Update: According to Lane County Jail records, the counter-protester who was arrested has been identified as Jonathan James Wisbey. Wisbey, age 51, was charged with 1st Degree Menacing, 2nd Degree …
OK…? And cops shoot black teenagers for holding cans of Arizona Iced Tea, claiming they thought it was a firearm.
This dude had a literal replica of a firearm. He brandished it like a firearm, and threatened peaceful protestors. Whether or not the gun was real isn’t super relevant at this point.
I googled “splatter ball gun” and everything looked like a toy. This looked either like a real firearm, a replica or a replica airsoft gun. Either way, it looks real without a close inspection.
Any bystander would have been justified in lighting that dude up the second that gun was visible. For example, if the camera was a gun it’d be privileged self defense and defense of others.
OK…? And cops shoot black teenagers for holding cans of Arizona Iced Tea, claiming they thought it was a firearm.
This dude had a literal replica of a firearm. He brandished it like a firearm, and threatened peaceful protestors. Whether or not the gun was real isn’t super relevant at this point.
UK police just rammed a child on a bike with their car and arrested him for having a blue plastic water pistol
Poor kiddo. That had to have been traumatic.
I googled “splatter ball gun” and everything looked like a toy. This looked either like a real firearm, a replica or a replica airsoft gun. Either way, it looks real without a close inspection.
Any bystander would have been justified in lighting that dude up the second that gun was visible. For example, if the camera was a gun it’d be privileged self defense and defense of others.