The American police killed a 13-year-old teenager for carrying a “toy gun”!
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency According to ABC News, the New York police announced that one of the officers of the state killed a 13-year-old teenager who was aiming at them with a “toy gun” He was shot dead!
Video footage circulating online today (Sunday) shows an upstate New York police officer arresting a 13-year-old boy in Chase knocks him down and then shoots him.
According to the police, this teenager was killed in the city of Utica. This happened after the officers had stopped two teenagers in connection with the case of an armed robbery. The police claimed that the appearance of these two teenagers, who are both 13 years old, matched the suspect of the robbery that happened in that area. The video of the camera installed on the police uniform shows that one of the officers requests a body search of the suspects, and at this moment one of them, named “Naya Emwai”, runs away.
In the following pictures, the fleeing suspect can be seen pointing a weapon at the police, and the police officer thinks it is a real weapon at first, and then It turns out that the suspect was carrying a real-looking handgun with a detachable magazine (Glock 17 Gen 5 handgun replica)!
Utica Police Chief Mark Williams said about the moment of the incident: During a physical fight with this teenager, one of the officers shot him in the chest, which due to the severity He died of his injuries in the hospital.
Michael Kerley, the police spokesman, said in an email about this weapon: The weapon that this teenager carried with him was a replica that looked like a Glock handgun. It was similar and had specific markings, detachable magazine and serial number. Of course, with all these similarities, it is only capable of shooting plastic bullets or pellets.