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The family of a 12-year-old Cleveland boy fatally shot by a police officer responding to a call about someone with a gun says police acted too quickly and his death could’ve been avoided.
A statement released Wednesday evening by attorneys for Tamir Rice’s family says the family has viewed a surveillance video of the shooting and thanks the city for releasing it publicly.
The video shows Tamir carrying an airsoft gun that shoots non-lethal plastic pellets. Police say the officer who shot him fired within 2 seconds of pulling up in his cruiser.
The family says it hopes police and prosecutors thoroughly examine the shooting. It asks for the community to remain calm and protest peacefully.
(AP)
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How many jewish kids have been shot by police? Can u guess what. The difference is?
This one is on the police. Watch the video, if they are truly responding to an armed individual, then why would they pull into the park grass like its erev shabbos? They should’ve pulled up farther away, approached him with their guns drawn shouting “drop it.”
Also, if you read other reports, an adult called the police and emphasized that the gun is probably fake and is being held by a minor. Why can’t the adult be an adult and approach the kid and ask him to leave the park?
I’d like to have seen the police approaching him from a little farther away with guns drawn as oppose to getting up close and personal and then using the gun right away.
Also, please don’t take airsoft guns into public spaces. They look too real for the untrained eye to tell the difference and throw people in a panic.