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Police: Teen with realistic-looking BB gun arrested at Dominican festival on City Hall Plaza

Boston Police report arresting a 14-year-old they say brought a loaded BB gun with him to the Dominican festival on City Hall Plaza yesterday afternoon.

Police say people at the festival contacted officers when they saw the kid take the gun out of his backpack and slide it into his waistband:

Officers performed a pat frisk and immediately felt a firearm in the waistband of his pants. At this time, the suspect abruptly pulled away from the officers and began to yell and swear at them. The suspect was placed in custody after a brief struggle at which time the officers recovered what was later determined to be a loaded Luger .177 caliber BB Pistol. As the suspect was being led away, he screamed at the officers “I got a real gun, I’m gonna (expletive) shoot all of you!”

The teen, not named because of his age, was charged with being delinquent for possession of a replica firearm, making threats and disturbing the peace.

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Ps- I hope this kid gets an appropriate punishnent for the B-B gun, plus extra for being an a- hole.

That is, assuming he's found guilty...

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In other cities the kid would have been shot by the police at first sight of something resembling a gun. But BPD is smart and didn't shoot first.

Had the kid been shot it could have resulted in social unrest and hostility toward the police. But instead, everyone can just see how stupid the kid is.

It's worth noting some people on this forum chastise the BPD for not being more inclined to shoot at the sight of a possible gun. That criticism is misplaced, to say the least.

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There are lots of cases of police in other cities acting w/appropriate force and "disarming" kids like this, as well as adults with actual weapons....and those just don't make national news.

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One dead kid is all it takes to create outrage. It's pretty meaningless to say that you didn't use excessive force 100 times if the police make the mistake on the 101st time.

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When a cop says halt you halt. When a cop says halt or I'll shoot you halt faster.
If this nit wit pointed this replica at a cop they would of been justified in killing him. Sad but true.
The real crime would of been the bias media storm against the cops that we would of had to endore.

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Stupid

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Um, using a fake gun is supposed to result in the same charges as if a real one is used. So why is the little Nobel laureate not facing more charges? The prosecutor seems to be going easy on him.

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Yes, you can be charged with assault with a dangerous weapon even if you don't actually have a dangerous weapon, if your victim thinks you do. So hold up a store with your hand in your pocket and a couple fingers poking into the fabric so it looks like you have a gun? Assault with a dangerous weapon.

But in this case, at least according to the police account, he didn't threaten anyone with the gun - he got caught because some people saw him sticking it in his waistband, not because he pointed it at somebody, so there wasn't a victim per se.

And, technically, prosecutors hadn't done anything, at least as of the writing of the BPD account - police bring the initial charges and then prosecutors get involved. What a person is charged with in court isn't always the same as what the police initially charged him with.

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and not just because the gun isn't pink.

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He'll shoot his eye out.

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Why to the people who bring guns to these events think it's a good idea?

People bring guns to these events every year, everybody knows it, and the police are waiting for the gun people to reveal themselves.

How stupid do you have to be? Oh, 14 years old.

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Well, how stupid do you have to be to threaten police officers with "I have a real gun and I'll shoot you" WHILE in custody?

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