Again - go back to my original post. I specifically stated that I am *ignorant* of whether or not he was committing a crime. WAS HE threatening strangers? I’m not aware of that aspect of this story. In what way was he threatening strangers? Did he point it at strangers? Because we did that a lot as kids too.
“Bang, mister! You’re dead!”
It wasn’t considered such a threat back then because we weren’t all raging hoplophobes.
Unless you can point me to some specific facts on this one, I’ll defer to the hoplophobe explanation which currently includes people being threatened by drawings of guns, pop tarts chewed into the shape of a gun, and a t-shirt with a stormtrooper carrying a blaster.
That was why the 911 call was placed.
The gun was modified to look real.
Past experience dictates future expectations. Hoplophobia has nothing to do with this. What it is about is a society that has been subjected to thuggery cimmitted by feral urban blacks for decades. Face it, if you saw a black behaving the way “little” Tamir was acting and he even motioned at pulling what remotly looked like a real gun, or a knife, or whatever, you would have plugged him, too. Right or wrong, that’s just the way it is. Simple fact is that if blacks don’t want people treating them like they are all criminals they should clean up their culture and stop pointing fingers at whitey.