It's happening lower down the chain now, there was one instance where even a fricking kindergartener was picked up because they dared to make the hand signal of a gun. Who or what child has never played cops and robbers? When we were kids we had those toy guns that you cocked and shot and they made "gun-like" sounds and the whole neighborhood ran around with them on the school's playground because it was at the end of the road, I can't imagine what they would do today if they saw that.
It's happening lower down the chain now, there was one instance where even a fricking kindergartener was picked up because they dared to make the hand signal of a gun. Who or what child has never played cops and robbers? When we were kids we had those toy guns that you cocked and shot and they made "gun-like" sounds and the whole neighborhood ran around with them on the school's playground because it was at the end of the road, I can't imagine what they would do today if they saw that.
There's no telling what cops will do when you're unarmed and under submission, let alone a kid playing.