16 Year Old Gunned Down by A Police Sniper

"They brought an army to take out a 16-year-old boy. To kill a 16-year-old boy," said Nick Messina, the boy's dad, in an exclusive interview with CBS Atlanta.

Once again the heavy hand and dilapidated mindset of today's militarized police led to another innocent life being taken by the hands of so called "law enforcement".  Too many times do we hear of incidences likes this, where a different approach very easily could of changed the outcome.
“It was no outcome we would ever hope for,” Sheriff Roger Garrison said in May to the Cherokee Tribune. “Our negotiators worked feverishly, to the very, very best of their abilities to establish rapport with Andrew and it’s just a very tragic situation. There are no winners.”

'It just happened so fast, and then he went upstairs. He had the gun in his hand, and he had bullets in the other hand," Lisa Messina (Andrew's mother) said in the CBS interview.

Police cut the telephone line and sent negotiators into the house. On a recording made by Andrew, he can be heard telling the negotiators that he's angry and wants to speak to his father, according to an account in the Daily News. Soon after, a sniper with a large rifle entered the home. Minutes later, a loud blast was heard and Andrew was dead.

How many times have we heard of standoffs that last hours only to be resolved with no one dead? I know personally I have heard of quite a few.

The suspect is usually apprehended and dealt with from there. Why was this not the case here? Why were non-lethal means of putting an end to this situation not explored? This could not have been the officers’ only recourse.

Just some ideas that pop to mind are: rubber bullets, beanbag rounds, tear gas, flash/stun/concussion grenades, or better yet, just let his own father speak to him.

Andrew's Facebook Memorial Page

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