Armed eighth-grader shot and killed by police, page 6

reply to post by MrWendal

edit to add: Yes!! If my child brought a gun to school and pointed it at Police Officers and she was shot and killed as a result, my opinion would be the same. As a matter of fact, my opinion would be the same but considerably stronger because I KNOW my kid knows better and knows what the result of such an action would be.

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That's all you had to say.

Two officers fired three shots, hitting Gonzalez at least twice, police said.

edmonton.ctv.ca...

So in the end it was the Police that fired rounds in the school. 2 of them hitting the target and one going stray. The kid who started it all had a pellet gun.

People say it's quite justified killing the kid. But I have to agree to disagree. Why are there all these non-lethal alternatives if they aren't used?

Concussion grenades, Beanbag guns, Tazers and the like. If the Police are firing shots into a school hallway I have to assume that there was no immediate kids in the line of fire. Seems like they could have been more tactical with their resolution.

Also, it seems he was shot from the back of the head.

Less than two minutes later, someone yells over the radio "shots fired" and emergency crews are asked to respond. About two minutes later, someone asks where the boy was shot, prompting responses that he was shot in the chest and "from the back of the head."

edmonton.ctv.ca...
No one else thinks there might have been a better resolution available?

reply to post by boncho

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Hypothetical:
The gun WAS real, the police throw a percussion grenade, the stunned kid fires indiscriminately into a crowd and someone dies.

Damned if you do – damned if you don’t.

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