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Another black teenager 14 year old Dedric Colvin was shot by police for playing with a toy gun, on the anniversary of Freddie Gray's murder no less. Police are again using the ridiculous lie that he pointed the gun at them. Luckily it is believed he will survive the shooting, but this will likely happen again. And since the police are not required to record information about shootings like this. It is not known how many times this occurs in america unless it makes the news. The NRA and other so called "2nd amendment rights" activists will of course, back the police on this as well.
Youth with BB gun resembling firearm shot by police in East Baltimore - Baltimore Sun
Do you think the police should be required to keep track of data, concerning shootings? Do you think toy guns should be illegal? Do police have the right to interrogate and arrest someone for holding a gun in public?
Baltimore police detective shot a boy in East Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon who he wrongly believed was carrying a semiautomatic pistol, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said.
The boy suffered what police called non-life-threatening injuries to a "lower extremity," Davis said. The weapon turned out to be spring-air-powered BB gun — not a real firearm.
The boy's mother identified him as 14-year-old Dedric Colvin, an eighth-grader at City Springs Middle School. Volanda Young said her son was shot once in the shoulder and once in the leg.
The incident came on the day city officials marked the one-year anniversary of the Freddie Gray riots.
Davis said two plainclothes detectives assigned to the Police Department's intelligence section were driving in the 1100 block of E. Baltimore St. shortly after 4 p.m. Wednesday when they spotted the boy with what appeared to be a firearm.
. "We can't allow someone to walk down the street in broad daylight anywhere in Baltimore with what looks to be a semiautomatic pistol in their hand."
Youth with BB gun resembling firearm shot by police in East Baltimore - Baltimore Sun
Do you think the police should be required to keep track of data, concerning shootings? Do you think toy guns should be illegal? Do police have the right to interrogate and arrest someone for holding a gun in public?