I guess you had to be there...
You wonder why these questions have to come up.
Black rap culture has taught the kids that waving around guns and getting crayZ is cool. Sometimes actual people don’t get that you’re trying to be cool. Play stupid games ...
The pellet gun in this case was a replica of a semi-auto pistol, and its orange barrel cap had been removed. It looks quite like the real thing.
Why are cops being issued pellet guns now? Budget cuts?
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Didn't he realize he could shoot his eye out.
Pigs.
The real questions should be (1) when will Cleveland have neighborhood police patrols, so police aren't racing in from babysitting down-town tourists or whatever and (2) who gave Tamir that real-enough looking gun and (3) why the youths nearby (like his sister) didn't stop Tamir from waving that "toy" around and pointing it at people
Meanwhile, the "black lives matter" mentality has lead to a horrific increase in the murder rate in Cleveland, mainly on the east side.
In Cleveland, the problem was and still is that there's not enough neighborhood policing. The residents are trying to address that. But the narrative and outsiders with an agenda keep getting in the way.
JMHO
I guess you had to be there...
1200fps .177 pellet is about 90% the killing power of a .22LR. 1280fps on a .22LR but not the grains for the mass.
If the pellet gun was C02 powered it was a deadly weapon. The one I had was 22 caliber and could penetrate the wall of a house.
Why does “white” and “black” have to be in the very first paragraph? If the colors were reversed they probably wouldn’t even mention it. They so wanted this to be about race but it isn’t and never was. It was always about an idiot waving a gun around that rightfully got shot by cops.... Because that’s their job. The AP sucks!
How could this court rule this verdict. Don’t they know the boy was “black?” That, in itself, means he is totally innocent.
Don’t they know that black lives matter?
Yeah.... I saw the video. I don’t know if I’d throw the cop in jail, but he would NEVER be a cop again.
Insane.
When does the #BLM protest/riot/looting start?
“12yr old with a pellet gun. I guess you had to be there...”
These days many cops are trained in simulators where one moment someone looks harmless but suddenly pulls a gun and the cop has to shoot before being shot. That may prime cops to shoot at the first sign of a threat. The other issue with this specific case is the cops driving up within a few feet of the suspect which immediately puts them “in the hole” and at much greater risk. If they had stopped 50-100 feet from the kid they would have had more time to assess the situation and have some cover.
I remember reading back in 1968, just after the murder of Bobby Kennedy, some women in a store just about had a melt down when another woman had a toddler in a cart playing with a toy gun.
That year is when gun owners really started going through hell from the news media.
Yea I saw video when this story first broke of the kid (larger than I am) pulling the pistol and pointing at people walking past. If anyone ever does that to you, trust me, you would be happy to see them get wasted.