Why is the danger of fake weapons ignored?

[Kadagar_AV]

I don't know what to think of this... Apart from the Fergusson (sp?) case, a 12 year old were just shot.

Again, he had a soft airgun with the safety label removed.

None of the people shot thought it MIGHT, just MIGHT, be a bad idea to swing weapons around among people, or not at once surrender when police shows up.

Heck, the policemen want to get home to their families... You don't joke around with weapons around them, unless you want to be shot and killed.

Are these people effin morons, or what is happening?

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Twelve year olds KNOW it is a toy and that they are just playing, so they don't worry about such things. Parents generally aren't aware that their kid is out playing with something that might look too real to a tense police officer. Sad.

[Kadagar_AV]

Twelve year olds KNOW it is a toy and that they are just playing, so they don't worry about such things. Parents generally aren't aware that their kid is out playing with something that might look too real to a tense police officer. Sad.

It's definitely a tragedy...

REGARDLESS though, when I was 12 I was into RPGs, and one day were on my way to a live with a crossbow...

Police came, and I at once turned around and put my hands around my head. I understood it was a tense situation, and acted accordingly. Don't blame this on the kid being "only" 12, good parenting includes respect for the police.

Specially when the kid had a gun with the safety label removed... I mean geez...

I have a theater knife at home, where the blade goes into the handle when you stab... Do you think I would approach a policeman with it, as I "knew I didn't have a weapon?".

This seems like a systematical error, but these 2 examples in a short timespan rather shows that the problem is with the black society, not the police.

[Kadagar_AV]

BTW, could we change the title to "12 year old" instead of black person?

I connected it with a similar case, but it wasn't in the USA. My bad.

[Kadagar_AV]

This is my point...

[Kadagar_AV]

I messed up the thread start... Would be lovely if some mod could remove the thread altogether...

I have an important topic in mind, but this was a ill formulated...