What a shame, a 12 year-old who should've know better must drop the weapon immediately, thats what I did when I was 11. So 19 years ago, my brother and I went out in a school field to shoot crows flying over in July. School is out for summer, and walking back with my pump BB gun that looks like a shotgun, a cop whipped around driving by. He jumped out yelling "Drop the weapon!". Guess what I did, dropped that -blam!-ing BB gun with the box of BBs and raised my hands high. My brother did the same who was 9 at the time, and BBs went all the ground. The COP heard and saw the clanking noise of the BBs hitting the side walk going every direction, and knew that isn't a deadly firearm. He yelled, what are we doing with the gun, I responded shaking that we're shooting birds with our BB gun. I nearly pissed my self, but he walked behind us and picked the BB gun and told us to turn around. I don't know if he drew his weapon to this day, but I imagine he did as my old neighborhood had, well still has high gang activity. He let me and my brother go home, which was just around the corner, and not to do that again as it's hard to tell real weapons from fake one, at that time it was the early 90s. What's my point, we'll I didn't have the internet, informative school programs, or grand parents who knew about those problems. I knew that when a cop says to drop something, you stick you hands high up in the air. This article is telling me he didn't know better or what to do, Im calling BS, he knew exactly what to do. Note: When I got home and told my grandparents about what happened, my grandfather spanked the shit out of me for walking around the neighborhood with a weapon. That's true education, and that is what that Boy needed, and I bet he would still be alive today.