Wrong.
First of all, the gun was AirSoft. so had an orange tip.
It would have if Tamir didn't remove the orange tip to make it look more like a real firearm.
Second is that he obviously was small enough to clearly be identified as a child.
His autopsy report showed he was 5'9, 195 lbs, and after the shooting, the officer called it in to dispatch that the subject was in his late teens to early 20's. You have to remember that the media plays you people like fools. They only released a picture of this kid several years earlier just like they did in the Travon Martin shooting. You bought is hook, line and sinker.
Third is that the police drove up on the grass right next to Tamir, and if they had not done that, they would have had no excuse to claim to feel at risk.
Why would they not claim to feel at risk either 20 feet away or five feet away. Do you understand the speed that a bullet travels? Your comment makes no sense whatsoever.
You can't claim self defence when you are the cause of your own feelings of fear.
The officer was not the cause of his fears. His fear was when a person pulls out a firearm in front of him despite his orders to freeze.
And if a child had picked up a real gun, would that justify shooting him that many times?
He was shot once.
It was still deliberate murder.
Murder is legally defined as an intent to kill somebody. The officers did not go there with the intent to do that.
And the video show no attempt by police to do anything a normal person would have done to clarify the situation before shooting.
There was no time to clarify anything. They pulled up to the kid, told him to freeze, and he was pulling out a realistic gun on them. What does one clarify when your life can possibly be at it's end in a matter of less than one second?
You can not remove the orange part as it is the barrel, but I suppose you could paint over it.
But I doubt Tamir did that?
And no, Tamir was hit twice, and witnesses said there were 6 shots.
{... Loehmann, who fired two bullets into Rice ..}
The department announced that it found insufficient evidence to "support federal criminal charges" against Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback.
www.npr.org
Worse is that the call to police had warned police it was a juvenile and was not likely a real gun.
{... The officers were responding to a 911 call during which the caller said there was a man — "probably a juvenile" — pointing a gun — "probably fake" — at people on the playground. ...}
Speed of a bullet is irrelevant.
If they had parked 100' way and used a bullhorn, then they would not been in danger.
At that distance a pistol is not accurate enough to be risky.
No normal person would have driven on the grass at all, much less right up to a person they were supposed to be wary of.
What the police did was insane.
