H/T to Wirecutter for the link to this story.
The FBI is investigating of the fatal shooting of 13-year-old Andy Lopez by a sheriff’s deputy in Northern California after it emerged that police took no more than 10 seconds to open fire on Lopez after seeing him with a toy pellet gun.
Geoffrey Alpert, a professor of criminology at the University of South Carolina, said officers are typically justified in the use of deadly force when they sincerely believe lives are at stake.
If the teen was raising the barrel of the gun toward officers, they had little choice about firing, Alpert said.
The cops claim Lopez had his back to them so they didn't realize that he was just 13 years old Read more HERE
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