I doubt we're getting the whole story.

Hard to call.

 

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If the kid had a real gun and had murdered a dozen of his classmates i get the feeling swirly would still hate the cops for doing their job

 

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15 years old in 8th grade is not all that wacky. It means he will graduate high school at age 19, a year older than most, and 2 years older than a very few. Perhaps he was held back a grade, who knows, but that age is not that crazy to think about.


As for scenarios that let the kid live, it's pretty hard to judge beyond the facts that we see in the article.

Fact: The gun the kid had was convincingly REAL looking.

Fact: The kid had what was easily confused for a REAL gun in a SCHOOL - and this has been an area of particular concern over the past 20 years due to various tragedies relating to school violence.

Fact: The police yelled for the kid to drop the gun before shooting (this is corroborated by teachers).


I suppose there will be more information coming to light about this though I suspect that there is precious little else to say that would change the salient facts of the story or else it would have been splattered all over the media by now. We shall see though.

 

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Truely you cant be this much of an idiot. Why dont you read the story before you make such stupid statements. The kid got into a fight earlier before pulling out the gun putting the school on lockdown. The teachers verified and collaborated what the police said, end of story.

 

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All we've got is part of an account by the couple people who shot him and a dead kid. It sounds like he was troubled. Justified or not this is a tragedy. Wouldn't a tazer be the go-to in the case of an 8th grader? I've never seen a pellet gun that looks like that.

 

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Id like to see anyone of you assclowns take a tazer to a gun fight and see how well you do.

We have the teachers and the police giving the same story. I dont think cops are going to take a few hours trying to figure out the mental status of some 15 year old punk holding a gun in a locked down school. The kid had nearly 20 minutes to drop that gun before he was killed. Comply with what the officers say and drop the gun or prepare for the consequences.

 

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I think swirly would find fault with officers who stopped someone from raping his kid with a chainsaw.

@Swirly: Either you are a troll or an idiot. However, if you attempt to troll and make yourself look like an idiot you revert back to option #1.

Since you have a wonderful track record on thinking all coppers are worse than Dr. Mengele I will guess this is not a troll.

(in short, you're coming off like an idiot)

 

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I wouldn't want to be the cop in that situation, whatever you do might end up being the wrong decision. That being said your whole country needs to come down and chill out a bit. You're way too immature and trigger happy and then you start crying when stuff like this happens.

 

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This kid went into a classroom brandishing the firearm..struck a kid in the face, then went out into the hallway and waited.

Police were called and he drew his weapon and pointed it at the cops.

There is audio of an AP calling 911 and you can hear the police asking about 15 times in 20 secs to drop the weapon.

He didn't and paid for his stupidity.

I'd almost say this was suicide by cops.

Rest of you are morons for blaming the police. They gave the kids 20+ secs to respond to demands to drop the weapon. I am surprised they waited that long.


EDIT: Found the web page and audio clip...

http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/articles/gun-135486-call-gonzalez.html

 

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Haha wow, what a bunch of incompetent, incoherent, douchenozzle asswipes those school administrators, especially that asst. principal were. If those idiots handle every emergency with that degree of blathering, incoherence, and inability to focus and be coherent, I would not want them anywhere near a whole building full of kids.

 

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