Airsoft guns look very very real under stress, did he remove the orange tip indicating it not a real gun?
Remember, you have the rest of your life to win a gun fight.
LEONARDTOWN, Md. (AP) — A Maryland State Police trooper responding to a pair of 911 calls shot and killed a teenager who was pointing what investigators determined was an airsoft gun at him, authorities said Tuesday.
The shooting occurred after state police received two 911 calls about someone acting suspicious, Superintendent Woodrow Jones II told a news conference. The first caller said he thought the person had a gun, left a telephone number but didn’t give an address before hanging up, Jones said.
A second caller gave a street address for the suspicious person that was a short distance from the Leonardtown barracks, but the caller hung up before identifying themselves, Jones said.
Jones said the trooper, who responded alone, encountered Peyton Ham, 16, who he said had a gun and a knife. According to the superintendent, a witness said they saw Ham in the driveway of the home “in a shooting stance” and pointing a weapon at the trooper.
An investigation revealed that the weapon Ham wielded was an airsoft gun, which is commonly used to shoot BBs and which Jones called “a close representation of an actual handgun.”
He was white. Discuss.
https://wtop.com/maryland/2021/04/sh...lice-barracks/
Airsoft guns look very very real under stress, did he remove the orange tip indicating it not a real gun?
Remember, you have the rest of your life to win a gun fight.
Turgid Member (04-14-2021)
If you were a cop at say 30 to 40 feet from the suspect and they pointed this at you, what would you're immediate reaction be?
The kid was utterly and completely stupid. The cop shot him because he had reasonable belief he was being threatened with a deadly weapon.
ExpressLane (04-14-2021)
anonymoose (04-15-2021)
" teenager who was pointing what investigators determined was an airsoft gun at him"
HOW IS THAT THE OFFICER'S FAULT?
TRUMP WILL TAKE FORTY STATES...UNLESS THE SAME IDIOTS WHO BROUGHT US THE 2020 DUNCE-O-CRAT IOWA CLUSTERFUCK CONTINUE THEIR SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES...THEN HE WILL WIN EVEN MORE ..UNLESS THE RED CHINESE AND DNC COLLUDE, USE A PANDEMIC, AND THEN THE DEMOCRATS VIOLATE ARTICLE II OF THE CONSTITUTION, TO FACILLITATE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL, UNVETTED, MAIL IN BALLOTS IN THE DARK OF NIGHT..
De Oppresso Liber
anonymoose (04-15-2021), Underdog (04-14-2021)
ExpressLane (04-14-2021)
I'm sorry but an Airsoft gun with our without the orange tip looks too real to be brandishing when confronted by a law enforcement official. Sorry for the kid's family but I can't fault the officer.
ExpressLane (04-14-2021)
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