police in Georgia are investigating a police officer who allegedly pulled a
gun on a group of eleven-year-old african-american children
who were building a treehouse in their neighborhood
that the local TV station says that to
this kit Omari grant that he and his friends were behind his house
in their backyard private property constructing a tree for when their
neighbor called 911 with concerns about their safety
and and the caller said that she turned out to be the wife %uh the
next-door neighbor and they were falling hazards tripping hazard all types of
hazards
so number one was the concern for the children and the concern for the
environment
so of course the reverse the yeah I am bringing his urban
a grid their livers the thing that they Henry County police officers who showed
up did was that they pull their guns
yeah what is up with that I don't know it mean
looking the now the thing that we have to bear in mind if you're
a frequent your this show is that painfully this is not one other stories
with ended up coming down the kids and so it compared to those stories it seems
relatively positive
but I mean think back to Lake you when you were growing up
like I grew up in Bridgeport Connecticut its a not a very affluent area
and did I manage to get there my entire childhood without a gun ever being
pulled on me
I that I guess a privilege that that's reserved for people are growing up in
the modern day I suppose
apparently on yeah and there's no explanation and you know they're saying
they're investigating in if there's
if it's justified the accusation I'll deal with that but they don't lack
I don't I don't understand that the thought process of capsular goes to
police say
it's pretty obvious I mean it if if you're if you should have been
this should have been built into your whole training system that when you pull
a gun
well as I Rep to like your life yeah who think that a lot to a couple level your
kids are
threatening your life from where the Super Soaker up there something I mean
Daiki you have to really feel like you're about to die and they don't think
that the more they might that is a net
this is the last ditch effort for me that to quell the situation that is
I've lost control up you walk up or not done because that's the first thing you
do that
protocol and come out that we've come to is that ok
you know this garbage almost will forget there's like Bob Marley this last second
thing
but it's the first thing tomorrow and that was just gonna do you
I and so so the after after GI shouting at the children
you know and and they said foul language so after I think the kids
but the officer ordered the kids to get on the ground and tell the little boy
Omari at Pine is heartbreaking many said I was thinking that I don't want to be
shot today
so I listened to what they said now how does that
impact the kid you know how I can impact I mean any kid
on their expectations paramus from police officers
and you know it sorted it that and I hate to say it you know because I i'm
sure that that the police officers when they're at home there there maybe
they're nice people but but you don't pull a gun on eleven-year-old there's
just no reason for that there can't be any less that carrie has got himself
which
never really happens so I can serve our society talk about
you know gaming culture and to areas kids grew up in and they have no chance
in the end up in these
violent neighborhoods in shootout flies things happen you know that gaming and I
believe
I'm not gonna the maybe this is didn't say it is a male talk to someone about
it
but the police or another game in these neighborhoods and
any neighborhood and see what you I'm I've been stared down by police
as the there was a couple dudes in a car look at me like
what to do on the street it there bears that attitude is that cinema and you
look back go
you know they have guns so I mean that there's a there's a sense of discomfort
when you see these guys
mer just another entity its in the neighborhood that
trying to gain control through intimidation in murder so
wouldn't when kids at 11 see this is on the ground 111 you have to sit on the
ground I think
am I gonna get shot today but our society would lead you to believe that
these gang members go around wrapping up eleven-year-old
force them into the games and piss them off a scare them
and they may end up being by let members of society this is one other aspect of
our site that make some folks by let members of society and they wonder why
people don't trust the police
on why when a crime goes down amis in these neighborhoods when they say
north to talk to us because they don't trust you because they're eleven years
old I'm so i seven years old
they've been getting talk they've been told improved to
that they shouldn't trust you cuz if I tell you something when you gonna do to
me
you never give me reason to trust you any other time have you guys should be
my back
I have my doubts about how well they'll be able to actually
on investigate this particular thing the hold the Henry County Police Department
spokesperson
said that the department is that began this investigation
after they received the complaint from the kids mother
and she filed a complaint about excessive use of force which I think
this would definitely qualify under
and that spokesperson surgeon Joey Smith said
quote if it was justified if it was justified
did you get that part it was justified then we'll deal with it if it wasn't
will address it as well as if there is even a question
yeah about whether it was justified to pull the gun to pull the gun
on national political yeah look up like
would stereotypically growing up you think about like
what you hear about is the respectable members a society like you know you got
your like teachers your doctors your cops or something like that and
and I want to get back to that being the case for you trust these people
a fortune you can't right now and it doesn't mean that they're not doing
great things all the time
make-ups 99 plan a time can be great but the one person at the time that they're
not great
they have guns and so it is a life or death thing when
when they execute the homeless in Albuquerque or something like that at
the gun down
a drunk student outside of austin is it a couple weeks ago or when they pull a
gun on a kid in Georgia
like would be the abuses matter and then that's why we cover it doesn't mean that
we don't respect cops they did the right thing
but it does mean that you have to watch out for them when they do the wrong
thing