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Police in California Fatally Shoot 15-Year-Old Black Teenager with Autism
In California, a 15-year-old Black teenager with autism was shot dead Saturday at his home by a sheriff’s deputy. The teenager, Ryan Gainer, was reportedly holding a gardening tool when he was fatally shot by a deputy from San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Officers had come to his home after receiving reports of a domestic incident. Attorney DeWitt Lacy said, “There are great questions as to whether it was appropriate to use deadly force against a 15-year-old autistic kid who was having an episode. We need to see the video and the moment of the shooting … but it doesn’t seem like anyone was in imminent danger of death or great bodily injury.”
yeah right no one was danger but this crazy kid was having an episode with tool in his hand .come on now.
this whole thing rides on the parents. cops had to do what they had to do;. they do not know he is autistic. they just know some crazy person is going at them with tool that is also a weapon to them. his parents failed him not the cops.