Thursday, April 28, 2016

What are police to do ? ? Wait until they are shot at, or worse...SHOT ?

Youth with BB gun resembling firearm shot by police in East Baltimore Baltimore Sun    

Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis speaks at a press conference, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015, in Baltimore, following a hung jury and mistrial for Officer William Porter, one of six Baltimore city police officers charged in connection to the death of Freddie Gray.
Patrick Semansky/AP Photo Baltimore Police Department Commissioner Kevin Davis speaks at a press conference, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015, in Baltimore, following a hung jury and mistrial for Officer William…
A Baltimore police detective shot a boy in East Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon who he wrongly believed was carrying a semiautomatic pistol, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said.
The boy suffered what police called non-life-threatening injuries to a "lower extremity," Davis said. The weapon turned out to be spring-air-powered BB gun — not a real firearm.
The boy's mother identified him as 14-year-old Dedric Colvin, an eighth-grader at City Springs Middle School. Volanda Young said her son was shot once in the shoulder and once in the leg.
The incident came on the day city officials marked the one-year anniversary of the Freddie Gray riots.
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can just see the new Authorization to Use Deadly Force checklist coming out in the future: 1) You MUST determine that the suspect is at least 18; 2) You MUST determine that the alleged 'weapon' is indeed a REAL weapon and not simply a look alike; 3) You MUST determine that the alleged suspect has deadly intent toward you personally (general 'threat' is insufficient); 4) You MUST offer the alleged perpetrator to peacefully surrender (and on and on and on).
No thanks, I'll stay old school and stick with ability, opportunity, jeopardy and manifest intent. Period.

April 28, 2016 at 12:05 PM
Pappy said...

YOU ARE 100% RIGHT........
I have a few policemen in my family and know many more. Only one I know has ever shot anyone,he was a rookie but had good reason to shoot. no charges filed against him. I WOULD NOT WANT THAT JOB FOR ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY. You almost have a better chance of staying alive in Iraq or Syria.....

April 28, 2016 at 12:24 PM

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