11-12-2013, 03:08 PM
Thanks, Adub.
I grabbed the pic from an article in USA Today. The caption below the pic:
Santa Rosa Police Lt. Lance Badger displayed an AK-47 assault rifle, left, next to a replica airsoft pellet gun carried by Andy Lopez, 13, when he was shot and killed by a Sonoma County Sheriff's deputy Oct. 22, 2013.(Photo: John Burgess, The Press Democrat/EPA).
Pretty deceptive captioning.
Anyway, the pic in post #1059 is for sure the actual toy AK47 carried by Lopez - evidence photo released directly by the PD. I don't know much about guns - real or replicas - so the replicas in both photos look the same to me.
Lopez could have been carrying a really cheap one for sure. It's being said that the airsoft AK47 was one used by the kids in the neighborhood - Andy borrowed it from a friend.
LE isn't releasing the model and type details, so it's unclear if it was a replica that required an orange cap or the type that was produced/sold without it. The handgun toy that he was carrying did have an orange tip in tact, according to latest reports.
I see the Lopez family has filed suit against Sonoma County and Gelhaus - I understand they're being represented by the attorneys who successfully sued the LAPD officer for $24 million in a similar case back in 2010.
Some of the claims in the suit don't match what has been released by PD (like the claim that the deputy-in-training got out of the car and drew in tandem with Gelhaus).
I wish this shooting had been caught on tape.
Lawsuit story:
http://www.msnbc.com/martin-bashir/paren...le-lawsuit
I grabbed the pic from an article in USA Today. The caption below the pic:
Santa Rosa Police Lt. Lance Badger displayed an AK-47 assault rifle, left, next to a replica airsoft pellet gun carried by Andy Lopez, 13, when he was shot and killed by a Sonoma County Sheriff's deputy Oct. 22, 2013.(Photo: John Burgess, The Press Democrat/EPA).
Pretty deceptive captioning.
Anyway, the pic in post #1059 is for sure the actual toy AK47 carried by Lopez - evidence photo released directly by the PD. I don't know much about guns - real or replicas - so the replicas in both photos look the same to me.
Lopez could have been carrying a really cheap one for sure. It's being said that the airsoft AK47 was one used by the kids in the neighborhood - Andy borrowed it from a friend.
LE isn't releasing the model and type details, so it's unclear if it was a replica that required an orange cap or the type that was produced/sold without it. The handgun toy that he was carrying did have an orange tip in tact, according to latest reports.
I see the Lopez family has filed suit against Sonoma County and Gelhaus - I understand they're being represented by the attorneys who successfully sued the LAPD officer for $24 million in a similar case back in 2010.
Some of the claims in the suit don't match what has been released by PD (like the claim that the deputy-in-training got out of the car and drew in tandem with Gelhaus).
I wish this shooting had been caught on tape.
Lawsuit story:
http://www.msnbc.com/martin-bashir/paren...le-lawsuit