The parents of an eighth grader who was fatally shot by police inside his South Texas school are demanding to know why officers took lethal action, but police said the boy was brandishing — and refused to drop — what appeared to be a handgun and that the officers acted correctly.
The weapon turned out to be a pellet gun that closely resembled the real thing, police said late Wednesday, several hours after 15-year-old Jaime Gonzalez was repeatedly shot in a hallway at Cummings Middle School in Brownsville. No one else was injured.
"Why was so much excess force used on a minor?" the boy's father, Jaime Gonzalez Sr., asked The Associated Press outside the family's home Wednesday night. "Three shots. Why not one that would bring him down?"

http://news.yahoo.com/texas-police-kill-8th-grader-carrying-pellet-gun-003818851.html


Great idea here....if the police tell you to put the gun down then put it down or get shot. Sad story and im sure the cops that killed this kid feel like shit but it was justified.

 

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Yeah, preemptive violence is always justified when it's a police action.

 

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You have no idea if it was justified. I imagine if three punks killed an off duty cop and said the same things you'd be like "it's probably murder."

 

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Real good comparison

 

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Perhaps they didn't need to kill him, but I wouldn't feel the need to press the issue. It is impossible to feel bad or sorry for somebody that stupid. The fact that it was a pellet gun is utterly irrelevant and the only reason the article presents it the way it does is shock value.

You wave a gun at the police and refuse to drop it you aren't asking for it, you are demanding it.

 

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hahaha well at least you had the honesty to admit you are a thoughtless moron.

Nobody knows what the police demanded, whether he waved the gun at them, or if he refused to drop it.

 

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I would not be able to distinguish this from a real gun.

 

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Let me ask you this. If they had run in and shot him without identifying themselves, or asking him to lower his weapon, or confronting him verbally at all, what do you think they would have put in their reports, and told the press?

 

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So now you have to create both an elaborate scenario and a conspiracy in order to discredit the police.

 

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Presumably the school has security cameras which can either corroborate or contradict the officers' account of things.

 

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