shoots and kills boy, 15, holding gardening toolwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square381fedilinkarrow-up1807arrow-down129
arrow-up1778arrow-down1external-linkCalifornia officer shoots and kills boy, 15, holding gardening toolwww.theguardian.comjuicy@lemmy.today to News@lemmy.world · edit-26 months agomessage-square381fedilink
minus-squareDrDominate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·8 months agoAs if a grown ass officer couldn’t take down a teen wielding some gardening equipment without a lethal weapon.
minus-squaresugarfree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down6·8 months agoIn some cases they can, but here the officer was charged and the attacker was able to get very close, another second and the officer could have been hit and then who knows what would happen. The footage shows a very clear threat.
minus-squareeskimofry@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months agoYeah you’re out of your depth kid. That’s why you and that cop should never be cops.
As if a grown ass officer couldn’t take down a teen wielding some gardening equipment without a lethal weapon.
In some cases they can, but here the officer was charged and the attacker was able to get very close, another second and the officer could have been hit and then who knows what would happen. The footage shows a very clear threat.
Yeah you’re out of your depth kid. That’s why you and that cop should never be cops.