California officer shoots and kills boy, 15, holding gardening tool

https://lemmy.today/post/7821033

California officer shoots and kills boy, 15, holding gardening tool - Lemmy Today

I saw the body cam, that kid was charging at the cop, he wasn’t just sitting in his front lawn taking care of some flowers. The only real question I have is what was that cop doing there in the first place?

The San Bernardino county sheriff’s department was responding to a 911 call on Saturday from a family reporting that a boy, identified as Ryan Gainer, was attacking his family at their home in Apple Valley, east of Los Angeles.

you don’t call the cops on your own family lightly unless you really are an asshole…
If I’m at a point where my life is being threatened and I can’t de-escalate, you best believe I’m calling 911. Cops are called all the time and help in situations like this; this cop was just incompetent