"Poll: Should officer Darren Wilson, who shot Michael Brown, be arrested?"

[Camel]

"shoot first ask questions later" isn't the best policy. had they pointed their guns at the guy and said "freeze" someone might not be dead.

but it was definitely a heat-of-the-moment situation. cops are still human

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[Strovbe]

i cant say ive ever had the honor of protecting our country from 12 year olds with bb guns by shooting them, no

what you are all forgetting is that this was a 12 year old kid, which they should have known had a bb gun because the person who made the 911 call explicitly told them that it was not a real gun

there is absolutely no justification for shooting that child

he said it was "probably" not a real gun.

while i agree that the murder of mike brown WAS racially motivated, i think even if that 12 year old was a white kid the cops would've probably done the same thing.

it's a loving gun, it's irrelevant who's pointing it at you. you'd react the same if you were armed and the kid pointed what looked like a real gun at you.

[Alternat¡ve]

what you are all forgetting is that this was a 12 year old kid, which they should have known had a bb gun because the person who made the 911 call explicitly told them that it was not a real gun

ok now you are bending the words of an article that you yourself posted.

nowhere does it say that the person who made the call stated that its not a real gun. he kept saying "its probably fake" but as i said before

the difference probably fake and not fake could have gotten that officer and innocents around him killed.

[Alyx Vance]

i cant say ive ever had the honor of protecting our country from 12 year olds with bb guns by shooting them, no

what you are all forgetting is that this was a 12 year old kid, which they should have known had a bb gun because the person who made the 911 call explicitly told them that it was not a real gun

there is absolutely no justification for shooting that child

I'm not justifying the shooting of a child, I'm just saying that you can't risk it when theres a gun pointed at you. Yes, its awful it happened.
And hate to tell yah, guns are pretty damn easy to obtain. I can do a U in my house right now and get a rifle.

[SeventhSandwich]

i cant say ive ever had the honor of protecting our country from 12 year olds with bb guns by shooting them, no

what you are all forgetting is that this was a 12 year old kid, which they should have known had a bb gun because the person who made the 911 call explicitly told them that it was not a real gun

The person said that it 'probably wasn't a real gun'.

The officer came expecting to see a gun with the orange tip that toymakers are legally bound to put on fake firearm replicas. It wasn't there, and the officer had to gamble with either not shooting the kid or possibly getting killed himself.

The child is guilty of nothing. Children are stupid, and he made the wrong move at the wrong time because he's a child. The real crime here is the parents who allowed their kid to play with a realistic firearm replica outside of the home.

[Kimon²]

alright so there's a 12 year old, right. and some guy calls 911 and says he has what is probably a fake gun. the cops show up, and the kid points what they have been informed is probably a fake gun at them. logically, the next step is to shoot the kid. just like immediately shoot the kid.

alright i mean whatever floats your boat but that most certainly does not float mine.

[Alyx Vance]

alright so there's a 12 year old, right. and some guy calls 911 and says he has what is probably a fake gun. the cops show up, and the kid points what they have been informed is probably a fake gun at them. logically, the next step is to shoot the kid.

alright i mean whatever floats your boat but that most certainly does not float mine.

He seen the orange tip wasn't present so he had to assume it was a real gun. I'm guessing you've never been in a situation where you had to decipher if a gun is real or not despite what you've been told.

[Alternat¡ve]

alright so there's a 12 year old, right. and some guy calls 911 and says he has what is probably a fake gun. the cops show up, and the kid points what they have been informed is probably a fake gun at them. logically, the next step is to shoot the kid.

alright i mean whatever floats your boat but that most certainly does not float mine.

i love how you keep dodging the fact that you want cops to prioritize the safety of an armed and most likely dangerous individual instead of themselves and the innocent people around them lol

but "whatever floats your boat"

[Strovbe]

alright so there's a 12 year old, right. and some guy calls 911 and says he has what is probably a fake gun. the cops show up, and the kid points what they have been informed is probably a fake gun at them. logically, the next step is to shoot the kid.

alright i mean whatever floats your boat but that most certainly does not float mine.

the point is if you point a gun at anyone who's armed you're probably going to get shot. regardless of age, love, race, etc.

[Bloody Mary]

Let me get this straight. So, he can reform a bill on immigration (that will involve 4 million illegal immigrants) on his own volition but he can't do stuff about this?

That's largely using his veto power as president. Unless you want him to introduce some amendment or bill, there's very little he can do.

[Kimon²]

i love how you keep dodging the fact that you want cops to prioritize the safety of an armed and most likely dangerous individual instead of themselves and the innocent people around them lol

this "most likely dangerous individual" was a 12 year old child with a "probably fake gun" so yeah i think maybe they should have at least given him a chance before loving shooting him

[Alternat¡ve]

this "most likely dangerous individual" was a 12 year old child with a "probably fake gun" so yeah i think maybe they should have at least given him a chance before loving shooting him

if you were in the situation where somebody was pointing a real gun at you and the others around you, and you had the chance to stop him, would you?

[Alyx Vance]

this "most likely dangerous individual" was a 12 year old child with a "probably fake gun" so yeah i think maybe they should have at least given him a chance before loving shooting him

12 or 21, possibly fake or possibly real, dangerous is dangerous. It doesn't take much to flex a finger muscle. What if it had been real? Boom, dead. And don't pull any "but it wasn't" because what if it had been.

[SeventhSandwich]

alright so there's a 12 year old, right. and some guy calls 911 and says he has what is probably a fake gun. the cops show up, and the kid points what they have been informed is probably a fake gun at them. logically, the next step is to shoot the kid. just like immediately shoot the kid.

The gun would have looked real from far away. Like I said, fake guns are legally required to have the orange tip on them. This is done so that police officers /do not/ mistake children's toys for real firearms. This one didn't have one, and any sane parent would never let a kid go outside with something that a police officer could take to be a real gun.

[Jairo]

alright so there's a 12 year old, right. and some guy calls 911 and says he has what is probably a fake gun. the cops show up, and the kid points what they have been informed is probably a fake gun at them. logically, the next step is to shoot the kid. just like immediately shoot the kid.

alright i mean whatever floats your boat but that most certainly does not float mine.

1. kid has "probably fake gun"
2. well let's see, fake guns have orange tips
3. arrive at scene of disturbance
4. kid has gun without orange tip, therefore it is most likely a real gun
5. shoot

I don't understand why you're strawmanning this so hard