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DarkTransient posted...

Not overly familiar with the specific case, was it a "this is actually 100% unjustified" case like Philandro Castile, or a "BLM's outraged but later evidence showed it was justified" case like... well, most big-name cases?

If it's the former then fuck that he shouldn't ever have the job again, but if it was the latter then no problem.

Police get a call about a kid that keeps "pointing a gun at people," and that "the gun is probably fake." Cops pull up at high speeds and find a little kid with an airsoft gun without the orange cap, get out of the car and blow him away when he pulls it out of his pants. The entire situation lasted less than five seconds. The car didn't even stop before the kid got dropped. The officers claim that they shouted about him showing his hands multiple times, but no witnesses to the situation reported this happening and it happens so insanely fast that that wasn't even a possibility, really.

The officer who killed Tamir had previously been in -another- police force in another town and had resigned because he feared he would be fired due to having a reputation for being unable to follow directions and having poor composure under pressure. He was also later fired for lying about his prior employment history from the Cleaveland PD which he was with when this happened.

Both the driver of the cruiser and the shooter got off entirely free. There are a lot of conflicting opinions about the investigation into them and the way the prosecution treated expert witnesses called in to discuss the use of force to the point where they were described as something more approximating misnamed defense attournies for the cops. The parents later sued the city and settled.

It's a case that's upheld as pretty absurd, especially considering the shooter's history. This is more like his -third- chance as a fuckup cop than anything
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