Wisconsin police kill student who came to middle school with a gun
Wisconsin police kill student who came to middle school with a gun
Wisconsin police kill student who came to middle school with a gun
Authorities described the student as a juvenile male but did not provide further identification or specifics pending an investigation
Wisconsin police shot and killed a student who officials say came to a local middle school with a gun. The student never got into the school, but as a precaution the entire district was put on a lockdown late Wednesday morning.
Students have since been reunited with their parents, some of whom waited up to five hours for their children to be dropped at a bus storage center in Mount Horeb, a village about 20 miles south-west of Madison, the state capital, according to WMTV 15 news.
No other students or staff were injured in the shooting, Josh Kaul, Wisconsin’s attorney general, said during a Wednesday news conference.
The kid just had a gun and didn't shoot it or anything…? Was there no intent to do a "shooting"?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-fatally-shoot-student-wisconsin-middle-school-responding-report-rcna150308
Not a ton more detail, but it sounds like a kid has a visible gun that some students reported seeing. Then they tried to enter the school, but the school had a video doorbell/door buzzer type setup. There were five or so shots in quick succession that must've included officers.
Have to wait on more info, but it sounds like at worst they failed to deescalate. At best they showed up and the kid started shooting and they returned fire.
No innocent kids died, so that's a win in my book.
While it's good news not to have a fresh school shooting, how hard is it to detain a middle schooler without murdering them...?
So all he did was illegally have a fire arm and he was executed for it and that's a win in your book? Sick fuck
Something else happened, kids bring guns to schools all the time and don't get caught if they don't flash them around. It's gotten to the point where some schools have metal detectors at the entrances.
Shortly after Columbine, my school banned backpacks and if you brought a lunch box to school, they would want to search it.
That's a wild thing to say
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We need more information. The fact that the details about the victim are currently lacking is a bit of a red flag here. There is a marked difference between "police observed a 17 year old approaching the middle school with an automatic weapon and several bandoliers of ammunition" and "an 11 year old tried to sneak a handgun into the building in his backpack." Neither of those children need to be let anywhere near the school, but one of those situations you might be able to deescalate--maybe both. More pertinent to the subject at hand, if the case were the former, I would expect the police to be extremely forthcoming about it. The fact that those kinds of details are, to my understanding, yet to be revealed leads me to suspect that the cops want some time to get their story straight first.
It's always a good thing when a school shooting doesn't happen, but that doesn't change the sad reality that police in the United States are not to be trusted. This is still a story about a child killed by police, and that deserves scrutiny. Hopefully the action was well justified, but I think anyone would be forgiven for exercising skepticism given the dearth of details about what happened.
How do you know he was a bad guy with a gun? What if he was a good kid with a gun?
If you have a gun are you a bad person?
This article has no details at all.
So we're just going to start shooting everyone in the US who has a gun?
So you'd prefer to be put in prison now, rather than having society wait for you to actually commit a crime?
Context is very important.
If the kid had no intention of using it and didn't brandish it at the police then shooting him doesn't seem like the correct course of action.
If the police told them to drop it and they refused it is a different story.
The point is we don't know so it's impossible to say whether it was justified.