Call to Justice: Stand with Tamir Rice

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   Peter

   December 29, 2015 at 8:43 PM

   Such a tragic yet avoidable death. However, why are you not holding the poor kids parents responsible for allowing him to roam the streets and pointing at people what would looked like a gun?

   It everybody stops having a hissy fit, and think logically, if you were a Policemen, patrolling an area and get a call that a black male is in a park pointing a gun at people, what would you think when you arrive at the park and see a black person who pulls out what looks like a gun from his waistband?

   In a city park, you clearly are not hunting wildlife, you do not walk around with a gun and pointing at people and think it is innocent fun. This kid had removed the bright orange cap from the end of the air pistol, which is there to make it easily identifiable as a air gun. This 12yo modified his airgun to look like a real gun and was pointing at people, That is why someone called the Police as they were alarmed by this person’s actions assuming either the person is mentally ill, or a criminal.

   So before everybody blames the Police, how about blame the American Gun Culture, How about blaming the gutless politicians there that have allows this climate to develop, and finally, how about blaming the parents for letting a 12 yo roam the streets with what looks like a gun! What sort of parents raise a kid to think it is ok to point guns at people?

   Articles like this make me want to vomit at the stupidity of the media, who seem to forget personal responsibilty. 12 yo’s should not be raised to think it is ok to intimidate others, as by taking the orange cap off the airgun,k he clearly wanted to intimidate people, and they should not be carrying weapons, whether guns or airguns. If the parents had been acting like responsible parents this would not have happened. It is not the actions of an innocent to walk about with what looks like a weapon and point it at people. If he didn’t realize that, his parents should have and taught him better.

   When will the media wake up to itself and stop posting such mindless gibberish, crying racism and bigotry when, in this case, is clearly parental neglect and stupidity.

   Yes the Police Officer has some guilt to blame, he should have exercised more caution before drawing his weapon. That is easy for me to say as I was not there. Yet in the USA, the prevalence of guns, and the gun culture, mean that Police cannot act they way they would in Australia or the UK, where the assumption is the average person is unarmed. In the USA the assumption is that the person they are approaching is that they ARE armed. In this case a weapon was clearly visible, and they were responding to a call about a black man pointing at gun at others. A 12yo has no business pointing what looks like a gun at anybody.

   So yes, the Police officers assumptions were wrong. THAT IS EASY TO SAY NOW. He assumed he was facing an adult, armed with a gun, who had been pointing it at others.

   He was facing a 12yo who was large for his age, he could not know that at the time, He was not carrying a gun but an air gun(modified to look more like a real gun), but he could not have known that at the time. The Author of this article is posting gibberish about this kid was shot because he was big for his age, what utter rubbish, shame on you for posting such lies. This child was not shot because he was a big child, but because he was carrying a airgun modified to look like a real gun, and pointed at others in what he thought was fun, and unfortunately he was not the size of an average 12 yo, but was big enough to look like a small adult.

   The Author of this article needs to grow up and get off the innocent victim bandwagon , and stop posting gibberish and lies about the Police Officer being scared due to the child being a big black 12yo, and post the reality that the Police officer was responding to a call about a armed person pointing a gun at people with what appeared to any reasonable, person as a small adult with a weapon.

   In all the hype, created by substandard writers with a leftist agenda, contributes to an even greater tragedy. They muddy the waters, with their biased and discriminatory reporting of an event, instead of reporting the real problem.

   The tragedy here has 3 causes. 1) Parental negligence in the extreme. 2) The gun culture of the USA and lax gun laws. 3) Too many Police Departments which results in lack of standards in training and personnel.

   The USA has some of the best police Forces in the world, and some of the worst. With over 15,000 law enforcement bodies, ranging for The NYC Police, and Los Angeles Police Departments which have high standards, to the local hick town Sheriff who is elected because no one else wants the job. The USA needs much higher standards of training and recruitment, that is uniform. It is not a race problem it is a standards problem.

   Yet the Author of this article ignores parental neglect, the gun laws and lack of standards in Policing, and goes on how this poor stupid kid was big for his age and implies the Officer shot him deliberately because he was a big for his age black child.

   Your article is disgusting, it does nothing to address the issues, and only wants to stir up hate and resentment. Shame on you!

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   Ran Hansen

   December 30, 2015 at 6:03 AM

   Call to justice? Justice was delivered in the case of Tamir Rice. The grand jury decided the evidence did not support criminal charges against the police officers in this unfortunate incident.
   This story portrays the incident inaccurately. It stated, for instance, Rice was “playing in a park.” The fact is he was brandishing a replica of a gun. People were frightened and called the police. The police thought it was a real gun. It was not a toy gun as some have suggested; it was an Aursoft pellet gun, a weapon that can injure or even kill.
   The article states he was shot before he “could even get his hands in the air.” Video evidence shows he was pulling the gun out of his pants moments before he was shot. The police justifiably thought he was going for a gun.
   Muslim Matters is behaving like a lynch mob, pre-determining that the policemen are guilty in the absence of a trial and ignoring the evidence. If Muslim Matters really believe in justice, you would recognize that justice has been delivered the way it has been designed in America. The grand jury considered all the evidence and applicable law, and determined the policemen were innocent of wrongdoing.

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     Suhail Ahmad

     December 30, 2015 at 7:17 AM

     Ran Hansen. Total rubbish!. There are hundreds if not thousands of cases clearly demonstrating, the violent, trigger happy and racist demeanour of many white-american cops. The fact remains, these two murderers (laughably called police officers) did not follow correct protocol. Instead of investigating the matter by communicating with the kid and defusing any misunderstanding (ie – racist stereotypes), these two blood thirsty criminals instead went on a shooting rampage. Is it any wonder that usa has consistently been voted the most racist country in the world since 2010-2015?.

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     Sibaweh

     December 30, 2015 at 3:09 PM

     Well said, Ran.

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   Mohamed Warsame

   December 30, 2015 at 10:07 PM

   Bigoted racist like Ray are showing up in here as well. Don’t worry Ray no one expects humanity from the likes of you. Go troll somewhere else.

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