So many questions
Regarding the Akron police officer’s shooting of a youth who was holding a fake gun …
Did the father know his son had such a “toy gun”? Did the mother know her son had such a “toy gun”? Did the friends of the 15-year-old boy know he had a “toy guy”?
Did the person who called police make mention of a “toy gun”? Did the police officer who came about this person know in “a split second” it was a “toy gun” in the teen’s right hand?
In the time it took to read the above, more than 20 shots of a real gun of that type could have been fired. Could you or any police officer have taken a chance of it being a “toy gun”?
The family’s lawyer made mention that Ohio is a state with the right to carry. Does that law give a minor the right to carry a handgun in his hand in public or even holstered? A minor, I think not!
I would like to know if this lawyer, upon leaving his office, a teenager confronted him, gun in hand, would he reply, “Put that ‘toy gun’ away,” or would he plead for his life?