If you need to feel a sense of righteous anger, read this. In short: Cop pulls gun on kid who has a TOY GUN, kid doesn’t drop toy gun, cop murders kid. Then the cop is cleared of all wrong doing and goes back to duty.
When it’s all reported in the media, a bunch of apologists show up to explain that the kid’s rights weren’t violated because “cops have a hard job” and “the kid should’ve known.” Yes, because the sensible thing to think is that a 12-year-old should know enough about a situation to listen to two random adults yelling at them to stop and that the burden of proof is on the kids rather than the adults. Not to mention that toy guns are required, by law, to have bright plastic tips. Furthermore, THE KID WAS TWELVE GODDAMN YEARS OLD! Read the comments, they’ll make you furious. I hope each one of those apologists is targeted in a wrong door raid, that would teach them. Assholes.
[Via The Agitator]
