Autistic man with toy gun shot dead by police in Florida

[DMac]

sigh...

September 01, 2011 - A man whose family said he was autistic was killed by police in North Miami Beach after pointing a real-looking toy gun at an officer, police said Thursday. (Sept. 1)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGYSfX-0Ru8

[mick silver]

i bet they went out after work and had a few beers , what a good day we had removing a killer off the streets

[Spectrism]

I remember growing up playing with toy guns.

How is it so evil now for toy guns? Why do the cops have to confront & shoot anyone with a gun?

[chad]

did you hear the cop say "anyone can get these toy guns?" yeah, we need toy gun control.

[horseshoe3]

I remember growing up playing with toy guns.

How is it so evil now for toy guns? Why do the cops have to confront & shoot anyone with a gun?

I played with toy guns too. But we never pointed them at anyone except the friends we were playing with who knew they were fake. Pointing a real looking toy gun at any unsuspecting person is asking for trouble, cop or not.

[sirgonzo420]

did you hear the cop say "anyone can get these toy guns?" yeah, we need toy gun control.

When toy guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have toy guns!

[Spectrism]

I played with toy guns too. But we never pointed them at anyone except the friends we were playing with who knew they were fake. Pointing a real looking toy gun at any unsuspecting person is asking for trouble, cop or not.

True.

But in the old days, we did not see cops every hour. Not even every day... or week. Now they are everywhere and frightened, fearful, cowardly people call them for everything. Also, there is a vast decline in morality with larger numbers of criminals walking the streets.

[mick silver]

plus dont cops get training . most toy guns have the barrel filled

[Dogman]

Do not care for cops myself , but some toy guns out there do look real as hell. So this maybe a case the cops shot because they did not know.

http://www.gorillasushi.com/images/imce/Image/Jason/captions/gunkids.jpg

http://www.historicreplicaguns.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/realistictoygun.jpg

This goes beyond who is carrying one, to what they look like and how people will react if they do not know that they are toys?!

http://www.historicreplicaguns.com/blog/realistic-toy-guns.html

Kids have been killed because their toys looked real.

[undgrd]

This is a 57 year old mentally disabled man pointing a toy gun at a police officer. The man apparently did not have the mental capacity to understand his actions. The police officer apparently did not know he was a mentally disabled man and he had a toy gun.

Based on this information, at this point, to call this anything other than a tragic accident is incorrect IMO.

[Hatha Sunahara]

I have a 25 year old autistic son. One of my main concerns for him is to protect him from the police. I worry a whole lot less about protecting him from other people. The police are armed and dangerous, and quite often stupid. They are organized well enough to protect themselves from the consequences of their mistakes, their overreactions, and are trained to brutally elicit 'compliance' which almost always goes far beyond what normal people consider compliance. Someone who cannot speak, or cannot comprehend what the police are ordering is in mortal danger in the presence of cops. I often think the police are there for people who are depressed and want to end it all, and need a willing executioner. Suicide by police is what I call it. Otherwise, the police are more than willing to execute people who they deem 'euthenizable'. They call it 'cleaning out the garbage'. They are not accountable by our society for any damages they do. We can see that in this case quite clearly.

Hatha