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Tamir Rice:Judge finds cause for Murder charge over police killing 12 year-old[W:262]

Re: Tamir Rice: Judge finds cause for Murder charge over police killing of 12 year-o

they didn't now it was a bb gun. the kid had removed the orange signal tip to show that it was a bb gun. without the tip it really does look a like 1911 colt.
I hope you would use more logic in your posts on things like this.

the cops can't tell at a distance more so with it in his pants that it is a bb gun. if you look at the gun itself it looks very real.
and a 45 cal gun is nothing to sneeze at. it can do some serious damage.

Whether you're holding a toy gun or a real gun and pointing it at anybody or anything when the cops show up, you're not bright. I wouldn't give my kid a BB gun that looks so much like the real thing.
 
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cops put themselves into those situations all the time that doesn't mean they should have to ask 100 questions before they do something.
could the approach been better probably but they got a call about a kid walking around waving a gun at people. that is far more dangerous then what the cops were doing.

Cops are held to the same standard as you and I are. If they themselves aren't in imminent danger and nobody else is either then they can't claim self defense if, after recognizing a potential threat, they put themselves in a dangerous situation.
 
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The kid probably was breaking the law. I don't know what the law is in Cleveland but in in most places pointing a firearm, even a pellet gun, at people is illegal. Besides, the responding cops would have no way to know whether the gun was real or not as they approached.

In this particular scenario the primary problem was in the way the cops approached. There did not appear to be an imminent threat to anyone at the time they came on the scene but the driver certainly - and unnecessarily - put himself and his partner in a potentially deadly situation. Self defense generally goes out the window if you knowingly and willingly go from a safe position to one of imminent danger unless you are doing so to protect someone else who is in such danger.

not for cops. if you watch the video the cops pull up and the kid gets up and walks towards them lifting his shirt up and putting his hands to his waste.
that is threat enough for the cops to pull their guns and shoot.
 
Re: Tamir Rice: Judge finds cause for Murder charge over police killing of 12 year-o

As a previous poster has noted, there was no one around outside where the kid was playing, so no he was not waving a gun at people.

evidently someone was there as the cops were called and he was reported for having a gun and in the video it shows him pointing it in different directions. while the 911 caller said it might not have been a real gun the police can't take that chance.
 
Re: Tamir Rice: Judge finds cause for Murder charge over police killing of 12 year-o

they didn't now it was a bb gun. the kid had removed the orange signal tip to show that it was a bb gun. without the tip it really does look a like 1911 colt.
I hope you would use more logic in your posts on things like this.

the cops can't tell at a distance more so with it in his pants that it is a bb gun. if you look at the gun itself it looks very real.
and a 45 cal gun is nothing to sneeze at. it can do some serious damage.

Ok. However that does not change the fact that they should have approached differently seeing that it was a 12 year old and there was a complete lack of communication between the kid and the officer. What ever happened to pointing your gun at the suspect and telling them to put down the weapon?
 
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Whether you're holding a toy gun or a real gun and pointing it at anybody or anything when the cops show up, you're not bright. I wouldn't give my kid a BB gun that looks so much like the real thing.

I wouldn't let my kid roam around a public park with it. that is the real question. of course the kids parents probably aren't home.
stupid on his part unfortunately it was a very costly mistake.

the judge doesn't matter it is the GJ that will still decide.
 
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It was ruled a homicide, LOL.
:doh
iLOL
Which was slammed as being political and shown to be wrong.
And we know it is wrong because he was not put in a choke hold.

And when a person says they can not breath that is an indication that they can actually breath. Duh! When is your side going to learn that?

It is clear he died becasue of complications of his own ill health.
 
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Ok. However that does not change the fact that they should have approached differently seeing that it was a 12 year old and there was a complete lack of communication between the kid and the officer. What ever happened to pointing your gun at the suspect and telling them to put down the weapon?

Again, they didn't know he was 12, so drop that bit. And reaching for your weapon when cops have guns trained on you is the very definition of soon to be lead poisoned.
 
Re: Tamir Rice: Judge finds cause for Murder charge over police killing of 12 year-o

Ok. However that does not change the fact that they should have approached differently seeing that it was a 12 year old and there was a complete lack of communication between the kid and the officer. What ever happened to pointing your gun at the suspect and telling them to put down the weapon?

not when that suspect is walking up to your while in a car and reaching for a gun in his waste.
there isn't time to ask 1000 questions.

the video clearly shows the kid doing this. it was stupid on his part.
 
Re: Tamir Rice: Judge finds cause for Murder charge over police killing of 12 year-o

Cops are held to the same standard as you and I are. If they themselves aren't in imminent danger and nobody else is either then they can't claim self defense if, after recognizing a potential threat, they put themselves in a dangerous situation.

a guy walking toward you lifting up his shirt and reaching for a gun is an imminent threat.

they didn't put themselves there they were responding to a call that someone reported that someone in a park had a gun.
 
Re: Tamir Rice: Judge finds cause for Murder charge over police killing of 12 year-o

Ok. However that does not change the fact that they should have approached differently seeing that it was a 12 year old and there was a complete lack of communication between the kid and the officer. What ever happened to pointing your gun at the suspect and telling them to put down the weapon?

Right.

While the kid's age is pretty much immaterial the cops (especially since there were two of them) had ample opportunity to approach in a way that could have contained the situation rather than exacerbate it.
 
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I wouldn't let my kid roam around a public park with it. that is the real question. of course the kids parents probably aren't home.
stupid on his part unfortunately it was a very costly mistake.

the judge doesn't matter it is the GJ that will still decide.

Well, the judges statement matters in that it can be influential. But he can't make the DA bring charges, I agree.
 
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a guy walking toward you lifting up his shirt and reaching for a gun is an imminent threat.

they didn't put themselves there they were responding to a call that someone reported that someone in a park had a gun.

They DID unnecessarily put themselves in a dangerous situation. At the point of their arrival there was no imminent threat of great bodily harm to themselves or anyone else.
 
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They DID unnecessarily put themselves in a dangerous situation. At the point of their arrival there was no imminent threat of great bodily harm to themselves or anyone else.

No, that came when the perp reached for his weapon.
 
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Well, the judges statement matters in that it can be influential. But he can't make the DA bring charges, I agree.
No, it really matters not.
But do tell how you think it is influential? Especially as we can see that he is wrong about what the video shows.

All he is doing is showing he is a biased individual.
 
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They DID unnecessarily put themselves in a dangerous situation. At the point of their arrival there was no imminent threat of great bodily harm to themselves or anyone else.

100% wrong, but you are letting your bias over rule reason and logic.

them responding to a situation with a guy with a gun is putting themselves into a dangerous situation and there was an imminent threat for when they pulled up he got up walked toward them lifted his shirt and reached for a gun.
 
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100% wrong, but you are letting your bias over rule reason and logic.

them responding to a situation with a guy with a gun is putting themselves into a dangerous situation and there was an imminent threat for when they pulled up he got up walked toward them lifted his shirt and reached for a gun.

My bias for what? The law?
 
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My bias for what? The law?

it isn't the law you are making it up in an attempt to justify your bias against the police.
 
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No, it really matters not.
But do tell how you think it is influential? Especially as we can see that he is wrong about what the video shows.

All he is doing is showing he is a biased individual.

From the link in the op.

“We are very much relieved and it is a step towards procedural justice and people having access to their government,” Madison told the Guardian.

The judge’s finding followed community leaders taking advantage of a little-known law to appeal directly to the judge to commence a prosecution of the officer, as is permitted in Ohio and a few other states.

“State law does provide an avenue for a private citizen having knowledge of facts to initiate the criminal process,” Adrine wrote in his order.

Madison said the judge’s finding showed “the police are public servants and not the public’s master”.
 
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it isn't the law you are making it up in an attempt to justify your bias against the police.

Lol. That's funny, you cannot accuse Lutherf of an anti-police bias!
 
Re: Tamir Rice: Judge finds cause for Murder charge over police killing of 12 year-o

it isn't the law you are making it up in an attempt to justify your bias against the police.

My bias against the police?

Wow!

I suppose I should probably let you ponder that for a while.
 
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It's hard because the police seemed to have acted way too fast without taking anything into consideration.

But at the same time, the way that kid was pointing the pellet gun... And it's not like these things look like toys.

I mean, look at the M1911 pellet gun.

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It's definitely going to be tough. I don't know if murder is the right sentence though. And for that reason, I think that if he goes to court with a murder charge, it's most likely going to be dropped.

Tamir Rice NEVER pointed the toy at the police.
 
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Lol. That's funny, you cannot accuse Lutherf of an anti-police bias!

I was kind of thinking the same thing.:lamo
 
Re: Tamir Rice: Judge finds cause for Murder charge over police killing of 12 year-o

Let's hope this starts a trend, and we settle police brutality in open court rather than secret grand juries.

How about there rather than mob justice and in the media too?
 
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It's without a doubt that the cop is going to get roasted in civil and criminal court (somehow).

I just cannot, personally, see this as being MURDER.

Also, this was from a previous thread months ago. This was the EXACT pellet gun the kid was holding at the scene.

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Looks like a 1911 to me. And it sure as hell looked like one to the cop.

Yea. That damn sure looks real. And in the time of mass shootings being common? I would understand being paranoid about it. But then again...game wardens approach armed people all the time without shooting them.

Maybe we should stop hiring cops who have never fired a gun before?
 
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