Kid shot by police, allegedly holding Wiimote

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OdinHades said:

mr_capello said:
typical american story
if not every fucking nut job would have a gun at home i'm sure officers would ease up alittle and wouldn't shoot everything that moves

qft

Tragic, very much so.

To be totally honest, we don't know anything about the exact circumstances, it's a given that it all happened in the blink of an eye. The kid's father apparently was on probation, we don't know but that man could've been a serious criminal. The officer likely didn't immediately recognize him as a kid either, because in the OP's pic he looks like an adult to me, probably moreso if the pic's old - therefore she likely presumed the guy opening the door was the father (a known offender). Then, of course, for all we know the kid could've been holding this:

Of course it's very wrong what she did, and I'm not defending her, just pointing out that we know very little about the circumstances.