Justice for Tamir Rice! 12 year old shot and killed for a BB gun.

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174. That is certainly possible.

I know that the police in Ferguson were "working the public attitude", as you say. And I agree that police sometimes (or often, even) say whatever they want to just to make themselves look better.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that police are doing that in this particular case. To me, the case against the cops looks flimsy.

Not only that, I think it sounds believable that the kid was just playing around with something that looked exactly like a real gun, people got understandably scared, someone called police, and when the cops told the kid to put the gun down, he unfortunately did not react in a way that made the cops think he was just a kid playing around. This is how I understand the events, and when I see the airsoft "gun" I see something that looks indistinguishable from a real gun.

Of course it is tragic, and horribly sad. I cannot actually place blame on the cops, unless contradictory information comes out.