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Re: The next Ferguson ?
A prudent person would have driven up at a safer distance and assessed the situation instead of pulling up within five feet of a person with a gun.
Two seconds of assessment would have lead one to the realization that this was just a child, and given the opportunity to defuse the situation.
It's a ****ing open carry state. Do cops really just get to shoot everyone with a gun on them?
Okay G, I'll opine a little further...
The boy appeared to be armed and any prudent person would take defensive measures under those circumstances. It is a natural fight or flight response and a person is not able to outrun a bullet... so fight it is. It takes less than a second to present, aim, and fire a sidearm; so, 2.5 seconds is a long time to wait during life or death decision making. At this point with known information I cannot automatically condemn the LEOs.
As far as the child's teachings... his location and actions demonstrate his lacking awareness of propriety and deference. To whom might those failings be attributed?
Human's do not learn via osmosis. We must be taught and those teachings must be constantly and consistently stressed during childhood and sometimes beyond.
The only other thing to add... I encourage those who have never been on the wrong end of any weapon to do a little soul searching in consideration of their own responses when death appears imminent. Many would like to think they'd perform differently but could survival instinct allow that difference ? Most do not and hopefully will never face a situation to know the answer to that question.
This is a tragedy for which all involved, parents and LE partcularly, will wish for a different outcome.
G'day G
Thom Paine
A prudent person would have driven up at a safer distance and assessed the situation instead of pulling up within five feet of a person with a gun.
Two seconds of assessment would have lead one to the realization that this was just a child, and given the opportunity to defuse the situation.
It's a ****ing open carry state. Do cops really just get to shoot everyone with a gun on them?