re: Boy with fake gun dies after shot by officer

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That could easily pass as real, especially if you're looking down the barrel.

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Amazing how we've gone from the standard cop catchall reason for shooting someone of "he was reaching for a weapon" or "he made a move for a gun" to now the kid was pointing his BB gun at the cops in a threatening manner before he got shot.

Story is fricked up enough without exaggerating what happened:

Concerned citizen called 911 about a boy on the playground with a gun and stated "...probably fake, but it’s scaring the shite out of me.”

Why he didn't just ask the kid if it was real or not is beyond me...

Cops respond.

Tell kid to either drop the gun or raise his hands. Stories conflict here.

Kid makes a "movement" towards the gun.

Cops shoot kid at least twice wounding him in the stomach and torso.

Kid dies the next day at the hospital.