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Downtown Hound

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13. Playing in a fenced in back yard, with a gun that even the cop thinks is a BB gun,

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Sun May 12, 2019, 01:57 PM

May 2019

and is given less than a second to comply with the orders before he gets shot. This is criminal. They would have to either shoot me or restrain me from killing that cop if he did that to my kid. Of course, I'm white. In addition to it being very unlikely that I'll have have to face that reality, I have no doubt there's many people out there that would be more sympathetic to my plight instead of the non-stop chorus of, "He should have just done what he was told!" crowd that invariable pops up whenever these videos surface.

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Police Officer Shoots 14-Year-Old After Just a 0.6-Second Warning NowThis [View all] Quixote1818 May 2019 OP

Oklahoma County District Attorney and those cops are assholes. greyl May 2019 #1

The fucking piece of shit cop SAYS they have a cap gun as he is walking up to the yard Quixote1818 May 2019 #2

Cop had oppurtunity to communicate with victim from safe cover, greyl May 2019 #4

Cop shoots him then says "you're ok" as he's laying on the ground. oasis May 2019 #3

Sickening. Police are out of control in this KPN May 2019 #5

yes, but handmade34 May 2019 #6

That certainly doesn't help. Good point. KPN May 2019 #7

Typical racist thug RandiFan1290 May 2019 #8

This is all naturally to be expected in a gun infested U.S. Culture tomhagen May 2019 #9

Training courtjester May 2019 #10

ANY jury would side with the kid! Smackdown2019 May 2019 #11

I'm retired age but when I wa a kid, kids played with cap guns and bb guns all the time. demigoddess May 2019 #12

Maybe they did in black neighborhoods. Only now do we see what Quixote1818 May 2019 #14

Times have changed. Honeycombe8 May 2019 #15

I just thought the cops were smarter in those days. And there was more oversight. demigoddess May 2019 #16

Playing in a fenced in back yard, with a gun that even the cop thinks is a BB gun, Downtown Hound May 2019 #13