Video of Police Fatally Shooting 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Released (close up details in new video)

[UglyGreed]

Before the officers arrived, the video shows Rice playing with his toy gun. He’s walking up and down the sidewalk, pointing and waving the realistic-looking toy pistol. The dispatcher didn’t relay to the officers that the 911 caller reported the gun was probably fake, so officers were under the assumption it was real.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/26/video-of-police-fatally-shooting-12-year-old-tamir-rice-released-video/

[UglyGreed]

1. I know the police most likely

did not see this video or that is was right for them to kill this child, but my God this is not how one should act with a real or fake gun at any time. Maybe when playing with friends but alone pointing at people passing by is just foolish, but 12 year olds are foolish at times. I don't even know if his parents knew he had an airsoft gun at all. Please sit down with your children even if you do not own a firearm or BB gun or whatever and tell them to respect guns and do not treat them as toys even if they are toys. Today playing solider or cops and robbers can get a kid killed simple as that.

RIP Tamir

[bemildred]

2. Yeah, given the popularity of guns as fashion accessories in the USA ...

I can sympathize with the cops. What if it's real? What if he's a shooter?

Still, what's the hurry? If it's a shooter you'll know real soon. The risk is smalll and the reward of patience is great.

And I remember when I was a kid, and cowboy stuff was all the rage, and we ran around waving guns all day long, and nobody thought anything of it.

[UglyGreed]

3. My kid is the same age as Tamir was

and of course I realize he is white and has a better chance of surviving a situation like this but still one never knows what your child is doing outside of your home. I found him googling assault rifles and hand guns and we don't own any of those things. I do have a pellet gun I bought many years ago but he had no idea I had it. I took it out and started to teach him about gun safety. We made a indoor range of sorts in the basement. He does not touch this rifle at all unless I'm with him and we never go outside.

I told him assault rifles take no skill and are just used to spray bullets and to kill as many people as possible. Hand guns are for killing people not game. We read Tamir's tragic story together but I still worry that one day he and his friends who may have a paint ball gun or an airsoft gun may act like fools and I might be planning funeral myself one day. This story has brought tears to my eyes and I wish I could give some sort of comfort to the family.

[bemildred]

4. Yes, I worry too. nt

[uncle ray]

5. i believe the burden should be on the people with the REAL guns, and who are trained to kill.

NOT on children. to do otherwise is letting the racists win.

[UglyGreed]

6. I hear what you are

saying but the burden to protect our children begins at home, do you agree???

[UglyGreed]

8. Kids do kill

this happened a few months before this killing, a 15 year boy only 3 years older than Tamir...... Teach kids that life is precious, guns, war and killing is not cool. Maybe we all would benefit in the end. We reap what we sow....

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/08/us/washington-school-shooting/

[Beaverhausen]

14. But I don't see any other people in that video.

I guess they were in other areas of the park but they were really close to him it doesn't look like

[jwirr]

7. In the 60s I stop letting my children play with guns. Unfortunately my son-in-law did not. If I

were raising my own kids to day I would not give them guns to play with but it would not be for the same reason. Today I would do it to protect them from the police.

[UglyGreed]

9. Thank you

But in today's world of guns, killing and war is consider cool. It boggles my mind that people don't make that connection. I don't want anyone to lose their child at all.

[RandiFan1290]

10. No Arrests:

[UglyGreed]

11. Please I understand completely

I posted pictures of ammosexuals at Sonic in Mineral Man's thread. Do not label me as a racist or pro police because I'm neither. You are barking up the wrong tree my friend. Happy Thanksgiving.

[RandiFan1290]

12. I believe you are confused

I was just pointing out how they get away with direct threats without so much as a single charge being filed.

[UglyGreed]

13. I know I'm sorry

it a very tough subject to discuss and I don't want people to think I support the murder of Tamir or anyone, be it Michael Brown or Trayvon Martin just to name a few. BTW I would never support what was done at the Bundy ranch. Those guys are not patriots they are idiots and I see the double standard and it makes me sick. Sorry I got upset.