Posted on 12/29/2015 12:21:11 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
The fight isn't over for supporters of Tamir Rice, in fact, they're calling on LeBron James for help.
After a grand jury decided Monday not to indict the Cleveland cops who killed Rice, a 12-year-old boy shot dead while playing with a toy gun, Twitter users flooded the basketball champion's timeline with pleas for him to take a stand by sitting on the sidelines.
The hashtag #NoJusticeNoLebron ascended the trending charts - with hopes of using the player's status in the Ohio city to convince the Department of Justice to take on the case.
"Can we collectively flood @KingJames mentions to remind him not to play? #NoJusticeNoLebron," tweeted @TariqToure, an activist and the apparent creator of the hashtag.
Other Twitter users followed suit, some reminding the Cleveland Cavaliers star of his influence.
"@KingJames Twist the system. You have the power to do it. Right now. This second. #TamirRice #NoJusticeNoLebron," tweeted @expandyourfocus.
Some other Twitter users didn't agree with the plan to hold LeBron solely accountable in retrieving justice.
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James, for his part, has yet to express feelings about the case's end result publicly, though he has thrown support behind other fights for justice including Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin.
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Why do cops shoot at someone who is waving a gun and threatening? To protect themselves and bystanders. Cops cannot know the gun is a toy.
When the underclass stops shooting at cops the cops will stop fearing for their lives.
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Are you familiar with the facts of the case?
I'm an older sort, and I remember the days of John Havlicek. Those were glorious times.
Now... naw. And frankly, the NFL is starting to turn me off, too.
I don't know how bad baseball would have to get for me to turn it off. It's my lifelong passion. I quit watching for a couple of years because of the strike, but I can't stay gone forever.
the nba should sue his little arse as well...
imagine every time the dindos' stomp their pathetic little feet, a major tax funded game is stopped...it could happen every single game, every single sport...
do they really want to go there..
THey saw what worked at Mizzou with player sympathizers and so now it is time to push Lebron into being totally sympathetic. Mizzou on steroids.
I couple of quick clicks on Google tells me LBJ makes 23 million this year. At 82 games that equals over $280,000 per game.
James is not stupid. Do these BLM idiots really think James will walk away from a quarter of a million dollars each game?
Maybe all these people asking for for LeBron to quit his job should vow not to take any government assistance from now on. That would show us.
“James, for his part, has yet to express feelings about the case’s end result publicly”
remember the hoodie pic with the Heat years ago? That’s where he leans.
I gotta say I am eating crow over Labron.
Way back when he was fresh out of school and offered millions - what, $40million in endorsements alone the first year - as a kid.
I thought, “giving a kid out of the hood that much money... he will overdose on cocaine or be in prison within the year”
I was wrong. I think he has good people around him.
This was surely a sad case.I wonder if this 12 year old,170 pound kid's parents (or,might it be *mother*?) ever suggested to him that it was unwise to be waving a realistic looking toy gun around in public.
Given that the cops who responded never were told about the call saying "probably fake" the City/County/State might be open to a legitimate lawsuit...but there's no way in hell I'd ever vote guilty in a *criminal* trial.
Tamir Rice supporters have their own version of what happened to him, and the courts be damned if they don’t fall in line.
Mob justice, no peace!
Point something that looks like a gun at a police officer an expect the officer to roll the dice that you might not shoot him?
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Well, why didn’t the cop just shoot the gun out of his hand, like they do on t.v.?
Dunno what else you are supposed to do with a fake gun but point it at imaginary Indians and bandits. I grew up doing that, so did most everybody else.
There is no way that I would take seriously the speculations of a 911 caller regarding whether or not a gun was “fake”, and neither would any cop in his right mind.
The cop never got that info, so he didn’t have to worry about that one.
The cops never had a gun pointed at them. Fact is there is video of cops racing up next to the kid, jumping out of the car and immediately opening fire.
So yes, having seen the video, it is easy for me to say the cops were in the wrong.
Quit watching the NBA a long time ago. Still watch college bball. At least then I am lectured about white privilege from future millionaires rather than current millionaires.
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