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In reply to the discussion: Cleveland Police: Incident where officer shot & killed 12-year-old boy caught on surveillance video [View all]alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Nobody bothers asking whether the same facts would have produced the same dead kid in some tony suburb, with a twelve year old white boy. Needless to say, whether the gun "looked real" (here comes some shithead with the picture they've been using to spam the board) is of interest to people who already think that twelve year old black kids look scary. "Spittery bluster of course it would happen to a twelve year old white kid dressed head to toe in Gap Kids clothes blah blah blah protocol." Bullshit.
Don't get distracted by the gun nutters and their breathlessly posted pictures. This is about black folks having a shorter life expectancy when white cops are around.
One of these dumbshits is commenting on every thread that mentions this, same routine, over and over. Can't get enough of it. "It really shows what you can do if you have the know-how and the hardware," to quote Michael Herr, ahem.