[Ammi]

..it's not that simple though..in saying that it's that simple is only looking at Tamir and his actions on that day and not the actions of the police officers...should he have gone out with a toy gun that looked like a real one, should he have waved it around and pointed it toward people etc...well no, of course not, a pretty dumb thing, eh..but he did, didn't he because he was a 12yr old boy and 12yr old boys can do dumb things...


..in an open gun state, it's for police officers/trained police officers to be able to distinguish the 'dumb' though, to be able to assess danger and to be able to attempt to protect themselves from it to try to uphold the law so that no one gets killed..they chose to not park a distance away from him, take cover etc and try to talk to him and in doing so would have realised his age...I mean, he had a gun but he hadn't fired it, if it was a real gun then he'd had the opportunity to hurt people with it but he hadn't, so maybe didn't intend to even if their thoughts were that the gun was real...but no talking..?...no assessing..?...no attempt to protect themselves even..?..just pulling right up a few feet away from what they thought was a 'public danger' ..is that what a police officer training would say to do...to drive straight into a 'danger zone'...

..he was dumb, well they were dumber because he was a 12yr old child who was dumb, they're trained police officers who didn't give any opportunity for a different outcome, one that would not have meant a loss of life...they drove right in front of him when they didn't have to, their choice..they gave themselves no more than seconds, so that to them, a split second decision had to be made to shoot him dead, their choice...the choice of police officers who have chosen to do this/their job in an open gun state so should be able to determine things before they fire their weapons...or at least attempt to, even if they were to get it wrong because no one is saying that errors of judgement can't be made sometimes but there was no apparent attempts at all to be seen with this...yes, he walked toward them with the fake gun but how did that happen...?...because they drove right up in front of him, because they put themselves in that position, he didn't do that..he didn't force that split decision out of them, to shoot and kill him...not once did they try to protect themselves from what they're saying they thought was a genuine weapon..the dumbest of the dumbest of the dumb and it's so wrong to dismiss that by focusing only on Tamir's wrongs in this...to focus only on the dumb of a 12yr old child...


..interesting actually because I'd forgotten the police call content and although a complete description had been given of what he was wearing etc, it really couldn't have been any clearer, there was a repeat question of...'is he black or white..'...so there was no one else wearing those same clothes, why was that so relevant that it was repeated and repeated and repeated...


..and it 'was his mum's fault' as well..(not his dad's obviously, but just his mum's..)...so many people at fault here but no fault on those who shot him, poor things...being forced to put themselves in danger the way they did, being forced to give themselves no alternative but to shoot him dead...to allow for no other outcome...to find out if he had any intention of firing a gun that he hadn't thus far fired...whatever Tamir did wrong, he has fully paid the ultimate price for that and so have his family, those police officers have not for their many, many wrongs with this....so really not that simple at all...