WATCH: Viral drone footage captures stand-off between small boys and police
A viral video shows two young boys in New Mexico with a loaded gun in a stand-off with the police.
FILE: Two children in New Mexico were fighting over a loaded gun. Picture: @ PoliceActivity/youtube screenshot
CapeTalk’s Clarence Ford speaks with Barbara Friedman about this and other stories trending online.
Listen below:
Trigger warning for sensitive viewers.
An intense video shows two young boys, aged seven and nine, passing a loaded handgun between one another.
“They were passing it back and forth, fighting over it.”
- Barbara Friedman
The police and the mother of the children tried to de-escalate the situation, but the children refused to put down the gun.
This led to the police shooting a non-lethal round of fire at the house and the ground around the boys.
Following this, an officer walks up to them, snatches the gun away and grabs the children.
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