Officer Involved Shooting of 12-Year-Old

I want you to imagine that you're the chief prosecutor in Montgomery, Alabama,

a mid-sized Southeastern city that like many other cities across the country has seen its problems

with poverty, crime, and race relations. At about 4:30 in the afternoon,

as you're getting ready to leave the office for the day, an emergency call comes in from the

assistant chief of police. In your conversation with the assistant chief of police,

you learn that a city police officer just shot and killed a 12-year-old black male.

An investigation has just been started, so details of the shooting are scarce. What you do know

is that there was a 911 call about a young black man waving a gun around in a park and pointing