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The shooting of a 14-year-old boy in Baltimore for allegedly running away from cops is getting plenty of side eyes. Reportedly officers mistook Dedric Colvin’s BB gun for the real thing, and shot the kid as they gave chase. 

Reports the Baltimore Sun:

A Baltimore police detective shot a boy in East Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon who he wrongly believed was carrying a semiautomatic pistol, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said.

The boy suffered what police called non-life-threatening injuries to a “lower extremity,” Davis said. The weapon turned out to be spring-air-powered BB gun — not a real firearm.

The boy’s mother identified him as 14-year-old Dedric Colvin, an eighth-grader at City Springs Middle School. Volanda Young said her son was shot once in the shoulder and once in the leg.

The incident came on the day city officials marked the one-year anniversary of the Freddie Gray riots.

Since cops have managed to not earn the trust of the people they’ve been tasked to serve and protect, the details they proviced about the incident aren’t passing the sniff test.

Reportedly two plain clothes detectives identified themselves as officers before Colvin took off running.

It’s a safe bet to say he couldn’t tell them apart from real cops the same way they couldn’t tell it wasn’t a real gun? Also, what’s the protocol for shooting someone as they are running away.

We gotta hear both sides.

Colvin was taken to John Hopkins Hospital and fortunately his injuries are not life threatening.

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