ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – New video Thursday night showed Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office deputies desperately trying to convince two little boys to hand over a loaded gun. In the video, the boys, ages seven and nine, can be seen carelessly holding the loaded gun. The panicked deputies, trying to stay calm, tell the boys to put the gun down on the ground and that they’re not in trouble.
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Deputies go on to tell them this isn’t a game. Another deputy can be heard yelling to the boys that they’re trying to help them. A deputy said he really didn’t want to shoot the kids with non-lethal rounds, but the two wouldn’t put the gun down. What looks like a bean bag or rubber ball is fired toward the kids, who then eventually give up the gun. BCSO did not say how the children got the gun.
BCSO held a news conference Thursday to highlight the work of its Behavioral Health Unit, especially with youth. They said this incident happened on February 16. They also said BCSO’s drone program helped monitor the situation in real time…