"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.
Why they pull up right next to him if they thought he had a gun? They sure didnt waste any time shooting.
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.
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.
This is all over the news and they keep calling the weapon, “a toy”.
IT WAS NOT A TOY.
Notice how the Mail continues to say the boy was “Gunned down” instead of “shot” (because of his suspicious behavior.
Typical British anti-American shit and I’m tired of it. Surprised that the Mail did it. Always expect it of the Guardian, a Marxist-oriented national rag.
The video seems distorted, like he appears shorter and squatter than reality, but maybe that is just me.
Since the kid had been walking around with the gun for some time and done nothing, looks like the cops would have pulled in much further away and questioned the kid from a distance.
Kid was acting carelessly, but cops could have taken more precautions rather than pulling right up to him.
A BB gun is a real weapon. Kids have been killed in accidents involving BB guns. One case I’ve read about involved a little girl whose brother shot her in the chest accidentally. The BB grazed the aorta and she bled to death from internal hemorrhaging.
At the very least, the TSA won’t let you carry one on a plane. That’s weapon enough!
2 freaking seconds? And..
“Newly-released audio showed that the 911 dispatcher did not pass on this concern to the responding officers.”
Well I’d think that was a relevant piece of information. Isn’t it? But these days incompetence is the norm. Can’t trust the Prez, the Congress, the VA, the IRS, governors or certain states, much of the police force, and 911 operators. Who did I leave out?
As much as I am leary of cops I am on their side on this. If I drive up to this situation and see someone pulling out a gun on me they get shot. My BB gun is identical to my Kimber 1911.
I kind of understand why the cop shot the kid. He had to make a split second decision and got it wrong. Those two SWAT wannabees came in much to fast and close though, making a calm assessment of the situation impossible and giving the boy no time to react to any commands thus putting themselves in a situation were a fatal outcome was hard to avoid.