SERIOUSLY??????? Tamir Rice had a gun. A gun with the orange safety identifier removed. A real-looking gun he was aiming at people. They didn’t use his race as a danger indicator, THEY USED THE FACT THAT HE HAD A FUCKING GUN. Don’t take the fucking safety indicator off of a gun and then point it at people if you don’t want to get shot. Stop sticking up for these criminals. I hope you need the police sometime soon, maybe then you’ll realize how necessary they are.

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First off, I’m Black and I love myself. So you won’t eeeever have to worry about mE calling the police for almost anything, because I know NO MATTER WHAT I CALLED FOR, there’s a high probability that I’d end up getting shot, shot at, falsely arrested, or accused of doing something I didn’t do…so someone would have to be in the act of chopping down the last oxygen creating tree on earth before I did something as crazy as calling the police

Secondly, THIS is the innocent, baby-faced 12yr old child you’re calling a criminal. His name was Tamir Rice and he did absolutely NOTHING wrong

AND NEWSFLASH: Ohio is an Open Carry state. Tamir had a *toy* bb gun that was NOT pointed at the police when he was gunned down…but even if he did have a real gun, that’s supposedly legal in that state. Guess things like the Second Amendment and Open Carry laws only applies to white people..?

Even white mass murderers like T.J. Lane are arrested and taken into custody ALIVE. It totally blows my mind that in order for a suicidal white person like Lance Tamayo to experience “death by cop” they actually have to go out of their way and flagrantly point real guns at passers by and the police, and even then the cops don’t repeatedly shoot them

And before you try to assassinate the character on his parents, let’s recall the 9yr old white child who’s gunservative™ parents gave her a loaded Uzi machine gun (such fine parenting). And also, let’s not forget about the scores and scores of white people who walk around carrying loaded weapons in public to exercise their Second Amendment Rights, all without the police ever killing them —because (surprise) no racist ever dropped a dime to 911 to report them as looking “threatening” or “suspicious” and even if they did, the cops would TALK to them first, and not arrive on scene with guns blazing

Oh, and you can also skip the “black-on-black crime” derail too because I’ve already covered that thread bare racist trope too

Moving on…surveillance video shows that officer friendly-to-white-people wasn’t even there for two seconds before he literally (not figuratively) jumped out shooting. So in addition to his being close enough to be able to see that Tamir was an innocent child, officer Tim Loehmann is very obviously lying about having given two or three verbal warnings to drop the toy gun before summarily executing Tamir. And even worse, after Tamir was gunned down and lay on the cold ground bleeding out, where again, the police could clearly see that Tamir was a child, Loehmann did not even try to administer first aid. Tim Loehmann and his equally complicit accomplice Frank Gramback, are human scum 

It will never cease to amaze me how racists always engage in transference to somehow criminalize black people when we all know that the next school shooter or the next mass spree shooter is probably going to be another white male, just like the overwhelming majority of the last ones (see also: racial projection and white-male-entitlement-syndrome)

(image via moderndaykathleencleaver)

So I’ll say it again: the police are not evaluating actual circumstances for danger —instead they are evaluating a person’s race as an indicator of danger and have assigned blackness with a value of “imminent threat” where deadly force is an acceptable encouraged first response to anything from jay walking, to being-12-while-black