You know, it’s not that the concept of blaming 12-year-olds and/or their parents is hopelessly flawed, but facts are stubborn things.
Detective Jennifer Ciaccia, who also serves as a spokesperson for the department, emphasized that the “orange tip” of the gun was missing and that the “the police learned the gun was fake after the shooting.”
As you will see from the video below the fold, when the police pulled up on Tamir Rice, they shoot him in less than two seconds. In that encounter, the gun is never drawn for them to see the missing cap one way or the other.
Nearly two years before he shot and killed a 12-year-old who had an air gun, Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann resigned from another police job after a supervisor described him as “distracted and weepy" and "emotionally immature.”
This is the cop you are defending. Just look at it.
