juicy@lemmy.today to News@lemmy.world · 8 months agoCalifornia officer shoots and kills boy, 15, holding gardening toolwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square56fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down11
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minus-squareDrDominate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoAs if a grown ass officer couldn’t take down a teen wielding some gardening equipment without a lethal weapon.
minus-squaresugarfree@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·8 months agoIn some cases they can, but here the officer was charged and the attacker was able to get very close, another second and the officer could have been hit and then who knows what would happen. The footage shows a very clear threat.
As if a grown ass officer couldn’t take down a teen wielding some gardening equipment without a lethal weapon.
In some cases they can, but here the officer was charged and the attacker was able to get very close, another second and the officer could have been hit and then who knows what would happen. The footage shows a very clear threat.