Minneapolis police arrested a 10-year-old boy for allegedly driving a stolen vehicle near a school playground last month — and it’s not the boy’s first brush with the law, police said.
Minneapolis police arrested a 10-year-old boy for allegedly driving a stolen vehicle near a school playground last month — and it’s not the boy’s first brush with the law, police said.
Well, he’s 10 now, but it sounds like that was a prior incident, so I suppose he could have been younger at that point.
8 year old trying to steal your car with a nerf blaster painted black…
He has assault with a dangerous weapon charges in there (which I assume is Minnesota’s term for what is “deadly weapon” here), so I’d guess that he was using a gun or maybe a knife against someone in at least one of his prior incidents, so I’d give reasonable odds that if he was using a weapon in the attempted carjacking, it wasn’t a Nerf gun.
EDIT: Yeah. Minnesota criminal code:
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.02
And if he has assault charges, he would have been using on someone, not just carrying it.
(Obviously I was being facetious, but a bit of clarification on how bullshit these laws are: )
Not familiar with Minnesota legal code, but in the states I am familiar with, assault is threatening with a weapon, not battery or attempted. Most jurisdictions I am experienced with also include threats with a weapon that was presented to the victim as deadly in the same category, so airsoft or other props count the same as a functional weapon.