13-Year-Old With Replica Gun Shot By a Baltimore Police Officer

blackmattersus:

Plain Clothes Officers shot a 13-year-old boy on Wednesday. They say he was brandishing what appeared to be a semi-automatic pistol and then ran from officers. It turned out to be a replica gun.

Police say it all started when two detectives were driving in the area and noticed the teen with what appeared to be a gun. They chased him 150 yards before shooting (WHILE NOT WEARING THEIR UNIFORM). As the witness says, boy repeatedly told officers it was a fake gun, but they didn’t listen.

Thank god that boy suffered non life-threatening injuries and is going to recover soon, but how is it for a 13-year-old boy the experience being shot by the police officers? Especially after all America mourned about Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot for playing  with a toy gun.

I am not even surprised this boy tried to run away as fast as he could.

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