Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Police Kill 13 Year Old Who Would Not Drop Replica Rifle

Police Kill 13 Year Old Who Would Not Drop Replica Rifle


 October 23, 2013 An eighth-grader who attended Cook Middle School in Santa Rosa was fatally shot in South Santa Rosa by Sonoma County Sheriff's deputies Tuesday afternoon after failing to comply with deputies' orders to drop what turned out to be a replica AK-47 assault rifle
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 http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/10/teen-carrying-replica-gun-killed-us-police-2013102484435717554.html
The incident took place in a day after a 12-year-old boy killed a teacher at a Nevada middle school with a gun he also used to take his own life.
There is growing concern about officer-involved shootings in California, where a spate of such incidents in the city of Anaheim, southeast of Los Angeles, prompted protests in 2012.

Comments:  Harry_Perry 
 6 days ago
This is really crazy. Its very hard to stay calm and logic when I hear such stories.
I totally understand that the US is an extremely dangerous place where many people carry guns and that's why the police expect the worst and are always prepared.
But I'm sometimes left baffled and have many questions:
Is it really necessary to shoot so quickly?
Are the police not tactically covered behind a door of a police car and aiming their guns at the suspect?
If the suspect is putting his gone down but in a wrong manner, don't the police have the brains to assess that the suspect might actually be surrendering? Instead of basically committing suicide?
Do most people who surrender to police in the US, at the last moment change their mind or try to trick the police by shooting back, after attempting to lay their weapon down?
I understand that their is a culture of weapons, violence and danger so that US police are constantly on the look out and agitated....but there is also a practical/tactical and psychological issue that seems to often to be failing in these scenarios in the US.
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      digikan  Harry_Perry 
       6 days ago
      The nerves these Americans have to scold the Muslim world for the violence in the middle east.
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          internetpetal  digikan 
           6 days ago
          Why? People in violent areas have every right to comment negatively about violent events. Whether those people are in downtown Los Angeles or Kabul.
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              digikan  internetpetal 
               6 days ago
              They're not commenting negatively about the violence, they're commenting negatively about the Muslims. The average Westerner today believes that all terrorists are Muslims(Fact: Most of the violent deaths in the world were a result of Western wars and imperialism, not from Muslims), that Muslims are rapists and killers and that they stone women and gays to death. Of course, all of this is nonsense.


        .Sources 

        Calif. sheriff's deputies shoot, kill 13-year-old

        Houston Chronicle - ‎33 minutes ago‎
        SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - Northern California sheriff's deputies have shot and killed a 13-year-old boy after repeatedly telling him to drop what turned out to be a replica assault rifle, sheriff's officials and family members said.
        Santa Rosa »California »Police »
        Calif. police shoot, kill 13-year-old with fake rifle
        Calif. cops shoot 13-year-old boy armed with toy gun dead - by Michael Walsh
        Sonoma County Sheriff's Departmant
        Deputies shoot, kill 13-year-old boy in Santa Rosa
        Friends question shooting of boy with fake rifle

        ABC7 News - SF Bay Area
        5 hours ago  -  Google+
        NORTH BAY TRAGEDY: Sheriff’s deputies in Santa Rosa fatally shot a 13-year-old boy who was holding a replica assault rifle yesterday. Deputies said they thought the replica was a real gun and shot at the boy when he refused to drop it. How do you think a tragedy like this can be avoided in the future? Read more --> http://abc7ne.ws/1eJcJgR
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