Akron Police Department releases body camera video of teen suspect shot by officer

[@miqallen6393]

Let me get this straight. The kid is walking home from his cousins funeral, where he thought it made sense to bring a realistic looking gun....starts pointing at houses while in some fantasy world all by himself like an 8-year old, sees a cop and doesnt think to drop the gun IMMEDIATLY ??? Why do I have this feeling his cousin's funeral was the result of being shot ? Someone needs to instill some common sense to some of these kids because its clearly lacking. If I had done this at 15 my dad wouldve whooped my ass to where i couldnt sit down for a week.

[@The_Chosen_None_]

Kid is lucky hes not dead

[@sereanaduwai8313]

That’s what you call dumb.

[@Don-mi6zl]

The wannabe murderer is also incompetent. Luckily he doesn't practice shooting and missed his kill.

[@mongoosevsgt]

How is he a murderer for defending himself from a suspect who even acknowledges he was a threat and he knew the cop saw the gun in his hand by screaming ,”it’s fake” after the fact???

[@Don-mi6zl]

@@mongoosevsgt The cop was never in any legitimate fear for his life from the complying victim he chose to try and murder.

[@liberalshaveitallbackwards4667]

​@Don-mi6zl Punks running around waving a gun, and yet you think the cop wasn't in any danger? Wow, you wouldn't last a day as a cop, or a soldier with that kind of attitude.

[@pacifist1360]

4:30 The idiot is telling the officers how it's fake and how much it hurts and playing victim with "I'm scared bro", but he wasn't scared of pointing his gun at civilians and at the officers 🤬

[@donaldedmonds1495]

So with your thinking Dylan Roof should have been shot dead instead of being taken to Burger King on his way to jail because he actually hurt ppl? I guess only whyt kids can make mistakes....ALL 15 year old kids do stupid stuff!!!!!! That officer was willing to shoot that child in the face but by God's grace it hit his hand.......

[@patwillis1893]

Why is he walking down the street pointing a fake gun at people's houses. It's fake but looks real . He is lucky to be alive. What a stupid thing to do. 😩

[@israeliqueen153]

that's the caller's statement. it hasn't been proven yet but I'm sure somebody has video cams.

[@maxheadroom4659]

darwin award winner.

[@mb9662]

He was coming from his cousin’s funeral where they handed out realistic-looking fake guns to all the attendees…

[@patwillis1893]

@@mb9662 why the h--- would people hand out fake guns at a funeral. If this is true then they need to have there heads examined. That's crazy. 🥺😩

[@theeater1756]

@@mb9662 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 As one of course does at such gatherings!!!

[@maxheadroom4659]

doesnt matter if its fake if you wave it around and point it at houses.

[@tyronejackson1314]

And just how do you know he was waving it....oh Karen is very reliable

[@somethingtrulyhorrifying]

@@tyronejackson1314 bruh...it's a 15-year-old carrying a fake tec-9. You know damn well he was pointing that in all directions. He literally had it in his hand when the cop rolled up on him. Use critical thinking before calling names.

[@Mustards1200s]

@@somethingtrulyhorrifying Explain how Bundy was able to have an armed standoff out west on federal land? Pointing real weapons at cops?

[@martinbramah2224]

@@somethingtrulyhorrifying Is there something about fake tec-9s that makes them utterly irresistible to "pointing them in all directions" ??? Also, is having a gun in your hand the same thing as (or evidence of having previously been) pointing/waving it in all directions?

[@somethingtrulyhorrifying]

@@martinbramah2224 It doesn't matter if it's a tec-9 or jennings-9, these types of kids don't walk around holding them without goofing around with them. A teenager isn't going to be walking around with a fake gun just to "be safe", that's the dumbest sht I've heard in a while.

[@peterbartholomew5282]

And the reason to the question WKYC is too afraid to ask.Why was this "innocent "teen carrying around a fake gun to begin with Might be important to ask that question.Typical horrible media coverage.WKYC do better

[@aravind787]

I am sure the answer will just be "kids will be kids"

[@ThorneyGryffon]

He was building up the courage to pull off a robbery or he wanted the kids to think he was a hard gangsta. Maybe he was being bullied. It was really dumb thing to do em either way.

[@brianstack8379]

Citizen, sees gun, calls police. Dispatch relates to officer subject seen with a gun. Officer is now in high alert concerning a gun. The subject is holding a gun, later seen on grass, there is no law restricting that an officer has to wait to be fired on, before he/she shoots. We do not see the movement of the subject prior to him being shot. The officer quickly gives medical aid to the injured subject. Sadly, it was determined later it was not a functional firearm. The officer's actions were justified at the time of this occurrence.

[@patwillis1893]

Remember everybody. Do not.. and I repeat do not. Walk down the street waving a gun fake or not. Somebody is going to call the police. The police do not know if the gun is fake or not

[@kingofkingsohio]

That's true

[@BravoTangoAviation]

Ohio is an open carry state. The law says you can legally walk down the street with a gun. I know it's stupid but the cops can't shot everyone with a gun in a state where laws a passed that says carrying the gun in the open is legal.

[@No_Hate_2024]

You mean like Kyle Rittenhouse?

[@The_Chosen_None_]

@@No_Hate_2024 when did Kyle wave his gun around? More on

[@TheThingNG]

Exactly. Cops are eager to kill you for any reason. They are not trained in trigger discipline, situational awareness, and de-escalation tactics.

[@BudinVegas]

Who raised this out of touch teenager? How stupid to show a gun to the police and say, "It's fake". GET REAL.

[@FreeFly69-um5ln]

Classic case of “fuck around and find out”.

[@Scorch1028]

Yeah, that is incredibly stupid.

[@LadieKadie]

Now he knows guns are no joke.

[@Charlie-n7i]

People like that poor soul think that the police should have telepathic powers and when they see a gun the police should use their spidy senses and know that the gun is fake. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Obamas_Nipple]

he didnt learn a single lesson that day

[@Scorch1028]

@@Charlie-n7i I think that kid has some kind of "prenatal" cognitive defect.

[@monk3yBon3]

💯

[@Don-mi6zl]

​@@Charlie-n7iI just think police shouldn't attempt to murder complying victims who have committed no crime. It not like that have a job that is as deadly as a garbage man's.

[@tenncutt]

The parents ought to be investigated for stupidity. Do they really think the cop couldn't have shot him dead for his behavior? Why didn't the kid drop the gun? Teach your young Black men not to wave ANY gun around in public. By the way, his color had nothing to do with it. They would have shot anybody doing what he did. He is very, very lucky to be alive.

[@tyronejackson1314]

It was never proven that he waved the gun

[@gooddaymba6641]

It was a toy gun.

[@HappyDudeCustoms]

Impeccable aim! He shot the gun out of his hand!

[@lisamccurdy4099]

His hands were up as he screamed "it's a toy".

[@Jtzist]

Why is he going around weaving a fake gun in neighborhoods? As if Tamir Rice wasn't an example.

[@feyfey6874]

Every wht and wht cop was blamed it was disgusting that the mother never got charged but the officers did! Look at the cuyahoga juvenile look at all the young kids who have shot or murdered with guns then u understand how stupid this kids actions was

[@joshuagarlock3058]

So we're going to take Karen's opinion of events here? If you side with the cops you must definitely agree we have no constitutional right to open carry. Unless he was active ly pointing it at a house the officer's duty is to investigate, not assume. This basically guts open carry as a constitutional right if we side with police not investigating.

[@ohioguy215]

​@@joshuagarlock3058 Kids have no right to open carry Sherlock ... fake ... who the fk knows.

[@Jtzist]

@joshuagarlock3058 so if someone was pointing a fake gun at you and was a teenager about 6ft you wouldn't call the cops? In order to know if the gun is real or fake without calling the cops let us know. I'm not taking chances.

[@Arabian_guy]

Why on earth walking with fake or non fake gun ..is it cool to hold a gun Stupidity has no age I guess…

[@chunhchan]

Toy guns should not look realistic.

[@Don-mi6zl]

​@Dustin-sj4jpThe victim did nothing wrong. The would be murderer cop on the other hand needs to spend a decade in prison for attempted murder.

[@88997799]

That’s what happens when you play gangster.

[@Scorch1028]

This teen is from Akron, where over a thousand students just got in a massive high school brawl.

[@vandy3427]

But it was okay for kyle rittenhouse to walk around with an AR-15...

[@martinbramah2224]

I guess he should've just been wearing a sign telling everyone that he was merely "exercising his precious Second Amendment Constitutional rights" and this wouldn't have happened, right??? It will come as no surprise to any thinking person that a white guy (also in Akron, Ohio!) who openly carried his pistol and his rifle on his back did NOT get shot or killed by the police. That was in 2015: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKi3emWDrNqbask

[@markg2294]

Like you didn’t play with cap guns when you were young. Goofy ahh. You just saying it cuz it’s a black kid.

[@1hunterdale]

@@vandy3427 kyle rittenhouse wasnt point his ar around and it was durning city riot .plus you dont live in akron these people are off the hook

[@dirkpitt5468]

Luck that policeman was a good shot and didn't put one center mass.

[@Scorch1028]

This all goes back to the parents. This teen's parents had no idea that he was walking around with a real-looking gun.

[@all4right702]

How does it go back to the parents if they had no idea?

[@Catnymph2006]

Did you never do anything your parents didn’t know about? Never? Kids do stupid things all the time. He made a serious mistake while grieving his friend and the officer seemed to have done exactly as he should’ve. Not every dumb thing a kid does is the parent’s fault.

[@sammayhew4877]

He may not have parents, first place he mentioned was his "granny" Assuming his situation obviously but it's hard not having parents around. I hope he learned his lesson and glad he wasn't hurt worse. Police officer 1000 percent justified and either has the best aim in history or also got lucky he didn't kill the kid.

[@jptruth2372]

Oh 🖕🏽 dude! Justified my ass! Police are corrupt murderers! ​@@sammayhew4877

[@mikekendzierski6349]

The only thing the kid did wrong was turn toward the cop with the gun in his hand. We used to play with fake (toy) guns all the time when I was a kid, but it was a different time.

[@donames7274]

This is why I'm not law enforcement. I don't repeat myself and I don't count to 3. In less than a second of time the officer has to make a decision. It's not right that everyone now is being investigated but the family of the 15 year old that should have known better.

[@beans-beans-theyre-good-fo8943]

Wait I'm confused. The protocol is to fire your weapon at the same time as you give the first command?

[@dylanryanmoore]

Um yes when ur a cop and a guy turns at you with a gun in his hand that is protocol.

[@popcorn5130]

The "protocol" is to defend yourself and/or others from a perceived imminent deadly threat. That deadly threat can be instantaneous, it may come minutes or hours later, or it may never come. If an Officer encounters a person with a gun in hand... after having received a report of that person pointing the gun at potentially occupied houses... and that person lifts the gun while in close proximity to and facing the Officer (in this case, it appears he lifted it in order to toss it, but that isn't always the case, and an Officer doesn't have to, and shouldn't have to, wait to find out WHY they're lifting the gun -- the guy would've been better off if he had just dropped it straight down instead of lifting his hand to toss it... or never had the gun in the first place), that Officer has every right to defend himself from that perceived deadly threat IMMEDIATELY, even before any command. (And, if you want to argue that he tossed the gun so the Officer should never have shot, I challenge you to act out the scenario yourself -- use fake props and have someone play the suspect and hold a pretend gun in hand, then you play the Officer and have a pretend gun, then have the other person play several scenarios of him either raising the pretend gun to shoot you or raising it to toss it away, and realize how quick it happens and how the average person's brain can't discern the difference until it's too late... and you may have ended up shot. The Police practice this in Shoot/Don't Shoot scenarios, and, even with extensive training, they sometimes just don't have enough time to determine if a threat is real or not... and, to defend themselves, they act on the perceived threat.) Just imagine if the guy had had a real gun and started spraying rounds at the Officer, would you expect that the Officer would still have to give a "first command" before being able to actively defend himself? 🤦‍♂ ijs

[@ytaaccount]

@@popcorn5130 nice try - or maybe not. i hope you dont confuse longwindedness with persuasiveness

[@sebastianpoe3934]

​@@ytaaccountyou're an idiot. Kid was asking for it. Plan and simple

[@folv6631]

​@@ytaaccount Dude was thorough, but ill be brief. You're just illiterate

[@erics2305]

This is a strange incident in different ways. Firstly, I'm asking myself why the officer rolled right up to the suspect. I'm not a police officer, but wouldn't it make more sense to watch from a distance and then maybe approach from 50 m away or so with a long gun? Then, it seems almost impossible to hit a hand holding a gun right from the draw as he did. Also, he shot right after asking the suspect to show his hands. Maybe it really was an accidental discharge, as people in the comments are saying, that would make sense. Then, lastly, why on earth would you walk around with a toy gun and point it at people's homes after coming home from a funeral??? Hopefully, they will find out what exactly happened here.

[@tyronejackson1314]

The cop was let go, he claimed he fired the gun by mistake. The same cop pulled a gun on his own girlfriend, and lastly, no one who came forward said that had not seen the boy pointing the gun at anything.

[@erics2305]

@@tyronejackson1314 That seems credible that he fired the gun by mistake.

[@lmcatech]

@@tyronejackson1314 Bull shit.

[@1219superman]

Kids are stupidly out of control with crap parents n no accountability whatsoever

[@nstix2009xitsn]

Not only should the perp be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but so should his unfit mother. She raised him to think he has a right to brandish and wave guns around in public.

[@mitchellgarrett5124]

A 15 year old black boy should know better. Teenage boy known to carry guns. All black on too!?

[@pamelacurtis6227]

Good kids don’t walk around with guns

[@NYVoice]

He gets As in school, plays sports? Walking home from a funeral? Not sure where his head is at.

[@kingofkingsohio]

is the hood kids don't be thinking sometimes

[@BudinVegas]

Too stupid to even have a "FAKE" gun.

[@JoshuaMenninger]

Incorrect application of a tourniquet... Kid may have lost an arm because of it, direct pressure and or pressure bandage in this situation. There is not arterial bleeding.

[@crazyworld2570]

Exactly

[@tommycasidy3031]

I guess the police officers didn't have time to become medical doctors before this innocent 😂

[@CODYORMOE]

Oh well, mine’s real.

[@Scorch1028]

That kid will never be able to beat off with that hand again. 😆

[@JohnathanBaptiste-l2x]

That was less than 30’s out and of his car he shot but Kyle Rittenhouse can walk up with a rifle hanging around his neck towards over 10 police in an active shooter scenario and not one shot is fired

[@mongoosevsgt]

LOL You are too dumb to have reason or logical thinking. Rittenhouse wasn't a threat to the community nor was he walking around pointing his gun at people. Totally different scenarios AND atmosphere. ALSO, his rifle was holstered as that is how you carry a rifle LEGALLY in an open carry state!

[@eristicfreethinker2098]

Looks like two bad decisions. First bad decision was made by the kid. He definitely deserved to be investigated to determine if he was a threat. Second bad decision was made by the cop who shot first and then investigated. There were no other people around and no one was in immediate danger. All the cop had to do was park a reasonable distance away, instruct the kid to drop the weapon and wait for additional units.

[@toms7280]

If the cop's fired bullet had missed the boy, then a house would really have been hit by a real gun bullet. Oh my.🤨

[@longkesh1971]

Yeah, I noticed on the audio that the cop really didn't know where his shot went. Not cool for the people who's house is in the background. Police do that all the time and a lot of police are allowed to carry AR-15s, which have a range of 600 yards. That's pretty scary if police pull someone over in front of your house because you are in danger too.

[@sebastianpoe3934]

Also getting shot and killed yourself is kinda bad to. The 15 year old kid put everyone in danger, not the cop. He only acted in self defense

[@KingNiros]

That cop fired just as fast as he needed to. Had that been a real gun and had that kid wanted to fire at the officer, the officer fired just in time to save himself. You can't take chances in a split second possible life/death situation. It's called logic.

[@HawooAwoo]

Judging by how he only fired a single shot and seemed to jump scare himself, I suspect it was an accidental discharge

[@martinbramah2224]

So about 1 second of deliberation was enough on the cop's part, eh? Was the young man with the gun pointing it at the officer or his vehicle???? (Doesn't look like it to me) So you also think that Daniel Kovacevic should've been shot? (He was carrying TWO guns, also on the streets of Akron, Ohio - which is an "open carry" state, btw....) Right?? kzbin.info/www/bejne/iKi3emWDrNqbask

[@Cakebattered]

If cops lives come first, why do civilians even need cops? The mere presence of a firearm does not put anyone's life in danger, or else Ohio would not have have passed laws making open-carry legal. Now that's how you use logic.

[@KingNiros]

@@Cakebattered Well, your logic failed because it wasn't "the mere presence of a firearm". It was him pointing it at houses and then the call was made. Huge difference.

[@KingNiros]

@@martinbramah2224 Daniel wasn't pointing his gun at multiple houses, the reason the cops were called on this guy.......

[@DWeezy62]

It's funny how the police departments get these videos out to the public fast as fuck when it helps them out. If the kid hadn't been armed, you wouldn't have seen that video until years later, if ever. There are questionable shootings that the videos have never been released.

[@thugsdaddy4412]

A's in school? Apparently he didn't take a 'common sense' class.

[@cherylclark2816]

He fucked around and found out!!

[@ytaaccount]

look at the sick jury pool here. there are no words to properly describe it. here is your answer to why cops get away with what they get away with. horrendous. nightmarish

[@ThorneyGryffon]

The kid was in the wrong, not the officer. You're the one with the Bias.

[@iMatti00]

So… if the “boy next door“ from the city or from a rural county has a fake gun then it’s probably just a kid being a kid and not making it very smart decision but just being a typical boy playing around, but if a kid with a darker tan does it in the city, and he’s just practicing to be a hard gangster and Robert. Something tells me that’s kind of where you’re going with it, maybe you know that’s where you’re going with it and don’t care or maybe you don’t quite realize how are you very possibly would approach to different scenarios. Just because Mills like him have a much statistical higher likelihood of being evolved in the legal system doesn’t mean that everyone who matches the description will end up the same.

[@lordjohnson48]

The kid was dumb scaring people in the neighborhood with a "fake" gun. It's not a race issue it's a moron issue.

[@kolleda21]

You are horrendous and nightmarish. You are not intelligent by any stretch of the imagination. Keep on believing that the jurors are the problem, not the idiots who break the laws at unprecedented rates and think that carrying a gun around and carjacking and drive by shootings are just normal every day things that normal people do. You are way off and a cancer to society

[@rjgaynor8]

@@ThorneyGryffon you are a boot licker. If he were white they would have had a stand off for a few hours.

[@Mrmango695]

Did he get charged?

[@DRightOne4888]

Ohio is an open carry state. Is this a good idea or not? The cop sees a gun and fires. Whether you’re waving it around or not, it’s not illegal to do so in Ohio and other open carry states. I for one, think it’s a stupid idea.

[@dylanryanmoore]

It is absolutely illegal to brandish a gun in that manner

[@rustyshackleford6789]

​@dylanryanmoore you can't argue with someone who thinks like that.

[@LionelLordOfTheThundercats]

@@dylanryanmoore He put his hands up and he shot his hand. What was the kid supposed to do?

[@Jman-uz6gp]

@@LionelLordOfTheThundercats He was holding the gun!

[@DRightOne4888]

@@Jman-uz6gpRight, he was holding the gun in an open carry state. What is the cop supposed to do in that situation? I think the legislatures in these open carry states are putting cops in a bad situation.

[@flanaganjames]

There is a huge disconnect between carrying a gun, pointing it at houses and being black. now he is crying like a girl. Perhaps he will know next time to not carry a gun in public pointing it a houses. I mean what did he think was gonna happen.

[@kellywarren8228]

Based on whose account? The little WHITE girl?

[@mongoosevsgt]

@@kellywarren8228 no the little black girl who called the police.

[@deathlord7918]

by the cops "oh shit" reaction to his gun going off and the speed at witch he drew and fired it almost seems like it was an accidental discharge. witch makes the shot even more insane

[@45papadoc]

Didn't his father teach him about walking around while displaying a weapon???

[@exceptionallife4768]

His father isn’t around.. feminism

[@malcolmwhite6588]

Exactly there was a guy in my town that was caught displaying his weapon and as the police approached him apparently it discharged all over the lingerie shop window where he was standing- he claimed he was just cleaning it when it went off😂

[@kjisnot]

@@exceptionallife4768 Nailed it.

[@israeliqueen153]

@@exceptionallife4768 how the hell do you know?

[@exceptionallife4768]

@@israeliqueen153 I’m a psychic… “negrodamus” lol

[@arjanpetersen]

I do hope the leo wil be not guilty.

[@Cakebattered]

Did you not watch the video? The cop asked to see the kids hands, then shoots the kids for complying? If the cop saw the gun first, would he not have commanded the kid to drop his weapon, as cops are trained to do? Its not illegal to carry a fake or real gun in OH, as its an open carry state. 911 calls are hearsay, and not evidence. Thus the cops job is to investigate, and he clearly didn't. Had the cop not missed and killed that 15 year old, that cop would go to jail, but instead he will just lose his job and the city of Akron will pay a settlement to the parents of the kid.

[@markg2294]

Bootlicker

[@93hb]

I'm sure people will blame the cop for shooting this kid 🙄

[@LionelLordOfTheThundercats]

Who should they blame? He jumped out his car and shot a kid.

[@lmcatech]

@@LionelLordOfTheThundercats The stupid kid for waving the gun around. Dumb ass.

[@crazyworld2570]

He didn’t lose his life but he might lose that arm.

[@FireSign106]

Big deal😅

[@blackmagick6798]

He's not to bright..

[@topdogred]

Too

[@ohioguy215]

Toooo brite.

[@Don-mi6zl]

I love the grammar and spelling correction by the sub 80 iq crowd. It is the one activity you have that makes you feel smart.

[@ohioguy215]

@Don-mi6zl Well Donny ... the correct usage of to, two, and too, is not an inherited trait. It must be taught. Correcting the usage is not a show of condescension ... it's a product of learning. BTW ... IQ should be capitalized in a sentence. Study.

[@maniac50ae14]

Damn, they cookin that shtt out you for your spelling and grammar... and ellipsis need three dots, not two(thats "two", not to be confused with "to" or "too")

[@leedempster4743]

You can tell the officer who shot him didn't want anything to happen to him like come on now. How many people's been shot and handcuffs have put on them . Yhis is a good cop . And for people who are talking crap, this kid was carrying it because of the neighborhood he lives in. Not trying to justify it. These officers did great. They helped him. They saved him. They didn't f****** treat him like a criminal.

[@1hunterdale]

holy shit that is very bad part of akron lots people shot thier and close to spring hill .

[@Dramacity818]

OHIO IS OPEN CARRY, even if itvwas real this would be wring. Since when is it wrong for kids to play with toy guns? If it is then why are they sold in toy stores?

[@GratefulAmerican]

I thought black kids were given “the talk”?

[@Scorch1028]

That kid wasn't given the talk. 😆

[@markg2294]

Racist fk

[@bones9179]

Lesson learned

[@Carolina_Panthers145]

This shooting should be investigated

[@chrishughes9399]

For what? The kid had a gun. You play stupid games, and you get stupid results. I'm wondering if the kid has mental problems?

[@InTheKitchenWithPete1]

Do you guys know that this cop has a history of discipline issues that was released by the police department? This guy have this policeman has an issue with using excessive force

[@mongoosevsgt]

Ok so what does that have to do with him defending himself against a guy who was brandishing a gun?

[@InTheKitchenWithPete1]

@@mongoosevsgt fake, fake, fake toy, and if you are a real cop who been on the force for so many years you should know a toy gun from a real gun.

[@dylanryanmoore]

​@@InTheKitchenWithPete1i guarantee you i can show you and a cop a picture of a real gun and a fake one and you can't tell the difference. Theres no way to tell till you're holding it yourself

[@mongoosevsgt]

@@InTheKitchenWithPete1 FACEPALM LOL Was he carrying a nerf gun or one of them big, colorful Fortnite guns? LOL

[@Jman-uz6gp]

@@InTheKitchenWithPete1 Don't look fake, it looks just like a real gun, especially from distance.

[@natashawillis9987]

That kid almost ended up to be the next Tamir Rice or John Crawford. Good thing the he was only hit in the hand. Now he can live to testify against this officer and get a settlement that will pay his way through college.

[@ThorneyGryffon]

He won't get anything. That gun looked real and he pointed it towards the officer.

[@catherinesmith312]

A kid carrying a fake gun waiting to build up the curate to rob somebody with it. Even concealed carry licensed adults can't do what this kid did.

[@ryanjones4573]

Not to mention, I’m pretty sure he said “I just wanted to be tased” which would lead most reasonable people to assume that his intent was to be confronted by a police officer and was to be engaged in some sort of altercation which, when a gun is involved, could have most certainly ended with this young man in a much worse state.

[@john2510]

He claims he wasn't pointing it at houses. I guess the woman who called it in has X-ray vision and saw it through his jacket. The video doesn't capture what happened, but since the cop fired and gun is on the ground, it looks like he had it out when the cop fired. Yes. He's very lucky to be alive.

[@The_Chosen_None_]

How else would she have seen the weapon, genius?

[@john2510]

@@The_Chosen_None_ Wow. You might want to have an adult explain the concept of sarcasm to you.

[@Mike44460]

Well, the family has a lawyer, and he says Black boys should not get shot for walking around Akron. How about the lawyer saying walking around pointing a gun, real or fake, is a really dumb thing to do. Nah, we'll never hear that.

[@Nan_on_the_right]

Anyone expecting the cop to wait to find out the gun was fake is a not a serious person.

[@deloreandreamer]

Can I expect the officer to acquire, identify, and then isolated his target before discharging a round? How about making sure his vehicle is stopped and that he is in a proper position to discharge the weapon? He was how close, not out of his vehicle and had one round discharged while the kid is yelling it’s fake and complying. I think there is room for improvement in this officers response training.

[@longkesh1971]

@@deloreandreamer Listening to the audio, that police officer didn't know where his round went when he shot it. That house in the background could have been shot with a whole magazine if the kid had ran.

[@TrappingTheMitten-JohnHowell]

​@@deloreandreamerI agree that there may be room for additional training here. HOWEVER, I do not know anything about the officer involved. This may well have been the first time he ever was out in this situation. I'm happy that he is home with his family. My youngest son is a county deputy in northern Michigan. I pray he never has to go through this in his carrer. If he does, I pray that he is as fortunate as the officer here. Home safe with his family.

[@Cakebattered]

@@TrappingTheMitten-JohnHowell When cops lives matter more than the fellow citizens they proclaim to protect, citizens no longer need cops.

[@deloreandreamer]

@@longkesh1971 that's my point. the officers weapon was discharged before making sure that he was ready to fire.

[@billbonu1639]

That's a bunch of BS.I watch Adam 12 every day and this IS NOT how the police behave!

[@donames7274]

Adam 12 was 50 years ago. This is what the country has evolved to.

[@jlmu2583]

The Cop should've been fired for this.

[@OMGpandemic]

Should get a raise

[@Norwegian733]

They need to buy new scissors - not cheap chinese ones 😂

[@laurabutler6253]

The caller stated it was a gun. This was a "caller". The gun was on the ground and hands up. The cop shot him anyway-he missed.

[@sebastianpoe3934]

How do you know that?

[@ThorneyGryffon]

The gun was in his hand until it was shot, then it fell to the ground.

[@sebastianpoe3934]

@@ThorneyGryffon Yeah that was my understanding by the slow mo video I watched. Just watching the regular video you can't tell either or. So I'm curious as to how this Laura person is so confident that she can accuse someone of shooting an unarmed child. Which is a very steep accusations and affects society as a whole.

[@chrishughes9399]

The gun was on the ground AFTER he was shot because he was pointing it at houses. Stupid thing he did. Even my stupid was the parents who let him walk around, pointing at houses of person.

[@fallrookmike]

That kid is lucky. He still has a face.

[@kingslayerdamocles3019]

Why did the cop stop his body? Cam is it because he admitted to another officer he knew the gun was fake.

[@Qqxx22]

Back in the day kids could go down the street with a toy gun and it was fine. Most knew better than to point it at people but I’d they did it mostly resulted in adults yelling at them. These days it’s down right ignorant to walk down the street with replica guns. Just asking for trouble

[@dreyddog19]

They look more real now, they have tons of school shootings now. It's a different world. I tell my boy (14) listen to everything an officer says and do what he asks. Do not hit your sister, you could now be charged with assault. You can't touch another person unless you have their consent first. When I was a kid it was "boys are the gas, girls are the breaks." Not anymore, both people have to 100% verbally consent to intimacy.

[@Qqxx22]

@@dreyddog19 yeah that’s my point. It’s a different world. I remember when I was a kid I wold have tons of toy guns 90s - 2000s. But kids today with any type of gun are assumed a threat before anything else. Cops shoot first ask questions later, and I could argue for good reason. It’s irresponsible of the parents to allow kids to have such toys. Potentially parental negligence. But they’ll blame the cops I’m sure.

[@thomassantorelli787]

Looks like they caught him red handed. This video should be played all month during Black History Month LOL

[@TWOSU_NEWS]

It’s not against the law to open carry…

[@daniellewilliams4417]

Kids have no right for open carry whatsoever. Also, open carry is not walking around waving and pointing the gun at things, it's having the gun holstered on the side.

[@penginator89]

This is the first PD to use police cruisers jn the 1890s

[@exceptionallife4768]

Bang bang pow pow …. Rap music got your kids now

[@Scorch1028]

Bang! Bang! Pop! Pop! It's all Hip Hop!

[@israeliqueen153]

he said it's fake and that he just came from a funeral. as another person stated, the boy possibly used it as a deterrent to a possible robbery.

[@IbukiMiodaa24]

@@israeliqueen153 yeah you're 100% a democrat

[@martinbramah2224]

@@DeweySmithTattoos2 - But what if my education is restricted to fox news and trump rallies??

[@danr8502]

So you don't have the right to bear arms..

[@dylanryanmoore]

Bro was pointing it at houses.

[@LionelLordOfTheThundercats]

@@dylanryanmoore The cop never saw him do that. The police can't shot you because someone else said you committed a crime.

[@sebastianpoe3934]

​@@LionelLordOfTheThundercats You're a fucking moron. He didn't shoot him because someone said he did something. He shot him in the hand because he was holding a gun and pointing it in his direction. Probably bringing it up towards him. Making sudden movements. Doing all of which is crazy stupid and you'd have to be crazy to do so.

[@bigmike6123]

@@LionelLordOfTheThundercats ....and that's what we have here!! Plus the fact that cops are supposedly trained to shoot ""center mass"" a.k.a. the heart NOT the hand!!!

[@ilikemilk6080]

He was under 18… he can’t even legally own one

[@IbukiMiodaa24]

Thank god we left Akron when we did... that town is such a dump

[@successfultroll7174]

Even if it was real, Ohio is an open carry state and does not subject you to immediate public execution for merely having a gun.

[@IbukiMiodaa24]

Akron is one of the most liberal cities in Ohio that explains why crime there is so bad

[@MGMan37]

The kid pointed it at the officer, you can barely see it in the corner of the video if you play it at 0.25x speed

[@MGMan37]

This video shows it better kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6SQaJppnp6BkMU

[@Cakebattered]

@@MGMan37 No, the cop asked the teen to show him his hands, and the kid complied. The gun was never pointed at the officer, but was only revealed at the command of the officer. The video does not show a gun pointed at the cop.

[@MGMan37]

@@Cakebattered Watch the video dude. It's clear as day he points it towards the officer in the clip I linked. "Revealing it to the officer" is an insane way to describe "extending your arm towards the officer while gripping the toy gun"

[@brandonmizulski9087]

Riff raff at its finest

[@Factgiver2024]

FAFO

[@tommissouri4871]

While carrying a realistic toy gun is a dumb idea, it isn't a capital crime that deserves the death penalty. This video has already been doctored (did you hear the shot?) because it shows the officer in a bad light. He fires before he has his target in the sights. The "oh s" comment barely heard notes he wasn't expecting the shot himself. This is a negligent discharge. If the bullet hadn't hit the kid's wrist, where would it have hit? A residential house. A 9mm hardball FMJ round will often penetrate the exterior wall of these typical wood framed houses and still be dangerous inside the house. Passing through the kid's wrist didn't slow it a lot. What did it hit still? Another indication of the negligent discharge is he hit the wrist. No one shooting at a subject is shooting for the wrist. That is TV - Hollywood theatrics, not real life. This indicates he fired before intended. I video most of my range time, as being a public range, I can't go check after each shot, and so the video shows me later where they were going and when. The noise of a shot that close to the camera is loud enough there is no mistaking it. Yet you don't hear it in this video. The kid isn't the brightest, carrying the gun in his hand in the open, and his comments that he had it "to be safe" meant he intended on brandishing it to protect himself, but neither of those is a crime worth being shot and possibly killed by an officer over. The officer needs retraining on gun safety. The officer needs retraining in tactical use of the weapon. The officer needs to be on desk duty until a psyche eval if he is even capable of being on the street. His reaction to fire first indications he is operating in fear, and is a danger to those around him.

[@mongoosevsgt]

He fires once he sees the gun in the suspect's hand. LOL Umm if you hold a gun in your hand and make the slightest move a cop has every right to shoot. Now if this was a real gun then what? I guess the black teen could claim, "I wasn't going to shoot it i was just pointing it at people becuz..."

[@tommissouri4871]

@@mongoosevsgt - 1. No one saw him point the gun at people. 2. Cops do not have the right to shoot anyone except to defend life or prevent injury. Maybe you should read this. It is for Shaker Heights, but odds are it is similar to the policy in Akron. www.shakerheightsoh.gov/716/Response-to-Threats-Policy

[@dylanryanmoore]

​@@tommissouri4871 Did we watch the same video? The witness called he was pointing it at houses pretending to shoot. You know houses which ppl live in?

[@tommissouri4871]

@@dylanryanmoore - A friend and I were working on his Corvette in the basement of a butcher shop about a block from his parents' home. We needed a grease, so he ran home, got his grease gun, and ran back. About ten minutes later, we had a cop in the basement checking us because someone called saying they saw a guy running down the alley with a machine gun. People call with lots of stories that are not always accurate. The woman who called at 7:04 pm was a typical chicken who was hiding far away and saw the kid in the distance. Often, since police don't respond, the descriptions are embellished. Cops won't come for a suspicious guy, but they will for a guy waving a gun around. They do that because first they know no one can prove they didn't see that and second as it will actually get a cop to come.

[@dylanryanmoore]

@@tommissouri4871 Guess what when the cop pulled up the kid had the gun replica out and pointed it at the cop. The lady who called obviously saw him with it out which is brandishing it and illegal in this case.

[@danielbawden1322]

Learn a lesson! that sucks!

[@AR15fan]

He was shot in the wrist but the cop placed the tourniquet above the elbow. These cops are incompetent at rendering 1st aid.

[@joebrown6141]

Are you literally retarded?

[@aravind787]

He was not sure where exactly the kid was hit, that's probably the reason why they went for the elbow.

[@AR15fan]

He could have found out. It's not that hard to do.

[@joshuabuell2097]

Cop got fired for shooting a kid who pointed a fake gun at the police in an unsafe neigjborhood. What the fuck

[@realalbertan]

Fired for past misconduct and reinstated. Likely getting the final boot now. He rolled up with no regard for his own safety.

[@2kscientist620]

He shot him soon as he got out of car

[@Pubgcata307]

Ofc he shot as soon as he got out of the car, if you see a gun are you going to shoot first or ask “is that a real gun” ?

[@LionelLordOfTheThundercats]

@@Pubgcata307 Guns aren't illegal to own, are you suggesting that police should shoot everyone that has a gun?

[@BudinVegas]

GET REAL, this teen is a stupid teen. Or just thinks he can get away with anything.

[@GeorgeJansen]

We're on patrol live in Cleveland

[@HellsHitman]

Another far left brain surgeon

[@Obamas_Nipple]

or as i like to call them, genetic communists

[@flattailbob]

Why do you have to try to interject your political beliefs? This is about a kid that did a stupid thing and paid for it. And a cop who's actions are going to be unjustly and unfairly questioned. Plus some ambulance chasing lawyer is going to sue the city and win a staggering amount of money for the idiot kid being shot. Not everything is about political beliefs.

[@Obamas_Nipple]

@@flattailbob everything you listed is only possible because of leftist politicians and policies

[@theeater1756]

@@flattailbob Yes it is. Because without far left agitators there wouldn't be any questions about this. The cop wouldn't be charged and the kid would. But now there's the possibility of charging the cop, giving the kid millions and having riots. For no other reason that POLITICS. Wake the **** up!!!

[@jennhunt-xo8nr]

If he was white it would have been his fault. Black people are always innocent these days 🤦‍♀️

[@brandybryant5896]

She said a guy. She shoulda said a Kid

[@melaninmone7316]

She ain’t see nothing she was just afraid like yall always is give us are land back and go back to them cold as mountains 😂

[@cjaimez5895]

The cop had no business jumping out and shooting like that, y'all tripping if ya thinking otherwise.

[@dreyddog19]

Well that was dumb of him. Black or white, fake or real, you don't care a gun outside in public waving it around. I also think Kyle Rittenhouse should have been charged with something. Being in the location and having a firearm was inciting violence to happen.

[@sebastianpoe3934]

Mmmmm having a gun for protection is not inciting violence. Which is what he was there doing. He was there protecting someone's property. I think they should of had pepper spray personally but. I'd be more willing to not vandalize a building with armed people.

[@emilioguerra2144]

Looks like the officer accidentally fired his gun.

[@skydoggeatapeach]

Not so fucking funny now

[@tdadp]

I’m sorry this kid had a toy gun that didn’t have an orange cap on it and pointing it at houses of course the cops gonna treat this as it’s a real gun And you have it in your hand what do you think the cop going to do .

[@ayeshiajackson7364]

I don't care WHAT anyone say! This boy is 17 years old. Old enough to immediately start saying his accomplishments. Old enough to know what happened to Trayvon Martin!! His parents should be ASHAMED!!! Now he should be charged for inciting panic or something. This is infuriating! Then the mamas want to get on tv and cry!!! Foh!

[@nealjones84]

He is 15 years old karen

[@2kscientist620]

He could of died

[@PDM-95]

Poor aim

[@arkalonalan]

Live and learn kid

[@antiafrosvengalis]

Either that cop was so scared that he shot out of fear or didn't realize how close he was to pulling the trigger so quickly. However, the cop didn't actually see the gun so I don't get why he actually fired the weapon.

[@McCracken216]

April Fools Day, how fitting. I'm guessing he's not too bright the other 364 days of the year, either.

[@ohioguy215]

It's Leap Year so make that "365 days".

[@Don-mi6zl]

Cops are generally very unintelligent. They are the only profession where case law makes discrimination against those with above average intelligence legal.

[@joerockt]

I mean the kid shouldn't have been waving around a fake gun, but its pretty obvious to me that when the cop pulled his gun he accidentally discharged, thus the "oh shit".

[@dr.horror9046]

Retitle the video “officer suspect shot teen” not “teen suspect shot by officer”.

[@JoshFiver]

Doesn’t make sense, he’s coming back from a funeral for his cousin, so his idea of wanting to ‘be safe’ is getting a toy gun, and waving it around to the point that it triggers people to call police? Not exactly “straight A” behavior

[@JustinSkelton-gj8yl]

rest in peace

[@brandonleeiacocca6640]

Happy April's Fool! But seriously....waving a fun gun around is not a good prank

[@AxeWhyz]

Should seem very obvious to everyone, when the officer got out of his vehicle drawing his duty weapon it discharged from his movements, maybe his hand hit the door or window and his startled verbal’s of, "Oh Shit! Shit!" directly after discharge of the weapon and said, "fu**" as he cuffed him. Careless use of a weapon and injury to a minor. (Kid got lucky it just winged him)

[@AxeWhyz]

try again... who removed my comment? cheap service...

[@sebastianpoe3934]

What? His gun never hit anything. And he wouldn't begin to draw his weapon for no reason. Also he said shit and was startled because he thought someone just drew a gun on him. Tf you smoking

[@toms7280]

Strange how Ohio allows for real guns to be openly carried around but not toys, especially if the toy is aimed at an inanimate object like a house.🤔

[@ohioguy215]

Well Tommy ... kids don't "open carry". And, believe it or not, people actually live in "inanimate objects like a house".

[@joebrown6141]

You're a moron wrapped in an idiot sandwich, what is inside houses Einstein?

[@somethingtrulyhorrifying]

How exactly do you expect anyone to discern whether or not it's a toy gun when it looks like exactly like a gun, you cutie pie you