Documents posted on Scribd today show just how disgusting the Cleveland Police Department really is. A week after police officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the department charged the dead child with aggravated menacing and inciting panic. Seriously.
Tamir Rice was killed by Loehmann in a city park after concerned citizens overreacting white people called 911 to report a black kid waving a gun around in the park. The 911 callers told dispatchers that the gun was likely fake, but for some reason that information was not relayed to responding officers. Loehmann and his partner, Frank Garmback, arrived on scene and immediately shot the child to death.
Not only did the trigger happy cops shoot a child for absolutely no reason, but they allowed him to lay on the ground bleeding and didn’t render any first aid. Such amazing human beings….not.
According to new information, the police thought that it would be a great idea to charge the dead child with two crimes a week after he was gunned down. The police cited a weapon in the incident report. Apparently a little boy playing with a TOY is aggravating menacing. He was so scary that he incited panic! I guess I better tell my ten-year-old that he’s only allowed to play with his toy guns inside the house, lest he scare our white neighbors and police.
Why in the world would the police file charges against a dead child a week later? They knew the case would never be heard by a judge because their officers already decided a child playing was punishable by death. The only plausible explanation is that the Cleveland police were covering their asses and by filing charges against him they hoped he’d be seen as a thug. They’ve already said he caused his own death in court documents.
It should be mentioned that months after the unstable officer shot Rice, the Cleveland police have still not wrapped up their investigation into his death. Exactly how long does it take to figure out their officers were wrong? That thin blue line certainly doesn’t seem so thin, does it?
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“thin” blue line. How many of them would actually pass a fitness test?
Probably not mental/psychological fitness.
Another reason why I have zero trust in American “police”. I’m starting to wonder if I should worry about carrying my white cane (which I need to be able to navigate)
This is a case of sheer bloody stupidity on the part of two useless idiots. The one driving the car pulled up right next to the kid and the rookie in the seat PANICKED and shot the kid dead. Neither of those two idiots should ever be allowed to work in any police capacity again, not even meter maid.
An INTELLIGENT response would have been to stop 20 - 30 feet away, get out of the car slowly and talk to the kid. Just tell him to put the gun on the bench and come over. This was a stupid and senseless tragedy.
I agree. Pulling up right next to the person who might have a gun is stupid. How can you possibly assess the situation?? Fatal error.
And then, letting the boy die without giving him aid is simply murder.
This could have ended differently-without the boy paying with his life.
What were the police supposed to do, wait until they were shot to determine if the gun was real?? Self defense is what the police did. Get over it.
So what do you do if you are told to drop the gun and put your hands up at the same time within 1.8 seconds, otherwise you are dead. We would all be dead in that situation. bad policing is what caused this tragedy and that’s why we aren’t going to “get over it” until that officer is behind bars.
Brian, in the first place you don’t go out in public waving a gun, real or not.
Can’t wait until idiot open carriers start getting gunned down then,
I wouldn’t count on it…
It was a toy. You’re supposed to go out and play with it.
The police should have stopped far enough away, sheltered behind the car, ordered the kid to drop the weapon-good police work. These officers did not do that, and now a 12-year child is dead. The child did nothing wrong IN THIS CASE. The police did a lot wrong IN THIS CASE.
Kids do all the time, it’s called playing. The police should give time for someone to respond to their commands. You nor I knows if the child would have put the gun down as instructed because he wasn’t given a chance.
Bad policing or bad parenting or bad judgemnet? Why is it ALWAYS the police’s fault with some people?
Whatever happened to personal respinsibility?
Personal responsibility would be charging the dispatcher who failed to tell the cops witnesses said the gun was probably fake.
Yes that’s exactly what I expect grown men in body armor to do. Get over it.
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Its a shame , but when cops show up and say drop it. Drop it. They dont know its a toy. They had no way of knowing it was a toy. The first aid, was not administered because the sister kept trying to get to his body interfereing with a. Police scene, till she was put in restraints and in the back of a police cruiser. Next time your playing with a toy gun, leave the orange circle on the end of the barrel. It might save your life.
Have you seen the video? The cop never said “drop it”. He opened the door, jumped out, and started shooting. He gave no warning commands. He just wanted to shoot a n*gger.
You have NO clue, do you?
Murder is murder, plain and simple, and what the Cleveland Police did was MURDER!
Because the all caps makes it so?
Chris, sounds good unless it was your kid.
He was shot before the police even stopped the car.
Think it was the prosecutor, not the police who did these charges.
“lie on the ground.” Rice should be the poster boy for police brutality. He was 100% innocent, no record, not in the commission of a criminal act.
This person has horrible writing skills
One more thing, if you read an article written by someone who clearly is taking sides instead of being impartial like a real journalist should be, look elsewhere to validate the information. Once again another idiot wannabe journalist spreading lies. I can’t post the link with my phone but these charges were never charged to the dead kid
Sorry folks, for all of the other police brutality charges that are legitimate, there is a lot of grey in this one. The kid was pointing what looked like a real gun at people. He reached for it when the police pulled up. The kid died because of a combination of his own foolishness, bad luck and sloppy, but not criminal, police work.
If officers are panicking over a child with a toy gun. They are not fit for duty. Apparently, the whole leadership of the Cleveland police force isn’t fit either and needs to be changed.
most officers aren’t fit for duty let alone anything else these days-these dirty rotten scumbags cops who murder and do anything else they want wout real fear of punishment is getting really outta control-and sad to say its only going to get worse before it starts to get better…….
You should do some research and replace the word most with the words very few You do know what the population of this country is right? More people were killed in Baltimore this Memorial day weekend by their own than all these cases blown up by the media lately, combined.
486 people have been killed by police this year so far, some deservedly, but not all.
I call bs. When you consider the situation in other areas of the country, why would his parents let him play with a gun? Be it new or a toy, some parental responsibility should also be considered