Here is another POS excuse for what they did. I hope they think real hard about retiring early and finding another line of work, gun happy morons, shoot first,   it is a 15yr. old.

David A. Dusenbury, a retired deputy police chief in Long Beach, Calif., who now consults on police tactics, said the officers were probably justified.

If the boy were raising the gun as if to fire at someone, "then it's unfortunate, but the officer certainly would have the right under the law to use deadly force."

The school was closed Thursday, but students were able to attend classes at a new elementary school that isn't being used.