December 28, 2015

As expected, Tamir Rice's killer will walk away free, with no stain on his record for shooting a 12-year old boy.

This was my immediate response to the claim "enhanced video" showed that 12-year old boy pulling out his toy gun.

McGinty has been telegraphing this outcome for a long time, but that doesn't make it any less painful. It's pretty clear he took a page out of the Ferguson playbook.

Here's the video again. It's graphic, but if you want to see how they play with the truth, watch.

Update:

Let this be a lesson to open-carrying black adults and children who play with toys that look like guns.

https://twitter.com/JuanMThompson/status/681553648523018240

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