Posted on 11/26/2014 7:03:35 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
FULL TITLE: "The moment Cleveland cop shot dead a 12-year-old boy in the playground: Footage captures moment officer killed Tamir Rice after mistaking his BB gun for a real weapon"
Cleveland police have released video footage showing the moment 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot dead by a rookie officer who mistook his BB gun for a real weapon.
The boy was shot by Timothy Loehmann, 26, on Saturday after a 911 caller reported seeing a juvenile waving around a gun - but did not know whether or not it was real. Newly-released audio showed that the 911 dispatcher did not pass on this concern to the responding officers.
At a press conference on Wednesday, authorities released the 911 call, police dispatch calls and a grainy video showing the moment the officers arrived and shot the boy.
The footage shows Rice - who the officers thought was about 20 - reaching for his waistband instead of responding to police requests to raise his hands, police said. They fatally shot him just two seconds after pulling up in their cruiser, the footage shows.
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"The moment Cleveland cop shot dead a 12-year-old boy in the playground: Footage captures moment officer killed Tamir Rice after mistaking his BB gun for a real weapon"
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WARNING: This is raw video.
IMHO, 12yo Tamir comes across as a young boy playing with a toy gun. Not sure how anyone could mistaken him for a 20-year-old who was a threat.
Why is this “controversial”? This stupid thug-in-training probably learned from his felonious father. The dispatcher failed to relate the callers description of a “probably fake” gun. Mistake, to be sure, but why was he waving it around and refusing to stop when ordered by police? Why are we blaming police for doing their job? Is Giuliani the only White official who will stand up and say enough?
"The moment Cleveland cop shot dead a 12-year-old boy in the playground: Footage captures moment officer killed Tamir Rice after mistaking his ALTERED BB gun for a real weapon
The shooting was no doubt justified but I really question the wisdom of police officers driving up to within 6 feet of the guy and then shooting him immediately at point blank range.
This could have been done a bit smarter and from a longer distance in a way that would have prevented the need to shoot
So the call was made because of what someone saw on a surveillance camera?
Leonard Warner, who fathered the 12-year-old boy fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer Saturday, has multiple convictions for the abuse of women, court records show.
People from across the region have been asking whether Rice grew up around violence. The Northeast Ohio Media Group investigated the backgrounds of the parents and found the mother and father both have violent pasts.
On Tuesday, Warner, 34, requested a continuance in his latest domestic violence case now moving through Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.
He is accused of punching his live-in girlfriend in the head and arms during an incident in August, according to a police record.
The victim's name is redacted.
Warner is estranged from Rice's mother Samaria Rice, who pleaded guilty to drug trafficking last year and assault in 2001.
The same year, on Dec. 8, 2001, she was the victim of domestic violence. Warner was her knife-wielding attacker at a home in the 3800 block of East 92nd Street, according to a court document. The report does not say if Rice was injured.
THIS is the real story. The unreported story. The breeding of young thugs by an eviscerated Black family structure, by Progressive design. Cloward Piven to the nth degree.
Cops claim they warned him three times before shooting him. Yeah, right.
Did you watch the video?
I disagree. That’s a 12-year-old playing with a fake gun. It’s obvious in the video. Not sure why a police officer didn’t see that.
Why they pull up right next to him if they thought he had a gun? They sure didnt waste any time shooting.
Listen, you don’t have to preach to me about young thugs. I grew up and lived most of my life in high crime areas.
But THAT is a video of a young boy playing, not a threat to anyone.
We’re talking about the boy here, not his parents.
“Not sure why a police officer didn’t see that.”
Because they didnt take sufficient time to observe?
THANK YOU.
We all know that the development of the amygdala, the portion of the brain which generally fosters judgment, is not complete until the early 20’s, but how could other behavior-controlling/influencing parts of the brain not be well developed enough to provide the message “do not hold a gun or a reasonable facsimile of such in the direction of the police”? I made plenty of judgmental mistakes in my youth and adolescence, but I’m sure that the lack of wisdom in pointing even a toy gun at a law enforcement officer (who gets lots of training, and range time), was apparent to me at age 6 or 7. Was this kid developmentally disabled in some fashion? Tragic, to be sure.
Yeah, you’re right. Within seconds.
Plenty of time to warn him three times, make an informed decision, draw, aim and fire. [/s]
Who was he “playing” with? Looked to me like he was intentionally trying to scare people with his “toy”.
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