Boy playing with toy gun is shot by sheriff’s deputy
A boy in Palmdale who was playing cops and robbers with a toy gun was shot and wounded Sunday night by a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, authorities said.
The boy was shot in the upper torso, said Deputy Ed Hernandez, a sheriff’s spokesman. He declined to release the victim’s name or age. A witness told reporters for KABC-TV Channel 7 that the boy was 15.
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Gordon said deputies responded to reports about 8 p.m. that someone was riding a bicycle and brandishing a handgun. Deputies spotted the rider and ordered him to drop the weapon but instead, Gordon says, he pointed it at the deputies.
The deputies, fearing for their lives, shot him once,” Hernandez said. “Later on, they determined it was a juvenile playing cops and robbers.”
Fifteen — aren’t we a little old to be playing cops and robbers? And shouldn’t we know by now that a cop is going to get really scared if you point something that looks like a gun at him? That’ll be voting in three years, which’ll just make my day. Assuming it isn’t in prison before then, which would also make my day.
Besides, the problem with playing Cops and Robbers in modern day Southern California is that nobody wants to be the cop :)
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