I'm surprised no one has brought up the 12 year old that was shot in a park in Cleveland.
The guy who called 911 said multiple times the gun was probably a toy. In 2 seconds after arriving the kid was shot dead. The second link will show he was judged unfit to serve in 2012 .
The police story does not match what video shows.
http://www.vox.com/2014/12/3/7326243...contradictions
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"Police also claimed, according to the Associated Press, that the officer who opened fire on Rice asked the boy to put his hands up three times, suggesting that Rice was given ample warning before he was shot. The video footage doesn't disprove this, but it suggests the officer who shot Rice, Timothy Loehmann, would have given the commands fairly quickly — Loehmann shot Rice within two seconds of his squad car pulling up to the park pavilion."
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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...n-judged-unfit
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A police officer who shot a 12-year-old dead in a Cleveland park late last month had been judged unfit for police service two years earlier by a small suburban force where he worked for six months, according to records released on Wednesday.
Officer Timothy Loehmann, who killed Tamir Rice on 22 November, was specifically faulted for breaking down emotionally while handling a live gun. During a training episode at a firing range, Loehmann was reported to be “distracted and weepy” and incommunicative. “His handgun performance was dismal,” deputy chief Jim Polak of the Independence, Ohio, police department wrote in an internal memo.
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