It wasn’t white people who took the orange off the end of tamir’s gun, and it wasn’t white people who taught him such a lack of respect for cops, and who utterly failed to give him a lick of common sense.
And I did teach my kids not to knock over a convenience store then strut down the centerline of a road higher than Jerry Garcia, mouthing off to cops.
First of all I have several pellet pistols that I have bought in the last few years to take care of critters. None of them have any orange tip on them. Second the cops brought their car right up to the kid and immediately shot him. No way they had time to look for an orange tip. If cops would have reacted like this when I was a kid none of us would have survived. In addition to toy guns we had .410s and .22s.