Question about 13yr old Adam Toledo Shooting, re: justification for a shooting, and the photo we see with him hands up facing police?

Leftist trolls are easily deceived by new media outlets editing the video to misrepresent the situation.

The cop screamed "Drop the f*cking gun, turn around with your hands up". 

Adam Toledo dropped the gun, turned around, and put his hands up.

https://youtu.be/ylY31U7-l9s

If it was you would you be willing to be shot first by an individual that is willing to kill you? He dropped the gun because he was out of bullets if he had more rounds he would have shot you.

I agree with almost all of what you are saying first of all. Wholeheartedly. In fact when you look at the cop’s own body cam stills you can see that shot where the kid has his hands up and he’s illuminated by a blindingly bright flashlight attached to the cop’s gun. He’s lit up so well that it’s so obvious he has absolutely nothing in his hands. That much is clear.

 So many people on here are always blaming civilians who get shot by cops because they didn’t “comply”. Here is a situation where this child dud everything he was supposed to do....stopped fleeing as he was told, put up his hands as he was told....and he STILL got shot in the chest and killed. 

And if he had kept running who’s to say he wouldn’t have been shot in the back? And possibly been killed that way? I’m sure it would’ve been a very likely scenario. Regardless, he did as he was told. Every step of the way.

I wish other people would have the same insights and observations into this type of an issue that you have.But I was wondering where you got the information that this 13-year-old was a “criminal” and was involved in a “shooting”? 

So far I have heard no reports that this child or even his companion had any criminal record. From what I understand, the neighborhood where this occurred has an audio monitoring system where the sound of gunshots can be detected 24/7, recorded and the location of the shots immediately relayed to the police.  

Apparently that is what happened in this situation, that eight gun shots were picked up by this monitoring system and a police officer or officers was/were immediately dispatched to the location and arrived within two minutes apparently.So again, there’s no evidence thus far that the 13 y/o child had a criminal record. In fact, they are saying that he had wanted to become a cop when he got older. 

For all we know it might just have been a situation where this child was being influenced by this older 21 y/o who had gotten the gun somewhere, maybe a parent left it lying around at home (?) and maybe they were just fooling around and shooting it because they had nothing better to do with that particular moment on that particular  morning. Maybe they just wanted to make some noise like kids will do when they are bored and decide to light off fireworks for example. Who knows?

Just admit it. You support the police shooting people that in the final analysis did not deserve to be shot because the police are scared and pooping in their pants doing their jobs.  Just admit it and we can move on, for this is my entire point. I was scared because the guy ran, I was scared because the guy moved suddenly, I was scared because the guy was holding a knife 20 yards away from me...I was scared because the guy sneezed.  Its all sounds like cowardly sniveling to me.

It's amusing that you sit there on your mom's couch in the basement leisurely making decisions that the cop had less than 1 second to make.

It was dark.  The kid was carrying a gun.  And when the kid stopped to turn around, his hands weren't full up in the air, as you pretend they are.  Were you aware that having an arm level to the ground is also a firing position?

For all the people allegedly concerned about this kid, why weren't they concerned that a 13 year old was running around committing crimes at 2:30 am on a school night?  Where were the parents then? Where was his "concerned" family then?

That picture was a still taken from a video. In real time the moment of the shooting happened very fast. The gun was found there on the ground, and the kid had gunshot residue on his hands. He used that gun for something, and the cops claim he shot at them.  That boy was probably a thug in training. I suppose you'd be ok with him using his gun to kill some innocent for his initiation into his gang to go on with his criminal life. Remember. it was a 14 year old the murdered a young female college student in a robbery last year and it was another 14 year old that murdered the pizza delivery and then stole his money and his car. The only difference between old thugs and young thugs is time and experience.

The little kid's parents/guardians will hopefully be held responsible for allowing him to be out..... with a firearm.... at 2:30 in the freaking morning.  Those parents/guardians got the kid killed.... not the cop.

why is a kid running down an alley with a gun at 2:30 in the morning

the problem isn’t the police

he ditched the gun behind the fence, turned around and raised his hands in the same action, what the cop saw was a gun in the hand that then disappeared behind his body as he turned towards him and the hand that had the gun raising as he turned, the cop didn't see him chuck the gun behind the fence, the cop was completely justified in his actions, it's too bad the kid felt like ditching the gun would change anything, instead of just dropping it, and it's too bad that he decided to turn around to put his hands up instead of just stopping and putting them up, it's a series of unfortunate events, but the cop made a split second decision, and his decision was based on defense not malice, I don't know why you idiots think a cop needs to wait to be shot before shooting