Police self,jus the same every were. Always feeling like the have a licence to kill.
A 12-year-old boy has been shot and seriously
injured by an American police officer in Cleveland,
Ohio, when the boy reached into his waistband for
an airsoft gun.
The shooting took place outside a recreation
center on Saturday afternoon.
Deputy Chief of Field Operations Ed Tomba said
police went to the area after reports that a male
was allegedly threatening people with a gun
outside Cudell Recreation Center.
Two officers were sent and they found the boy
with a gun.
Police said the boy did not comply with orders
and reached into his waistband. But the child did
not threaten the officer verbally or physically.
One of the officers shot the victim in the torso.
He was in surgery at Metro Health Medical
Center.
The weapon the boy had was “an airsoft type
replica gun resembling a semi-automatic pistol,”
according to police.
"We don't come to work every day and want to
use force on anybody," Tomba said.
"That's not what our job is. We're part of this
community," he added.
The incident happened one day after another
shooting left four people killed and another
person injured inside a home in Cleveland.
The shooting left two men and two women, one
of whom pregnant, dead and a 10-year-old girl
wounded.
The girl, who witnessed the shooting, was taken
to a hospital and is expected to recover.
The US averages 87 gun deaths each day as a
result of gun violence, with an average of 183
injured, according to the University of Chicago
Crime Lab and the Centers for Disease Control.
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