So, the 13 year old boy was shot 7 times by one cop

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83. Even the cops do not claim he aimed the gun at them.

They hollered "drop the gun" a couple times. The kid started to turn, and one cop emptied his gun into him. I'm sure the kid died wondering what was going on and why.

Where do you, and all those like you, get the idea that everybody is a well indoctrinated Marine, trained to immediately react to a legal order? The human beings I encounter on a daily basis react to someone shouting out an order with, "huh, what?"** It's a pretty good bet this kid never had a day of boot camp in his life. Expecting him to react like a well drilled Marine is pretty flippin' unreasonable.

This is one of the reasons the military has to first tear you down before building you into what they want. You have to be broken of that tendency people have to react to orders with a question.




**Worst advice commonly given to people entering the service, "when they say, 'jump', you ask, 'how high'". That is, in fact, exactly what happened here. Cops shouted at the kid, kid turned probably to ask them something, or argue with them if he understood the order, and that one finger itchy cretin murdered him. He should have jumped***, not asked questions.



***Best advice for people entering service is that there is no correct height. No matter how high you jump, it will be wrong. But "how high" does have a correct answer. The correct answer is, "that was an order, not a question."