Discussion: Grand Jury Declines To Indict Cleveland Police In Killing Of Tamir Rice

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Fucking bull shit, is all i can say.

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Things are different when the ham sandwich only killed a black kid.

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“Grand Jury Declines To Indict Cleveland Police In Killing Of Tamir Rice.”

GOPthink:

  • If White guys at the Bundy Ranch point actual assault rifles at federal agents, it’s freedom.

  • If a 12-year-old Black child at a playground has a toy gun, it’s best to kill him immediately.

Compared to Fox, Orwell was an underachiever.

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Well, a prosecutor said that there was “indisputable” evidence. I guess that’s all we need to know. Judges, juries, and defense attorneys are no longer required.

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“perfect storm of human error” - Is this the new wording used to justify violent police behavior? I bet the Chicago PD is coining the phrase right now.

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The police basically have a license to murder. It has always been thus.

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Un.fvcking.belivable.

After all the ‘antics’ related to grand juries, this year and last, I will never again consider them a legitimate source for justice.

Like so many things in this once-great nation, nothing but window dressing on a cluster-fvck.

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I am physically sickened by this insanity. What the hell is wrong with people.

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It’s nearly certain that Rice intended to hand the toy to police or show the officers it wasn’t real, which officers couldn’t have known, he said.

They didn’t want to know.

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The prosecutor said the gun looked real and Tamir was at fault for taking the orange tip off. You know, the gun that was in his pants that the cops didn’t see…

Screw him as much as the cop that did the killing.

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"something,something Scooby Villains (crooked cops) aren’t supposed to get over like that.’

Anyhow I wonder if the cities should just have a "settlement sheet’, where after a few blank lines are filled out, a victim’s family can get paid as quickly as possible.

Short of a slam dunk case (northern va and the Oklahoma cases), putting a cop on trial is becoming a waste of time.

By the way, I don’t wanna hear from the Rice jurors.

In their ‘world’’, that view never changes.

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This is sickening, it really is. Disheartening.

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The 911 call was made to the police about the boy’s presence in the gazebo and the caller said

“There is a guy with a pistol,” the caller had said. “It’s probably fake, but he’s pointing it at everybody.”

We can debate for a long time why that phrase wasn’t relayed.

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You know, I have tried so hard to be fair-minded and give the benefit of doubt and the presumption of innocence we’d all hope for. I grew up trusting the police, with a close family friend on the force, and as an Irish-American, with pride in our historical participation in public service, both NYPD and FDNY.

But how is it possible that, without a warning, without even an attempt at disarming this boy, two adults shot a child, and got away with it? HE WAS A CHILD! I know that children can kill, but it’s not as if they gave him the chance to show that he just had a toy.

Unacceptable. And disgusting. And yet another brick in the wall dividing this country, making people of color look at public servants with hatred, leading to more confrontations. We have to find a solution or our system of law is useless.

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Since Rodney King the game has been fixed.

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By the way, Cleveland is 0 n 2 in regards to these cases (at least in regards to high profile ones) this year.

That of course doesn’t include the Crawford case

“oh well”

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Bumper Sticker material.

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The black community should protest this injustice by buying all their children realistic looking toy assault rifles and sending them out to play.

This decision casts and even bigger dark cloud over what this nation calls the Justice System. If a police office in this case cannot be indicted, what in the hell would it take? With a video showing this whole incident and the hand cuffing of the sister all in a very short time frame and still no indictment is total B.S. and just plain wrong!

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