Tamir Rice update | Abagond

November 22nd 2014: Tamir Rice, a Black boy playing in a park in Cleveland, Ohio with a toy airgun, is shot down by police. The police report they gave him three warnings before shooting, that Rice was in his 20s. The video shows them shooting him almost instantly. Tamir Rice is 12.

Police have the right to gun you down without warning if they think you have a gun and look like you are reaching for it. Even if you are 12.

 

Ohio law allows people to openly carry guns.

 

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Reports: Officer’s shooting of 12 Year Old #TamirRice justified

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A white Cleveland police officer was justified in fatally shooting a black 12-year-old boy holding a pellet gun moments after pulling up beside him, according to two outside reviews conducted at the request of the prosecutor investigating the death.

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Mother Rejects ‘Hush Money’ in Fatal Police Shooting #DarrienHunt #SayHisName

The mother of 22-year-old Darrien Hunt refused a $900,000 settlement, describing the offer as “hush money.”

 

Darrien Hunt, 22, was shot and killed by police officers in Saratoga Springs, Utah, last September. He was reported to be walking in a shopping mall wearing a Japanese anime costume and carrying a samurai sword.

 

Four of the six fatal bullets that hit Hunt were from behind.

 

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