The video shows Officer Ryan Westlake speaking to Tavion Koonce-Williams through his car window and seconds later firing his weapon toward the teen, whose arms were raised.
It’s kinda crazy to think about, as a kid twenty some years ago I used to run around with friends up and down the street with toy guns in our hands and we never got the cops called on us. We were white, of course.
We had bb guns. They launched actual projectiles and looked almost exactly like small caliber lever action rifles. I don’t think you could kill much (maybe mice?) with them but they’d send varmints running. When I got a little older, airsoft became a big thing. Some of those were super realistic and they were definitely more powerful than the old Daisy at the time. We never had the cops called, but we were white in a very rural white place.
Now I feel like Grandpa Simpson rambling with a story that isn’t going anywhere.
It’s kinda crazy to think about, as a kid twenty some years ago I used to run around with friends up and down the street with toy guns in our hands and we never got the cops called on us. We were white, of course.
Same.
I had a toy uzi that looked just like the real thing.
I wouldn’t buy my kids a similar toy these days for a number of reasons, but I don’t think I deserved to be shot on sight.
We had bb guns. They launched actual projectiles and looked almost exactly like small caliber lever action rifles. I don’t think you could kill much (maybe mice?) with them but they’d send varmints running. When I got a little older, airsoft became a big thing. Some of those were super realistic and they were definitely more powerful than the old Daisy at the time. We never had the cops called, but we were white in a very rural white place.
Now I feel like Grandpa Simpson rambling with a story that isn’t going anywhere.