They knew enough to call multiple units to block entry and egress to the park at a safe distance and take their time to assess the situation for unknowns. Instead, they rolled in hot like they where in an action movie.
The shooting of Tamir Rice was a crime and a travesty in my opinion it’s just a common sense factor, when you see you are dealing with a little kid that requires a different skill set than just blasting them away it’s common sense I believe those cops or at least the one who shot him should be in prison.
This latest shooting Blake? Where he was shot in the back the guy was ignoring verbal commands and actively moving to his car for reasons only he was aware of, he could have been going for a gun, I’m willing to wait till all the information comes out before saying it was right or wrong.
We are not a European country. Compare with other American nations.
Boy, they sure dont teach geography like they used to. 
People are people. There’s nothing special about the American continents that makes it less objectionable for cops to kill with little or no impunity.
OK, so Rice looked like an adult, and his toy looked like a real gun. So, as far as the officers on the scene knew, he was an adult with a gun.
But as the NRA keeps reminding us, being an adult with a gun isn’t a crime, and so “I thought he was an adult with a gun” is not a valid reason to shoot.
Sure, then why not compare all nations, instead of cherry picking?
I’m comparing the ones we should strive to emulate - the ones that do better than us in this metric.
The ones that prove your point.
They should pay cops like doctors and then require malpractice insurance?
I do think that we should pay them better than we do, we should screen the applicants more thoroughly, we should give them better training, and they should have more accountability.
I don’t know if we have to go to doctor’s level pay, but if you think that that is what would be necessary in order to get the quality of people needed to protect our communities rather than terrorize them, then if you are correct, I suppose that would be what we would need to do.
I don’t think that we need to go to the same extremes as you seem to, I mean, I also compared them to airplane pilots, who are entrusted with the safety of hundreds of people at a time, and they don’t get doctor pay.
If we are going to give someone a gun, and send them out into the neighborhood in order to promote safety and security of those who live there, do you think that there should be any standards that they should have to meet? Are doctors the only ones who have to meet standards and be accountable for their actions?
It was wrong It proves that people do not trust the cops authority to not draw their gun for any reason. Would’ve it mattered if he stopped hands up?
Doctors were just the cost / insurance comparison that popped into my mind.
Currently, IMO, the two most underpaid positions in great power and responsibility (with limited oversight) are teachers and police officers. The oversight in both areas is failing.
Usually, yes. But now we can’t know and blaming this automatically on racism is wrong.
This is where the argumentation gets off the rails. You don’t trust the cops, check. You don’t trust the grand jury either …, check.
Who do you trust? Other than your gut feeling that this was just racist cops shooting an unarmed boy?
This was a tragedy no doubt, but all of the evidence points to it being a justifiable mistake. What should have been done to the responding officers?
In the Rice case, I trust Judge Ronald Adrine, who recommended the dishonest cops be indicted. His recommendation was ignored.
I can’t disagree with that.
It is our society that is failing its communities and its future.
Off topic, but yeah, teachers should also be better paid, screened, and trained.
Of course you do, because it matches your gut, however the grand jury did not indite, and from the evidence presented, they were right not to.
They should have put the police in question (well, ALL of them actually) through more rigorous training/ education though
The grand jury almost certainly didn’t indict because the prosecutor didn’t want them to. Grand juries pretty much always indict if a prosecutor wants them to and presents the evidence in such a way. And it’s no surprise when a prosecutor doesn’t want to indict cops, no matter the evidence.
At the very very least, it should serve as a lesson on how not to approach a person who may be armed.
The way that they came at him, they gave themselves no other options but to shoot him. But they are the ones who chose how to confront him, and so the circumstances of how that all played out are entirely because of their “mistake” that should never be repeated.
Excusing their behavior in any way is only asking for such a tragedy to be repeated.
Everything you listed there is all mumbo jumbo gut feelings by you. Not a single fact in evidence counselor.