re: Boy with fake gun dies after shot by officer

Just listened to the 911 call, the caller said, "this GUY has a gun, this GUY is scaring the shite out of me." He never once called him a little boy,

He didn't use the word "little boy" but did call him a juvenile.

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"There is a guy with a pistol, it's probably fake, but he's pointing it at everyone," the caller says. The caller later repeats that the gun is probably fake, and adds that "he's probably a juvenile."

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The USA today article goes on to say that the officers were not told by the 911 operator that the caller thought the gun was fake, so there is that.

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Live and learn

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I feel bad for laughing.

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Convincing story? A police department went to the Supreme Court to defend their right to not hire applicants that scored too high on the Wonderlic portion of the entrance exam because, "They would find police work too dull and move on to another field."

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One police department used a high cutoff on the Wonderlic to narrow the applicant pool. The Supreme Court decided that for a department to limit the applicant pool to a reasonable number based on the low/high cutoff was acceptable despite it being "unwise." To suggest that police departments across the United States "disqualify applicants for being too smart" is an extrapolation at best. My statement of "a convincing story" was a very poor choice of words. Perhaps your statement suggesting it was the norm was, too, and I am misunderstanding you.

Good news to wake up to.

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Posted by Ed Osteen
Are you really dumb enough to not understand a 12 year old is capable of shooting someone? It's sad but this is the world we live in

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Are you that dense that you don't understand that stating "good" about a tragedy caused by a stupid decision made by a 12 year old is gross? Obviously the cop did the right thing, I never suggested otherwise. In your fricked up mind, children dieing for doing stupid things is good.

Did they murder another little black boy?

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If the cop in the Gulfport thread LINK would have played it a little safer maybe he wouldn't have ended up in the hospital.

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The cop in Gulfport was doing his job putting a dangerous criminal in jail. If he had played it safer, then this animal would still be on the streets committing crimes.