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.
I’m trying to imagine getting car-jacked by a 10 year old and it just keeps getting funnier.
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.
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
Subd. 6.Dangerous weapon.
“Dangerous weapon” means any firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or any device designed as a weapon and capable of producing death or great bodily harm, any combustible or flammable liquid or other device or instrumentality that, in the manner it is used or intended to be used, is calculated or likely to produce death or great bodily harm, or any fire that is used to produce death or great bodily harm.
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.
