Yeah sure that is what YOU now know in behind sight and then it looks rediculous. Police officers have shot people dead because they thought they had a weapon in their hand and it was a toy or something else.
And that somehow justifies the actions of those police? Simply because police have been trained to perceive EVERYTHING as a threat and they "thought" a cell phone or camera was a threat, then that justifies the use of lethal force?
No because Police officers encounter a lot of lethal threats and a lot of police officers are ending up dead before age 40. At the end of the day they also want to go home to the wife and children.
They are doing a job society wants them to do. Society has given them a tool (gun) to do their work. If they use their tool in an accident wrong decision that is not murder. If it was not an accident ofcourse it would be.
It is simple: don't pull a fake gun or something that might be interpreted like that against armed police officers or face the consequences. That is not only in the USA it is also here in Europe. Any sensible person will raise their arms in the sky , do as they are told and show they are NOT a threat. Mistakes happen and the best thing you can do is everything to avoid that they make a mistake.
Nope. Police who murder unarmed civilians SHOULD be charged with manslaughter - regardless of the circumstances.
It is not murder, if it was murder than the police officer should have known it was a fake gun or phone, and still pull the trigger, then it would be murder.
If (s)he has to make a call between life and death (perhaps his own) then the choice is simple and the instructions are also simple, don't take a chance.
So if a police officer makes a genuine mistake then it is not murder, it is a work related accident. The alternative is that police officers do not go on the street anymore or don't respond to armed incidents because they fear they end up in jail if they make a mistake. Crime will rule the streets, if that is what you want.
I am surprised that anyone on this forum is trying to argue that being ignorant of electronics justifies being afraid of electronics.
Who is saying that? Total new point besides the subject. It has nothing to do with electronics, it has to do with appearances, and fast judgments. It could as well have been a wooden gun that he wanted to show to his crafts teacher, it does not matter.
It is all about how it MIGHT look like to someone.
If something looks like shit, it might well be shit and even there is only a 1% chance that it is really shit and the teacher would have ignored it, then the whole school would have been in piles of shit.
But again arresting him was rediculous I agree totally, a short reprimand would have been enough IMO.
And let us not overlook the elephant in the room here - the ethnicity and gender of the child. Would a caucasian female who built an identical device have been treated the same?
Why not?
She might be, she should be. But say that you are right and this played a role, then to answer your question probably because there have been no reports or news about caucasian female children in training camps in the middle of a war shooting unarmed hostages through there heads with AK47's.