• FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Also, why charge a cop with a weapon, though? Teenager at least had the agency to not rush a cop.

    Why there? Googled it, this is from a different article:

    "The officer-involved shooting was reported before 5 p.m. Saturday, after the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call about a domestic disturbance in Apple Valley, authorities said.

    The caller reported that 15-year-old Ryan Gainer was attacking his sister and smashing up glass and doors at the family home."

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      6 months ago

      He was having a mental health crisis. But instead of being helped, he was executed by a full grown man afraid of a boy with a stick

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        6 months ago

        A stick with a heavy pointy piece of metal attached to it. Anything can be a weapon and some are more effective than others.

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          6 months ago

          Anything can be a weapon

          Well, that explains the trend of cops shooting people with random objects in their hands. And acorns.