Police in New York shoot and kill 13-year-old holding a pellet gun, authorities say
Police in New York shoot and kill 13-year-old holding a pellet gun, authorities say
An officer in upstate New York shot and killed a teen fleeing while pointing a replica gun, police said Saturday.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17056255
An officer in upstate New York shot and killed a teen fleeing while pointing a replica gun, police said Saturday.
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I said this when Tamir Rice was killed. I said it in the 90s when the California kid was killed. And I'll say it here too.
There's no one single person at fault, but the person at fault the most is the parents for not teaching their kid how not to be a dumbass.
"Hey, what'cha doin' Jimmy?"
"Just taking my toy gun out to play"
"Whoa there! That's a bad idea. If this gets mistaken for a real gun, somebody will call the cops on you, and they'll KILL you for real! Nope! You're not going out with this gun. Even if it is plastic, a bb gun, a pellet gun, or anything else that could easily be mistaken as the real thing."
And I've heard it before: "But cops are the ones KILLING the kid!"
Yes, and I do agree that a LOT of what the cops do is corrupt, this is the ONE CASE where you expect them to shoot to kill. When they are under the impression that you have an active shooter, you WANT them to shoot to kill.
"But it's NOT an active shooter! It's a toy gun!"
And how do the cops know that? They get a call that theres a kid with a gun. Have you SEEN how many kids get real guns and shoot up schools the last 20 years??? They have to treat these situations as real.
"But he's just a kid!"
And a kid with a gun is just as deadly as an adult with a gun.
The way to not have cops shoot you on the spot is to not appear like a deadly threat to society. Now we can sit around all day debating on how we got to this point, but the reality is we live in a world where kids shoot people with guns. If you have what looks to be a gun, you're gonna get shot. And the kid may not even know what he did wrong.....and thats the parents fault.
Because if cops wait around, and figure things out first, you have Uvalde all over again. People were pissed, as they should be, that police showed up, and DIDN'T shoot a kid.
I have no love for police in their current state. I'm even subscribed to a community on Lemmy called "the police problem".
However, this is like the ONE THING they're good for, is stopping active shooters. Don't want to get shot by police? Don't make yourself appear as an active shooter.
representing the "what was she wearing?" gang
Victim blaming. Classy.
Wow, Americans are truly crazy
Strange. Doesn't the second amendment guarantee our right to keep and bear arms? But apparently the cops are allowed to murder us for it.
I wonder when it will be okay for them to kill us for exercising free speech.
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You can keep and bare arms.....but you can't point them at people. Cops or otherwise. First rule of owning a gun is you do not point the gun at anything unless you intend for it to die.
And also, with how many nut jobs are in this country, I'm thinking maybe we should revise the second amendment, or remove it completely.
You know how many public shootings Ireland had last time I looked? 13. In a year. And that included cops using their weapons. 13 total. Drunkest country on earth, but they got their shit together on guns.
Lulz only on lemmy can the most rational and sane take be downvoted and most negatively commented on. To me you make absolute sense!
How can you mention Uvalde and say that the ONE thing cops are good for is stopping active shooters?
If this gets mistaken for a real gun, somebody will call the cops on you, and they'll KILL you for real!
That's absolutely insane, that us Americans have to think this way. Getting murdered by law enforcement shouldn't ever be a near-certainty.
Active shooter
You keep using that term, but I don't think you understand it. Unless someone has started shooting people, there's literally no active shooter. No one would call that in, and police officers arriving on scene would also determine there's no active shooter, if they're actually doing their job. People might call the cops on a child with a toy gun (don't do that), but the police officer is responsible for discerning the true situation before using lethal force.
And a kid with a gun is just as deadly as an adult with a gun.
I'm no gun nut, but just having a gun doesn't make someone a threat any more than having a knife, a vehicle, a frying pan, etc. It certainly doesn't make them an imminent threat that has to be killed immediately. The US has way too many guns, but still: just the existence of a gun doesn't make someone a danger worthy of killing.
#But.
With all that said, in this actual interaction, the police stopped the boys and one of them pointed what appeared to be a handgun at the officers. I've long since stopped giving cops the benefit of the doubt, but if it happened exactly like they said, legal force was absolutely justified in this case. It was later discovered that it was a replica GLOCK 17 Gen 5 handgun with a detachable magazine.
Everything looks like a weapon to a dipshit cop.
Because what he was holding looks exactly like a weapon. And he was pointing it at cops.
And he was pointing it at cops.
Allegedly.
Ok. Let the body cam sort that out then.
It did, and he didn't
Ok. Let the body cam sort that out then.
https://apnews.com/article/utica-police-shooting-nyah-mway-myanmar-835e5c29eed93dc109108f668323d9f4
Neither suggests anyuthing in the footage showing he pointed a gun at officers.
But second link does say this:
Patterson and Husnay ran after Nyah, with Patterson taking the teen down after a short chase as officers can be heard screaming “He’s got a gun.”
Husnay had his gun drawn and appeared to shoot Nyah when he was down on the ground, according to his released bodycam footage.
Please find me where either of these articles corroborates that the bodycam shows he pointed a gun at police.
Here's key bits of the video:
Looks to me like he was trying to drop the gun, it's pointed at himself if anything. Still is as provided by the newsteam in the youtube link, and if you listen to the audio, they are clearly accepting the police story and not disagreeing - so this is the best they could do to make it look good for them.
This isn't even when they shot him!! They shot him ON THE GROUND.
edited - looks even worse for them here https://www.facebook.com/CBSEveningNews/videos/1188314849017274/
My very first statement - I'll believe it when I see a video. Police don't get the benefit of the doubt anymore.
Like I said everything looks like a weapon to a cop, a cellphone, a walking stick of a blind man. Etc. even the sound of an acorn hitting the roof of a car sounds like a weapon.
They recovered the gun that was pointed at him. It looks exactly like a gun. It's not a real gun, but you cant make that distinction in the time it takes to pull the trigger. You either shoot now, or potentially die. Those are the cops options.
And that's what you get when the police have only six months training.
Shoot first, investigate themselves later.
And he was pointing it at cops.
Citation needed, and I won't accept the cop saying "trust me"
Cops these days all wear body cams. If he fails to submit one, I'm sure that'll be damning for his case.
Shit, Americans are fucking wild...
Yeah... Username checks out?
Ehhh, you're dealing with an idiot kid (and all kids are idiots to some degree) and a supposedly trained professional.
I would place the weight of fault on the officer and/or whoever trained them.
Yeah, you should always teach your kids about firearm safety and drill into them to never, ever carry one at all until they're adults. And that includes anything that can propel a projectile that isn't obviously and visibly a toy.
But the truth is that a 13 year old was target that got shot. By an adult in body armor, with training. No shot had been fired because you can't mistake a bb gun sound for even a 22 going off. So there was no active shooter here.
It's another bad shooting that's going to get swept under the rug.
Because if cops wait around, and figure things out first, you have Uvalde all over again. People were pissed, as they should be, that police showed up, and DIDN’T shoot a kid.
I don't claim this is intentional on your part, but I believe you've created a false dichotomy. There is a spectrum of outcomes between what happened here and what happened in Uvalde.
(and again, I'll believe he was pointing it at them when I can see a video proving he did so)
It's like accepting of the fact that your police is incompetent. They either shoot everyone or let someone else shoot everyone. That's not doing their job as police.
It's a common way people try to justify their actions. As if police are a force of nature. You wouldn't stand in the path of a tornado, why would you expect police to act on more than the most superficial analysis of the situation and with less than the most violence they can justify.
Yep, no way you can believe the police report at face value.
Body cam footage or the exact opposite happened.
someone having a gun is no reason to shoot them btw.. especially not if it's a kid. that the gun wasn't real isn't even relevant.
if you can't carry a gun in public, you effectively don't have the right to bear arms, but AFAIK NY law grants citizens that right.
however, even if guns were illegal in NY, police should still not shoot people just for having one or waving it around. they should carefully capture the person. if police isn't brave enough to do that, maybe you have the wrong persons for the job.
When you point a gun at a cop, even a fake gun, I understand why the cop shoots you dead.
You don't question whether the kid actually pointed the gun at them, cop says he did so he must have. Not like a cop would lie to cover his ass, right?
Cops are all wearing body cams these days. With a case like this, he'll either submit the body cam footage, or he won't.
And if he doesn't then it'll be real suspicious as to why.
because they're pussies? are the most notorious killers of america afraid of a little kid with a gun? Shouldn't have they received training about such a situation and if they did why are their first instict is to kill?
i don't because they signed up to put their life on the line and pointing guns is legal
pointing guns is legal
What?
No, it absolutely isn’t.
so is it okay to have people run around and have the authırity to kill you if they see you with a weapon? (or if they lie about it)
Pointing a percieved weapon at others? Yes. That's sort of their job to stop threats.
Y'know tasers exist right
And tasers have an alarming failure rate. If someone was pointing a gun at you what would you do?
If a 13 year old was pointing what I thought was a gun at me? I would use the taser and try to get out of the way of where they were pointing.
I will say, I read the article and if what the cops say is true, there were a number of compounding unfortunate circumstances. It was late at night, the kids ran when they were approached, and the kid died from a single shot. The cops didn't pull up and unload their guns on the two kids.
ACAB, but I'm not saying they were malicious or grossly incompetent in this case. But I still think they're too quick to shoot first and ask questions later. I personally think they shouldn't shoot unless shot at, that would eliminate these cases that keep happening. Teaching kids to not play with toy guns would be great too, unfortunately guns are just so deeply engrained in every aspect of American culture
It is harder to hit a moving target...