A 12-year-old boy with a replica gun was shot and killed by Cleveland police over the weekend.
Police authorities had received a report about a 911 call in which someone reported that a juvenile was scaring people with a gun that was “probably fake,” USA Today reports.
Officers arrived at the scene on Saturday and the boy, Tamir Rice, pulled the fake weapon. According to reports, he did not point the gun at the police or make any verbal threats. One of the policemen shot him twice in the torso. He died on Sunday at MetroHealth Medical Center.
In the aftermath of the incident, Jeff Follmer, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, said “the officers were not told the 911 caller thought the gun might be fake.”
Rice’s gun was an “airsoft”-type replica gun, a BB-gun type gun that looked like a semi-automatic pistol.
The case is currently under investigation.
Posted: at 24-11-2014 06:58 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Onyibochukwu at 24-11-2014 08:29 AM (10 years ago) (m)
Quote from: EmekaBlue on 24-11-2014 07:54 AM
Stupid police
my friend it's not the police ok, you kno how many police men and kids have lost their life in the past. why scaring people with a fake gun, tommorow he will pick up real gun and shoot!
Posted: at 24-11-2014 08:29 AM (10 years ago) | Upcoming
EmekaBlue at 24-11-2014 08:46 AM (10 years ago) (m)
Quote from: Onyibochukwu on 24-11-2014 08:29 AM
my friend it's not the police ok, you kno how many police men and kids have lost their life in the past. why scaring people with a fake gun, tommorow he will pick up real gun and shoot!
A 12yr old kid with a fake gun shot twice..come on
Posted: at 24-11-2014 08:46 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Aniagain at 24-11-2014 10:47 AM (10 years ago) (m)
Why was the boy not shot in the hand Or leg if the police felt he was a threat to them? Now that oyibo police av started behaving like Nigerian Police, I wonder where we are to run to
Am too defended to be a victim
Posted: at 24-11-2014 10:47 AM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
never include gun - be it toy, semi toy or real. 
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