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| Topic | The Cop who gunned down Tamir Rice just got a new job as an officer. |
| Twin3Turbo 10/08/18 5:41:03 PM #87: | Shinobi120 posted... A BB gun isn't a real gun, doofus. Look, I'm on the side that agrees that ultimately the cops screwed up here, but I hate this argument. A BB gun isn't "real" but they can indeed seriously injure someone and it's also impossible to know if they are real in many cases until you actually inspect the thing. Grischnak posted... It don't think they were considering it a potential active shooter situation. Not everyone with a gun is considered a possible active shooter. That's a pretty specific thing. Maybe they could have used different tactics. I don't know. I'm not an expert on police tactics. I think it varies from department to department actually. Though it's questionable if that would have even changed anything. If his reflex was to pull the gun out(likely to show them it's a airsoft gun), it's very possible he would have done the same thing if they approached him in a different manner. ? The whole reason the cops were called is because the situation seemed to be a potential active shooter situation. IIRC, they were told the situation was a "Code 1", which is the highest level of urgency for that particular department. Just for clarification sake, when I say potential active shooter situation, I mean that it could turn into one at a moments notice, not that any shooting had already taken place. I'm not an expert on police tactics either but any one can point out that their approach easily escalated the situation. Whether or not he would have done the same thing if they had approached him in a different manner, I dunno, but I do know that aggressively rolling up and shooting him within 3 seconds was stupid. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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