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This isn't even about race.

If police tells you to stop, you're supposed to stop, people need to respect authority.

Police have families and loved ones too, should they just let X gun them down because it would make them look racist? Hell no.

And you continue to prove my point.  Hindsight and halftruths are your side's only tool.  If the cops thought it was a toy gun, then they could have reacted as such.  But, at that moment, they thought it was real.  There was no indication it was a toy.  The orange tip that was put on it BY LAW so this crap doesn't happen, was purposely removed so it would look real.

So, I guess in your mind if someone held up a bank or was holding someone hostage with a fake or real gun, then the cops pulled up and demanded he drop it, yet he points it at them, they shouldn't fire?  They better make damn sure 100% by touching or getting really close to make sure it is real, otherwise we're going to tear them down?  Going to be a lot of dead cops and innocent civilians if that is your requirement.  Your bias speaks volumes.

There were at least 28 people shot and killed in 2015 for holding a BB guns.  I highly doubt they were all black.  I did find a story about a Hispanic boy who was shot and killed in 2013 for holding one.  Not sure why that didn't cause a national outcry.  Hmm.  Just because the media doesn't make a big deal or the nation doesn't has a week/month long discussion, because a white kid was shot for holding a fake gun, doesn't mean it doesn't happen.  To act like it doesn't trivializes their lives.  Though, that may be the point.  Only BLM, after all.

I was under the impression that the police force was strained due to always ongoing budget cuts, hence the shortcuts on training etc.
Yet if you say it's used to buy expensive toys instead of more feet on the ground, that's actually worse :(

Well for starters other countries do handle situations like that differently. Maybe the police should evaulate the way they respond in a situation like that (a kid holding a toy gun for example likely doesn't lead to death if this is say ... Germany). Maybe they should have better screening and training for their freaking officers too. Maybe you shouldn't be able to walk off the street and become a cop in less than a year. Maybe tasers or other non-leathal weapons need to be employed moreso so that the default isn't "oh, I don't know exactly what's happening here is he reaching for a wallet or maybe a gun, I'll just shoot and figure the rest out later".

I'm sorry but that's not good enough. 

It seems to be as a police officer you can make a "whoops ... oopsie, I made a mistake" of murdering someone and then basically get off with a slap on the wrist most of the time. And that's where people begin to get angry. 

See I told you the shooters would be black.

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Yep, it's been an ongoing problem since 9/11. They get federal funds to buy all of these toys, but some of the bill is from the states and cities as well. Pretty much nobody likes it except the police themselves. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-police-departments.html

" Inside the municipal garage of this small lakefront city, parked next to the hefty orange snowplow, sits an even larger truck, this one painted in desert khaki. Weighing 30 tons and built to withstand land mines, the armored combat vehicle is one of hundreds showing up across the country, in police departments big and small."

"During the Obama administration, according to Pentagon data, police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft."

"The equipment has been added to the armories of police departments that already look and act like military units. Police SWAT teams are now deployed tens of thousands of times each year, increasingly for routine jobs.Masked, heavily armed police officers in Louisiana raided a nightclub in 2006 as part of a liquor inspection. In Florida in 2010, officers in SWAT gear and with guns drawn carried out raids on barbershops that mostly led only to charges of “barbering without a license.”"

"A quiet city of about 25,000 people, Neenah has a violent crime rate that is far below the national average. Neenah has not had a homicide in more than five years."

Dude, stop.

Okay you have lost me...first your point was about perpeuating a lie now it is about cop bad criminal made a mistake? I know the whole turth about the situation we are discussing at hand right now. This CHILD was playing alone in a park by himself with a toy gun that looked real. He was walking up to people acting like he was going to shoot them and pretty much just being a child. Guess what kids do that...has nothing to do with pretending to be a thug or even looking up to them at all. Not saying it is good for a child to do that but they do. No one was hurt, no shots were fired the only thing the cops had was that the gun LOOKED real from a distance.

I don't know if the cops felt miserable or not. They sure didn't go out of their way to let it be known that they did. But as a human i would want to think that they did. Even though drawing guns on a lone child because he as what appears to be gun is still beyond me. There have been plenty of instances where cops have told someone to put a gun down and they did not comply without being killed. So no I am not in agreement that they should have fired and no I can't say that I would have fired becuase it doesn't make sense to just unload on a child from a distance at all.

And lastly...you can't be serious so you are really telling me that you feel it would no thave made the news if a white child playing with a toy gun was gunned down by black cops? And you are sure it has happened plenty of times? I literally have no words for that because I am at a loss as to how you could even say that with a straight face.

Yeah me too I hope thing schange as well as they very well need to.