http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/24/cleveland-shot-boy/19471925/ Williams said the "airsoft"-type pellet gun lacked the orange safety tip required at the time of sale and was indistinguishable from a real semiautomatic pistol. I'm not gonna pretend his skin color had nothing to do with this (latent, societal racism would point to the idea that if a little white kid had pulled out the same bb gun, the officer might have hesitated more). But what had far more to do with it was the fact that he had an (illegal) bb gun, without a safety thingy, and he was ignoring a police order. If you feel like blaming someone, which is reasonable, blame the fucking people who buy these things for their children, or blame the companies that profit by making the bb guns look exactly like real guns minus an orange dot. No, they made up their minds in advance because they're people. Our brains aren't wired for impartiality, or to assimilate ideas that we don't agree with. I'm still not entirely sure what happened that night with Brown and Wilson, and I'll never know, so I'm gonna go with the opinion of the 12 jurors who have seen the most evidence. Until something convinces me otherwise.And we haven't started talking about the 12 year old that got shot for having a BB gun in Ohio. GUESS WHAT HIS SKIN COLOR WAS, FLAG.
Tomba said one officer fired twice after the boy pulled the fake weapon from his waistband but had not pointed it at police. The boy did not make any verbal threats, but he grabbed the replica handgun after being told to raise his hands, Tomba said.
People made up their minds in advance because it's the same fucking thing every time