I am surprised and also not surprised at the amount of non-critical thinking people here. They lay out the trail and you all lap it right up.
Cops were there --> boy pointed gun at cops --> cops shoot --> Totally justified and end of.
Embarrassing.
There couldn't
possibly be anything else at play here.
To name a few, (1) we don't know how truthful and accurate the cops's story is. (2) This
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Originally posted by DvnR
Because they're undercover cops late at night and see a large group of people just standing around. They weren't bothering him until he just randomly wandered off after messing with his waistband.
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is not a reason to interrupt and approach someone. (3) Cops are there to prevent and stop trouble not to cause it. (4) Two men approaching you after they were just watching you in a car at midnight could very well and most of the time surely would be taken as a threat. (5) When you are undercover you socially surrender your status as a cop because you are completely unidentified as such, thus the
"they were cops" excuse becomes a problem in this case. Had this been some 27 yr old man shot down because he felt threatened due to being previously watched, then approached by two RANDOM men (socially NOT cops) at midnight so he pulled his gun defensively, the
"they were cops" excuse would not cut it at all. Unless they announced immediately that they were cops, this is a problem. (6) The boy was 16 and shouldn't have had a gun. That however doesn't negate the previously mentioned points.