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I think what they're trying to get at is that if you see a gun, you assume it's real until proven otherwise.
Should police be shooting people just for having a gun in a country where we have a legal right to bear arms? No, of course not. But saying that the cop should have immediately known it was fake is a BS argument. They have no way to know that and when in doubt, it is always a real loaded firearm. Firearm safety 101 is literally to always assume every gun is loaded and live until proven otherwise.
If you're going to argue at least use reasonable arguments that don't make all of us in the ACAB crowd look dumb. Like the fact that this cop was known to have a drinking problem and a history of domestic violence which should have disqualified him from being a cop. Plus police shouldn't be shooting people for meerly posessing a weapon in a country where that is a legally protected right. Plus the kid was nowhere near the gun when the cop shot him.
What unreasonable arguments are you referring to? I didn't make any arguments, I just asserted that the cop is a scumbag (for reasons you highlight) and said that the other user should not be bending over backwards to defend the cop.
Like you say, he acted stupidly and was not justified in firing on the kid. Trying to put blame on the kid is an attempt to defend the cop. We would not be tolerant of the same user pointing to a woman's outfit in a thread about rape.
The person you were responding to was responding to this comment.
I didn't realize you weren't the one who posted that comment so that's my bad.