Cops Chase Innocent 10-Year-Old With Guns Drawn

Via YouTube: Newark, N.J. police officers who were carrying shotguns chased a 10-year-old boy through the streets on Aug. 14 after police say they mistook Legend Preston, a local fifth grader, for an adult man who was a robbery suspect, the New York Daily News reports. The Daily News is also reporting that neighbors who saw cops with their guns drawn and running after Preston formed a human shield around the boy to protect him from police.
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greatgooglymooglysays...

I hope the boy's mother talked to him about the dangers of running from cops. Not that what they were right, but right vs wrong doesn't matter too much when you are dead.

C-notesays...

There is nothing a black man in america can do to stop a police officer from shooting them. It is like trying to give advice to the hunted lion on how to avoid becoming a trophy kill. "He was coming right at us!" South Park.

newtboysays...

Of course they went after him with guns drawn and aimed...he admitted he had just been shooting in the interview.

Gun safety says you never point your gun at anything you don't intend to shoot, and never shoot at anything you don't intend to kill. Fire every cop that pulled their gun, please, and not one day of paid leave first.

Good thing he ran home and others came to his rescue, or who knows what the outcome might have been. This is why people are sniping cops, because cops are being murderous. Turnabout is fair play, and protecting your community is reasonable, even if it's protecting it from those charged with protecting it.

It's time to force police to not only wear body cameras that can't be turned off or erased but also holsters that indicate every time they pull their weapons, and require evidence (video or physical evidence, not their word) that it was warranted or be charged with a felony like any other citizen would be. Tampering with or otherwise disabling the camera should also be felonious, punishable by mandatory prison time...imo.
Legislators, get to it.

poolcleanersays...

Friends and neighbors had to form a human shield to protect a child playing basketball from adults with guns drawn!? And these adults are called the police and demand our respect? Fucking assholes. Not that it surprises me...

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