“Air soft” pistols are designed to look EXACTLY like the real thing, except for the orange plug on the muzzle, which Tamir, like many, had removed. Saying it was a toy misses the whole point of these very dangerous “toys” that tons of kids modify to make look totally real.
Saw a training video of police officers with a reporter, the "suspect’ might have had a knife in his pocket, and she shot him before seeing the knife come out. The instructor said it was a proper shoot. She already had a bead on the guy. While the instruction was that a knife wielded can cover 20 feet before the officer can pull the trigger, I don’t buy that a guy can pull a knife, AND cross 20 feet in a tenth of a second. I, as a former law enforcement officer, and combat troop, found the video disturbing, as I have disarmed folks, without even using my firearm.
The advent of large capacity magazines instead of revolvers for police HAS created a “pull the trigger, repeatedly” philosophy in many departments, rather than focusing on accuracy of making every shot fired count.
Rice was a threat, and it was the dispatcher who failed to tell the officers that the gun was already reported to probably be a toy, that put a panicked trainee (passed over by another department) to shoot first and ask questions later. It was a bad situation, but still boils down to kids, like those over six feet tall, to run around with real looking weapons, playing point and shoot with strangers.
OmqR-IV.0 over 8 years ago
Good analogy. Everything is a joke.
louieglutz over 8 years ago
I’m going to get a lot of noise for this, but that pistol the kid was waving around was not a toy, nor did it look like a toy.
lonecat over 8 years ago
When I was a kid I played with toy guns, but somehow I never got shot by a policeman.
Dtroutma over 8 years ago
“Air soft” pistols are designed to look EXACTLY like the real thing, except for the orange plug on the muzzle, which Tamir, like many, had removed. Saying it was a toy misses the whole point of these very dangerous “toys” that tons of kids modify to make look totally real.
Saw a training video of police officers with a reporter, the "suspect’ might have had a knife in his pocket, and she shot him before seeing the knife come out. The instructor said it was a proper shoot. She already had a bead on the guy. While the instruction was that a knife wielded can cover 20 feet before the officer can pull the trigger, I don’t buy that a guy can pull a knife, AND cross 20 feet in a tenth of a second. I, as a former law enforcement officer, and combat troop, found the video disturbing, as I have disarmed folks, without even using my firearm.
The advent of large capacity magazines instead of revolvers for police HAS created a “pull the trigger, repeatedly” philosophy in many departments, rather than focusing on accuracy of making every shot fired count.
Rice was a threat, and it was the dispatcher who failed to tell the officers that the gun was already reported to probably be a toy, that put a panicked trainee (passed over by another department) to shoot first and ask questions later. It was a bad situation, but still boils down to kids, like those over six feet tall, to run around with real looking weapons, playing point and shoot with strangers.
Tarredandfeathered over 8 years ago
Time for the Justice Department to step in..Unless they really Want to change the name to:
“Department of Justice When It Isn’t Too Inconvenient”.
Jennifer Kendzior over 8 years ago
Ohio is an open carry state so Tamir had the 2nd amendment right to be holding a gun, real or otherwise.