12-year-old boy shot by Cleveland police has died

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72. At the time of the incident, the "how" or "where" the boy procured the gun is irrelevant.

The only issue is that he had what to any reasonable person looked to be an actual firearm, disobeyed basic police orders to put his hands up, and then actually reached for the weapon. The police were also at the playground because of a 911 call about someone waving a gun around.

If the gun was real, the officer and other innocent bystander children and adults would be in immediate grave danger. It's certainly not unheard of for 12 year olds to cause lethal havoc. Simply watch the news in Chicago.

Once the police were called, given the poor choices made by the boy, I don't see how this could of ended up differently. The situation might have been avoided, but that would likely have required better parenting and supervision well before the day in questions and not an insignificant amount of luck.