12-31-2015, 05:19 PM
(12-31-2015, 04:19 PM)Cutz Wrote: Because the moral of the story is that some guy called the cops because he was afraid for people at the park. If he was positive it was a kid with a toy, he doesn't make the call. He thought it was a dude with a gun. As far as the response goes, it's usually safer to treat a possible threat as a threat. The driver put them in a bad position and Tamir put himself in danger, twice. All of that has nothing to do with racially motivated murdering cops as some would tell the story.
The 911 caller told the operator that a male was waving a gun around and scaring people. And, he said that he thought it was probably a juvenile with a fake gun. He also described the male.
McGinty contends that had the officers been given all of the relevant information provided by the 911 caller, it might have changed the officers' approach and changed the outcome.
McGinty [prosecutor] argued that Tamir’s death was caused by a ‘perfect storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day’ but there was no evidence of criminal misconduct by police. The two officers believed they were responding to a ‘potential active shooter situation’ and had not been provided with crucial details of a 911 call reporting that Rice was probably a juvenile with a gun that was ‘probably fake’, McGinty said.
‘Had the officers been aware of these qualifiers, the training officer who was driving might have approached the scene with less urgency; lives may not have been put at stake,’ McGinty said.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/...y-loehmann
In any case, the 911 dispatcher is no longer a dispatcher and I'm anxious to hear the status of the officers. That review is still in progress.