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Posted: 11/22/2014 10:10:30 PM EDT




According to Cleveland police, witnesses first reported around 3:30 p.m. that a male was in the playground area outside Cuddell Recreation Center, waving a gun and pointing it at people.




When two officers arrived, they found the boy and ordered him to raise his hands. He did not comply with the officers’ orders and reached into his waistband, according to police. Shots were fired, and he was hit in the torso.




Police say the weapon the boy had was "an airsoft type replica gun resembling a semi-automatic pistol.” They said the orange safety indicator had been removed.










 
 
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:11:11 PM EDT
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Play stupid games win stupid prizes?
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:13:44 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:15:09 PM EDT
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Another dindu
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:15:40 PM EDT
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We used to walk around our neighborhood with real guns at that age, no one said a thing. We also didn't wear helmets when we rode our bikes, didn't argue with cops, and sometimes even rode dirt bikes in the street.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:17:13 PM EDT
[#5]
if only the orange tip was non-removable  
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:17:29 PM EDT
[#6]
Sounds like a justified shoot from the article.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:17:29 PM EDT
[#7]
oops! I need to learn to read more carefully.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:17:47 PM EDT
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Supposedly the airsoft gun in question...

Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:19:22 PM EDT
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Yep. This kid, at 12, was already defiant enough to take on adult policemen. If he would have respected and obeyed the officers commands he would be alive. I have a feeling if he would have made it to his 20th birthday he would have negatively affected some people's lives.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:20:52 PM EDT
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This.

And our HS had a Rod and Gun Club where kids brought their guns to school and kept them in their lockers until class. Did anyone EVER feel threatened or were school shootings a result from it? Nope........
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:22:53 PM EDT
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My nephew is 12... He's as tall as I am. In a stressful situation it would be easy to mistake a 12 year old for an adult. And 12 year olds can shoot you dead too, so even if he looked like a kid he's still a threat.


I really hope that the kid is OK. It's a case of a stupid kid doing stupid kid stuff and getting shot for it.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:26:22 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:26:47 PM EDT
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Twelve is absolutely old enough to recognize authority, the fact that he was enjoyed the airsoft gun meant he understood what a gun represents, ie.shooting people.  The officers weren't playing and didn't have toy guns, twelve, 7th grade?  That's old enough to understand.  I just can't relate to that.  I wonder if the parents realized their kid was too immature/disobedient to be running around with something that could get him shot...
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:28:00 PM EDT
[#14]
Good shoot.



In before the riots.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:28:50 PM EDT
[#15]
Good shoot.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:32:22 PM EDT
[#16]
Good, fuck him.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:32:25 PM EDT
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Would you like to re-think that statement?
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:33:27 PM EDT
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I don't know why I laughed at the part about one of the officers being treated for an ankle injury. Sounds like the kid will live; hopefully, he learned an important lesson.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:35:28 PM EDT
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Sucks.. but he's old enough to know better.

Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:39:10 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:42:25 PM EDT
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Good shoot.
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Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:43:03 PM EDT
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This
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Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:45:23 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:45:27 PM EDT
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Yep. This kid, at 12, was already defiant enough to take on adult policemen. If he would have respected and obeyed the officers commands he would be alive. I have a feeling if he would have made it to his 20th birthday he would have negatively affected some people's lives.
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We used to walk around our neighborhood with real guns at that age, no one said a thing. We also didn't wear helmets when we rode our bikes, didn't argue with cops, and sometimes even rode dirt bikes in the street.




Yep. This kid, at 12, was already defiant enough to take on adult policemen. If he would have respected and obeyed the officers commands he would be alive. I have a feeling if he would have made it to his 20th birthday he would have negatively affected some people's lives.



This.
Still sucks for the cops involved.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:48:54 PM EDT
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I guess he is lucky the cops weren't good shots.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:57:22 PM EDT
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I'd shoot someone waving that at me, and I'm a civilian. Disobeying an order from LE is just icing on the cake.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 10:58:35 PM EDT
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Article sure tried it's hardest to emphasize the caller saying the gun was probably fake. Didn't bother to point out the guy saying "but I don't know" or the fact that it doesn't matter either way. If it looks like a gun it'll be treated like a gun. I wouldn't even care if it did have the orange tip on it.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:00:52 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:06:37 PM EDT
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Were you my neighbor?  Yeah, we did all those things too.  We always headed to the woods with our 22s walking through neighborhoods. No one said a thing. We rode our minibikes and later our dirt bikes all over the place and never wore helmets. No one said a thing.

Well, no one said a thing unless we got out of line which rarely happened because we would get an ass whooping. We didn't know what a "time out" was outside of sports.

Different time for sure……. wish we could go back.

Oh, it's tragic but good shoot.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:09:48 PM EDT
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Looks real to me
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:13:21 PM EDT
[#31]
Well







Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:14:00 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:15:05 PM EDT
[#33]
Sucks, but 12 years old is old enough to know what "put your hands in the air" means.

Stupid games, stupid prizes, and all of that.  
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:16:25 PM EDT
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My dad always taught me to not be stupid with toy guns saying the cops would shoot you.

I feel bad for the cop, no cop wants to shoot a kid.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:18:55 PM EDT
[#35]
Well Hells Bells. Kid needs to become a Community Organizer so he can be POTUS someday. Then he can speak with authority about racism and Police Brutality.

Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:21:43 PM EDT
[#36]
Stupid kid. Wow. Sad for everyone.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:23:12 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:25:08 PM EDT
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Looks real to me
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Looks real to me

Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:26:42 PM EDT
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This.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:28:02 PM EDT
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He does NOW





Hopefully
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:29:15 PM EDT
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Looks real to me
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Looks real to me




Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:29:48 PM EDT
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You know you'll only get one shot out of that 1911
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:31:30 PM EDT
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don't forget, we used old 1 gallon milk jugs to get the gas for our dirt bikes and no one said anything!
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:35:20 PM EDT
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1911's don't have decockers. Cops should have known it a was a toy.



Bad shoot!





ETA:  I've done the leg work for the Cop Watch crowd.
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:36:39 PM EDT
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Dumb dumb dumb dumb, WTH is that kid thinking?
Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:37:06 PM EDT
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good shoot but a lot of butthurt

Link Posted: 11/22/2014 11:40:30 PM EDT
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Guess he wasn't down with "Hands Up, Don't Shoot"
Link Posted: 11/23/2014 2:43:44 PM EDT
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He confused gangster thug music / movies with real life, apparently.
Link Posted: 11/23/2014 2:44:21 PM EDT
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This.
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This.


You probably didn't wave them around at people at a playground either.
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