Cop Shoots 8th Grader After He "Charges" At Cop

[Victarion]

What are you people, misanthropes?

It's pretty simple, if the guy can't aprehend a 14 year old child, weapon or not, without smoking the little bastard, then he's unworthy of being a cop.

We put a lot of power in their hands, literally, they should be responsible. Shooting a kid just because he runs at you isn't being responsible as far as i'm concerned.

Unless the kid was packing a shooter or a grenade, there is no reason what so ever to shoot him.

Lol, I dunno, let me show you my gorn folder.

If the little bastard can't comprehend that he shouldn't acquiesce to the officer's request, he is unworthy of sucking down my air.

 

[Duke]

I'm not going to say I agree or justify the police department's actions in every incident, but sometimes on rare occasions they overstep their boundaries. The same goes with criminal suspects, they don't want to get pounded on, then obey & don't run from the cops.

 

[SuperFerret]

I still say people hate cops for their oppressive function which is just as acceptable as a person loving firefighters for their always helpful function.

And which function of theirs is oppressive? Stopping criminals? Punishing wrongdoers? Risking their lives for people they will never know?

 

[SouLeSS]

I hope everyone who approves, or agrees with this Officer's behavior gets shot in the face. **** off.....

you're acting as if it was your brother who got shot in this whole ordeal.

I'm not saying the kid deserved to die, or that the cop was in the right. What I am saying, is that the kid was clearly an idiot for 1) running from a cop after being told freeze at gunpoint and 2) hiding in a dark garage and then rushing at the police officer.

For all the cop knew, he coulda grabbed some huge knife or machete or rocket launcher in the shed.

 

[SentinelMind]

I think the officer should be punished.

I think most officers are good and doing their job, but I'll admit I keep my eye on them and try to avoid confrontations with police at all cost (not parking next to a police car, not hanging near a cop, taking a different route than a police car if convenient). There's nothing wrong with being cautious and protecting around government authority.

 

[Ultra Lantern]

Robocop wouldn't have executed an 8th grader.

 

[Mike_D202]

RoboCop would have used his computer vision to determine if the kid was armed or not.

On a side note: A girl came up to us and told us her boyfriend beat her up and she locked herself in the bathroom until he left. When I asked why she didn't call the cops, she said "I'm not a cop caller."

That response flabbergasted me. She's 21 years old, it makes me worried what the younger generation is being taught about dialing 911. Although she IS going to jail for awhile in a few days for drugs. But still, it just doesn't make any sense why some people are against this.

And last week while I was downtown with my friend, some woman came up to my friend and said "So I heard your a cop caller." (awhile back a guy was in his girlfriend's face and busted her windows, my friend called 911 and kept the guy at bay until the police arrived). She called it a "puss move." (apparenlty she is the guy's friend) and asked why he just didn't fight him instead of calling the cops. I just don't get it.

 

[Bubonic]

It's pretty unsettling how some blindly justify the cops actions simply because he is a cop, as if they were somehow infallible.

I thought that this community, of all places, would understand the concept of "with great power comes great responsibility" but these boards are eerily filled with vindictive, bloodthirsty children.

 

[mrvlknight21]

If the cop wanted to take the kid down, he should of aimed for the leg. The cops past record seems to back up his stupidity, then again, I don't know how dark it was, or what ran threw the cops mind at the time. It sounds like he reacted poorly, I doubt it was intentional to kill an unarmed 14 year old boy.

Absolutely NOT.
Without getting into the whether this cop was justified to shoot, I want to make sure everyone understands that police officers ARE NOT, I repeat ARE NOT trained to shoot at a person's legs to stop them, not trained to shoot warning shots, or anything similar.
Police are trained to shoot at center mass to stop the threat. Almost all police departments that I have been around, talked to, etc have it in their policy to not do otherwise.

 

[SuperFerret]

Depending on where you get hit in the leg, it's also far from a non-fatal spot to shoot someone.

 

[BAH HUMBBUG!]

Hey....here's proof.

Not ALL cops are penises

 

[CelticPredator]

Is that Michael Scott?

 

[Schlosser85]

The title of this thread is seriously misleading. It makes it sound like some kid jumped out and yelled "BOO!" and the cop handcuffed him, marched him into a field, and shot him in the back of the head.

 

[CelticPredator]

He shot him....

 

[Heffer Wolf]

Hey....here's proof.

Not ALL cops are penises

After this picture was taken, the cop beat, shot at, then arrested everyone, laughing to himself as he searched everyone and stole all their money. Then he planted Guns on everyone, ate a 12er of donuts, and took everyone to jail. forever.

 

[Schlosser85]

He shot him....

As the suspect charged him.....that's not an "execution".

 

[mrvlknight21]

The title of this thread is seriously misleading. It makes it sound like some kid jumped out and yelled "BOO!" and the cop handcuffed him, marched him into a field, and shot him in the back of the head.

As the suspect charged him.....that's not an "execution".

I brought that up to Aesop Rocks on the 1st page and reported that to the mods. Its inflammatory.
Still no mod response/intervention.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

Dun dun dun duhduhduh! Here I am!

 

[Jennifer Walters]

How is it inflammatory? It's not like the cop posts on the Hype and Rocks is slandering his good name by telling the tale of how he shot an 8th grader for no real reason when he could've handled the situation without a death.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

How is it inflammatory? It's not like the cop posts on the Hype and Rocks is slandering his good name by telling the tale of how he shot an 8th grader for no real reason when he could've handled the situation without a death.

The title was absolutely misleading.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

How is it inflammatory? It's not like the cop posts on the Hype and Rocks is slandering his good name by telling the tale of how he shot an 8th grader for no real reason when he could've handled the situation without a death.

Executing implies it was like a firing squad or the cop forced him on his knees and shot him in the head.


The new title doesn't need 'charges' in quotation marks, it's what the kid did.

 

[mrvlknight21]

How is it inflammatory? It's not like the cop posts on the Hype and Rocks is slandering his good name by telling the tale of how he shot an 8th grader for no real reason when he could've handled the situation without a death.

There are law enforcement who post here, though.
Also, the way the story was written was the more inflammatory part.

The title was absolutely misleading.

Definitely.

Executing implies it was like a firing squad or the cop forced him on his knees and shot him in the head.
.

^This.

 

[The Original Bamfer]

I simply tried to make a neutral title. I quoted the word "charged" because that's the word the cop used.

 

[TheIncredibleSk]

You know the cop could be lying right.... "An autopsy revealed “no evidence of close range firing [on] the wound,” and no gunpowder stains were found on the victim’s bloody t-shirt."

 

[Jennifer Walters]

Yes. Cops may post on the Hype, but not THIS cop. I'm sure our cop posters have more than enough common sense not to shoot an 8th grade kid for a simple school yard brawl.

Execute by definition means to terminate. Murder in any way, be it justified by law or by wrong doings is to terminate someone's life. The title was in no way misleading, but whatever.