re: Tamir Rice's (Dead KID!)Family Believe No Charges Coming for Two Officers

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That cop is a fricking idiot. It is what happens when you give a loser mother fricker a $35k a year job, a gun, and perceived power. A lot of our officers don't have enough sense to get out of the rain; those definitely don't need the amount of discretion that they're given.

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All of this, which is why these cases are so hard to determine IMO. Whether people want to admit it or not, expecting every cop to act in a calm, controlled manner and exercise proper discretion in these events is like expecting every hourly staffer at your local Wal-Mart to have extensive product knowledge or expecting your local Taco Bell to get every order correct. Certainly there are exceptions to the rule, but the risks/rewards of being a cop tend to attract a more unstable and illogical subset of our population and these events will continue to happen until that is changed IMO.