re: No charges against cop that shot Tamir Rice

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What a lot of people are focusing on, is the officers having little to no time to react, whereas it looks as if Tamir saw them driving up. He had more time to think about his actions than they did, and he decided to reach for his gun.

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He may very well have been thinking that it's best to not have what appears to be a real gun in his waistband when the po-po rolls up. He may very well have been trying to pull it out real quick to throw it on the ground and/or show the officers' that it was fake. Maybe little Tamir always wanted to be a police officer when he grew up and he was playing in the park, pretending to fight bad guys with his toy gun.

Even if the above were all proven to be 100% true and accurate, it still doesn't mean the officers' actions were criminal. (I know YOU aren't making that assumption...I just replied to your quote.)

"Criminal act". Everyone should say it 10 times. That's what was determined to not have happened on the officers' part. Nobody decided they handled it perfectly. Nobody decided that Tamir deserved to die. ALL that was decided was that the officers' actions were not criminal.

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It does seem a bit odd that they drove onto the grass... + plus everything else you wrote

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That's a good take on the big picture.

I saw no reason for them to drive up so close. There are no other people in the picture to be threatened.

I think the cops had a chance to stay back and evaluate the situation. Just my take and the reason I feel they deserve some kind of slap on the wrist.

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So a kid that's walking and minding his own business gets shot and you think it's justified.

Get the frick outta here

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Wait, what? That fat Ferguson fool? Different all together. Totally justified shooting.

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it's basically the same as saying the parents are to blame for letting a known trouble making kid roam the streets and point a very realistic looking gun at people

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If they want to claim he was too young to know what he was doing, then they are very much to blame for that, both from an ethical and in many states legal standpoint for the actions of their 12 yr old.



If they are willing to admit that their young man knew full well that he could scare people more effectively with his prop firearm by removing the orange identifier and pointing it at strangers, and consequently claim they did their best to prevent his idiotic behavior then they can say they have no blame for his actions with relative impunity.

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Well, we don't know that he actually was, do we? All we had was the 911 caller SAYING that, right?

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There was video of him pointing it all over the park.

LINK

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Also, why was it necessary to tackle and cuff his 14 year old sister 2 minutes after he was shot?

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No clue. Doesn't mean anything as far as the shooting is concerned.

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And they won't like the answers, so they'll be writing a gonzo-sized check.

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This will only happen to simmer the faux outrage from the black community. It won't be written for legitimate reasons. Which shouldn't matter if you believe getting that check equals justice.

This was going to incite riots, civil suits and police hatred no matter the circumstances. It has nothing to do with a kid being shot. It has everything to do with his skin color. And that's a damn shame.

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LSUTANGERINE

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GTFO

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We know: white Christian males bad. You don't need to repeat where you stand, it's well known.

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Never have I said or implied that. My response was in retort to a post that implied that black people riot every time they feel wronged. Nice leap though.

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I see the argument. However, it's basically the same as saying the parents are to blame for letting a known trouble making kid roam the streets and point a very realistic looking gun at people.

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No, it isn't. This is a supposedly professional organization making professional decisions. Did they do ANY due diligence on this POS? I've done lots of interviewing in my life and we would never hire someone with that poor of a reference from his former employer. Stop making excuses for these assholes. Stop defaulting to the cops.

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