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.
VIDEO AT LINK
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
You've got to be kidding?
Great pic——that’s how it was when I grew up.
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Something we need to return to is cops with the courage to take some risk, currently they just kill whatever is in front of them as though they are conducting a raid on an enemy camp.
Cops need to be taught about where they are and who they are walking among, and that they need to accept a degree of risk in many cases, they can’t keep operating in this modern mode of instantly eliminating all possible or suspected threats to their own personal safety, this is the issue that is making many of us decide that we need to never involve them in family quarrels or disputes, unless we are ready to see people die.
Cops are unstable and unpredictable and have a union mentality of, the public will have to keep absorbing losses to make sure that cops aren’t at risk.
Young boys do play that way.
A teen who goes to that park said many of the boys bring BB guns and shoot things there.
Agreed.
No, the call was made by a man who witnessed in person. He told the 911 operator that the “gun” probably was a toy. He apparently called the police, just in case it wasn’t a toy.
The irony is ... THIS is something to protest about!!!
but nope, the stupid race hustlers have to keep pushing how innocent the criminal Mike Brown was.
'The guy keeps pulling it out,' he said on the call. 'It's probably fake, but you know what, he's scaring the s*** out of (inaudible).
'He's sitting on the swing right now, but he keeps pulling it in and out of his pants and pointing it at people.
Not no more he aint. A regular "gentle giant" in the making... dead. And to think, he was just turning his lif3 around.
Just in case anyone would not want to watch it.
This is all over the news and they keep calling the weapon, “a toy”.
IT WAS NOT A TOY.
You are incorrect that it’s obvious that the gun was fake.
It looks EXACTLY like a Colt 1911 with a rail mount and semi gloss black finish
I was not there so I am in no place to make a fully informed comment, but tactically it might have been smarter to put some distance between the shooter and try to talk him into dropping the gun.
How about sticking up for this kid!!!
How about sticking up for the kid who answered his door with a wii remote and got blown away????
How about sticking up for the people who have been blown away in their own homes when the police raided the wrong house???
How about sticking up for the 1,000’s of dogs that are blown away each year by rouge cops for no reason what so ever!!!!
naaa.. that would rather stick up for a bunch of thugs who deserved what they got like Trayvon and Brown!
I agree with you. Your reaction is exactly what I expected all FReepers to have.
Frankly, I’m surprised that some see what happened as perfectly OK.
Amen.
“Plenty of time to warn him three times, make an informed decision, draw, aim and fire. [/s]”
MIT scientists have revealed the human brain has a 15-second lag that helps stabilize incoming visual information, which we don’t notice bombarding us in the course of our everyday lives.
Here’s the link... I’ve read about this before but I was unsure of the delay. So I goggled it.
http://rt.com/news/brain-neuroscience-visual-information-709/
With that in mind, and the 2 second delay in killing the boy what does tell us?
That's what I've been mystified about! The Eric Garner case was horrible. Right after Ferguson, a cop in St. Louis shot a crazy guy staggering around with a knife who wouldn't frighten any grown man. And there's plenty more, especially if you throw out the racial angles.
I could never figure out why Ferguson was such a big deal. It's making me paranoid.
The police got too close too soon and the kid made a bad move, which is unfortunately what kids do.
Unfortunately culture and location is relevant. If you saw a Palestinian entering a bus Israel wearing something that looks like a suicide belt, who would have more of a reason to fear then if you saw an American college student at a Halloween party wearing something like that.
Young boys killing with guns is very very common place in some neighborhoods.
Sounds like an unfortunate chain of events that led to tragedy. Nothing malicious.
Race baiters deliberately pick the most despicable thugs as their poster boys, because they know whites will be screaming how they deserved what they got, thus creating the division.
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