http://www.ajc.com/news/news/officer-fatal-shooting-12-year-old-described-distr/njLCN/
The article "Officer Who Shot 12-Year-Old Described As 'Distracted,' Immature." discusses the police officer who shot Tamir Rice in Cleveland. The police officer was described as someone who was immature and twisted the rules- two years before the incident. The child was shot approximately two seconds after the officers arrived on the scene, according to police video footage. He had not pulled to gun but had moved toward his waistband where the gun was kept. The 911 call reporting the boy said the gun was "probably fake".
I think this policeman deserves to go to jail for the inappropriate use of deadly force. It's obvious that he didn't follow procedure. Two seconds is not long enough to ask someone to put their hands up and wait for them to respond. Additionally, the 911 call pointed out the weapon could have been fake, so he should have stayed behind his door and erred on the side of caution. I also think this is clearly affected by race and even possibly gender. Somehow I feel that if my little (white) sister, who is also twelve, had been playing with exact same gun in the exact same place, she would not have been killed by a policeman. Even with argument of self-defense, policemen have shown better judgement and patience when a full-grown man was pointing a gun at them, so a twelve-year-old with a "probably fake" gun in his waistband should have gotten more than two seconds.
