“…When officers saw the suspect walking away in the direction of the basketball courts, they ordered him onto the ground. It was then that they saw he had a BB gun with the red tip removed.
“I was kind of hoping he didn’t pull nothing out, just in case a police officer would’ve thought it was an actual gun,” Hernandez said….”
This was NOT an airsoft gun, but a BB pistol which is NOT REQUIRED to have an orange tip…not that it matters in Cleveland, home of the latest high-profile officer-involved shooting of a kid in a park with a gun….sheesh…. We added the emphasis….