12-02-2014, 01:03 PM
(12-02-2014, 12:50 PM)Maggot Wrote: I blame it on the adult that should have been around somewhere at least checking on the kid from time to time. At 12 yrs old do you think the child is OK to be running around going bang-bang at Christ knows what or who? I don't blame society or religious objectivity. I place the blame squarely on the watchers shoulders.
Blaming the police is a cop out and easily done when the finger should be pointed back at the truly guilty, but that would be hard it seems.
So, you disagree with MS's insistence that society won when Tamir Rice was fatally shot to death by police officers. Is that right, Maggot?
In response to your question: I saw the child playing. I don't know what scenario was in his mind when he was tooling around bang banging with a fake gun; neither do you.
Regardless of what was in his mind, Tamir didn't shoot or hurt anyone while playing with his fake gun in the park and he was fatally shot because officers mistakenly thought he posed a threat to their lives. I can understand how that could happen without the officers being to blame. I've said that since post 1 in this thread and, since the investigation is still underway and no new evidence is available, my stance has not changed.