Outrage builds as video shows Idaho police shooting a knife-wielding teenager with autism

By GENE JOHNSON, CLAUDIA LAUER and MARK THIESSEN, Associated Press
Idaho police officers opened fire from behind a chain-link fence just seconds after exiting their patrol cars and critically wounded a teenage boy — described by his family as nonverbal, autistic and intellectually disabled — as he stepped toward them with a knife, video from a witness shows.
Seventeen-year-old Victor Perez, who also has cerebral palsy, remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday after having