You really think it's normal to threaten people in the park with a gun made to look real? You don't think this kid would have had a real gun if he had access to one?

Look, the police did an AWFUL job on this and the kids death could easily have been prevented. But some of you are acting like this was a young Neil Degrasse Tyson on the verge of discovering the key to dark matter. This was a future criminal, if statistical and objective evidence can be used.

It's the wrong person to paint as the example of your movement, just like Michael Brown. Another thug. Why do people want to make thugs the faces of their movement?

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Posted by slackster

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Posted on 12/28/15 at 9:14 am to fr33manator

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It's the wrong person to paint as the example of your movement, just like Michael Brown. Another thug. Why do people want to make thugs the faces of their movement?

I've got no ulterior motive and my post history makes my opinion of the BLM movement very clear. I'm also of the opinion that we cannot just ignore the law because the deceased was a bad person. It is almost as if some of you argue that it can only be murder/manslaughter if the victim was a saint. The argument shouldn't be whether or not Tamir Rice would have been a contributing member of society; the argument is whether or not the officer committed a crime.

Even if he was justified in the shooting, we should still search for ways to prevent this series of bad decisions that led to the outcome. Surely there were other conclusions that could have been reached besides death, right?

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