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I have three stories all involving
guns and ammunition each is weirder than the previous the first one is a
13-year-old boy
who has been shot dead by police for holding a toy rifle
that police could not tell apparently was not real
two sheriff's deputies according to RT in Northern California shot and killed a
13-year-old boy
who they thought was carrying an assault rifle only to find out that the teenager
was holding a toy
according to police and family members the officers on patrol
in cinema County said they saw a boy appearing
to have a black ak-47
the photo made public after the tragedy shows a toy weapon
with the black magazine cartridge anna Brown but it does not have
the often present you bright or injure kind of like neon orange
I am barrel tips that the
toy weapons sometimes have sheriff's lieutenant Denis O'Leary told reporters
that deputies called for backup ordered the boy to drop the weapon a bunch of
times
the boy didn't and eventually they open fire with their handguns rodrico Lopez
told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat
that his son was taking the toy to a friends house he also had a pretend
pistol
in his waistband the family said the toy was a gun but the police press statement
says it was a
replica airsoft gun designed to look real while firing small plastic
Beebe's I got one email saying listen from the photo
I can understand why police that it was a real AK there wasn't an orange tip on
the gun to show that it was fake
this is sad the police did shoot first and ask questions later
but it's stupid her 13-year-old to be carrying a gun that looks so real
and it is wrong for his parents to have allowed him to do that
you know Louis I did this all the time when I was like seven to ten years old
in the neighborhood right lived everybody went outside with fake guns
none of them had the orange tips
and to think that today police might drive by and think there's actually a
shootout going on and start shooting the kids
is incredibly scary and at the same time
is it fair to wonder why the parents allowed him to go out on
out on the street with guns that appeared to be real and according to
police
were actually airsoft BB guns yeah I
it does look like a really cared from a distance it would be indistinguishable
arm I think this is a failure on the parents
behalf to tell the kid that missing this looks like a real gun
if you bring this out in public people are going to notice maybe they did maybe
the kid didn't care maybe he didn't listen
the whole thing's pretty strange in why didn't he just dropped the game when he
saw cops pointing real guns at him
I'm are I really don't know there's a lot of questions I have about
and at the same time one of those questions we ask does have to be
but does the police policy %uh shooting first
when there's a kid you know the its a while it looked like it could have been
a real gun
you could also barry very soberly make the argument
that police should have been able to realize that the kid
was not attempting to shoot someone he was not holding the gun in an aggressive
way
and maybe there was another way to handle this we don't have
video exactly what happened and I'll sadly we may never know because
that that is often the way this this happens the police
are on routine administrative leave while the this is investigated