A video showing a Clayton County, Georgia, police officer holding a firearm at a group of teenagers, and neighbors loudly defending them has spurred anger at how the youths were treated and demands that the officer be disciplined.
When police arrived the responding officer, believing that one of the teens had a gun pulled his own service weapon and pointed it at them, according to his police report.
The officer said in the report that he told the teens to remain focused on him “because the crowd was yelling in the background.”
Another police car arrives at the scene and a second officer begins to pat all of the teens down and the first policeman holstered his weapon.
But the police report said that surveillance video showed the teens playing with a BB gun that “closely resembled a live semi-automatic pistol,” according to a Clayton County Police statement.