When they left Wild West City amusement park in New Jersey, 12-year-old Aleksey Derevyankin sat in the family's gray Ford Focus, a black cowboy hat on his head, a gold "Deputy Marshal" star with him, pretending to shoot a toy gun — a Western-style revolver with a bright orange tip.
A passing motorist saw the Focus and reported it to police as a road-rage incident with someone in the backseat pointing a gun. Police ran the license plate, which came back to Keahon's Oak Street home.
I'm amazed we survived The Fifties. I know this would sure scare the hell out of me:
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It was New Jersey; what can you say...?
ReplyDeleteMore cowardly cops. You would think all those steroids they take would put some spine in them, not just muscle over the jello frame, wouldn't you?
ReplyDeleteOh come now. This is serious. Hoplophobia is a debilitating mental illness that effects many people worldwide. The passing driver is obviously someone who slipped through the cracks, and really should be institutionalized and heavily medicated.
ReplyDeleteNo really.
Seems to me they should have used dynamic entry techniques - maybe they should have even opened fire through the door when they saw him with the bathrobe.
ReplyDeleteI mean, they knew someone had a gun-like object, or at least a history with gun-like objects. And since their safety comes first it seems to me they took some awfully big risks by not shooting first.
Hell, at the very least, they could have tazed the guy, right?
LMAO! Yeah, that guy should have gotten a good tazering.
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