I didn't want to. But the fake-ass outrage from you and the Swanson elitist made me do it. So here:
I guess watching an innocent boy with a toy being swiftly gunned down wasn't worthy of a comment by HedonistForever.
Originally Posted by eccieuser9500
Fair enough. It was a terrible mistake on the part of the cop but the premise that a child with a gun ( turned out to be a toy gun ) can't shoot and kill you as easily as an adult is a faulty premise. Still, I believe the cop acted to quickly but malice was not evident or proven as I remember.
Loehmann killed Rice after a concerned citizen called the police to report seeing a person with a gun at a recreation center, ABC News reported in December 2015. The onlooker told the 911 operator that the gun might not have been real, and that the suspect might have been a teenager. This information was reportedly not passed on to dispatch.
Here is a picture of the toy gun.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/toy-gun-ta...ry?id=35982086
The toy gun is "functionally identical" to the real gun, the office says.
A photo released today by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office shows what it says is a real gun next to the replica gun 12-year-old Tamir Rice had the day he was shot dead by a Cleveland, Ohio, police officer.
Prosecutors said in a report released today that the gun Tamir was carrying -- at the top and right -- was "functionally identical" to the real one pictured at the bottom left.
The report came in the wake of a grand jury's decision today to not indict officer Timothy Loehmann or his partner, Frank Garmback, in connection with Rice's death. Rice had that toy gun when he was shot dead by Lohemann on a Cleveland playground in November 2014.
"Even to a trained eye, careful side-by-side comparison is required to notice the differences," the report says.
"During the tense, uncertain and rapidly unfolding moments of an actual encounter, the officer facing a suspect carrying what appears to be a gun often does not know if it is real or fake," the report said. "Worse, the officer will know that if he guesses wrong, that may be the end of his life."
The report said that an orange tip that would normally be on the fake gun was removed along with its laser sight in Tamir's case. Typically there is a warning on the packaging indicating that removing the orange tip of the gun "is dangerous, may cause confusion, may be mistaken to be a real firearm by law enforcement officers or others and may be a crime."
"Although there is evidence that on the day of the incident, at least two people warned Tamir about the dangerousness of using the gun in a public place, there is no evidence that Tamir ever saw any warnings from the gun’s packaging," the report said.
Rice was killed in November 2014 after a concerned onlooker reported seeing someone with a gun at a local recreation center. However, information given to the 911 operator that the suspect may have been a juvenile and the gun may have been fake was never passed on to dispatch.
"The officers, who had no idea that the gun was fake or that Tamir was only 12, thought he was going to pull the gun
out at them," the report said.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty said today he recommended that no charges be filed against the officers. After the grand jury "heard all the evidence and the applicable law, they were told our recommendation," the prosecutor's office said. "But they made the final decision."
Rice's family was "disappointed" by today's outcome but not "surprised," his family's attorneys said. The attorneys said they are renewing their request for the Department of Justice to "step in to conduct a real investigation."
So, now you want to comment on a couple of animals in the "peaceful protest" damn near beating an innocent female shop owner to death or any of the other senseless acts of violence by so called peaceful protesters?
Does a bad act by a police officer, warrant the wholesale destruction of a city and the killing of innocent law enforcement that had nothing to do with the killing of Floyd?
