Read my edit on my post.  And do the guns your nephews own have the orange tip, or do they always remove it?  Do they hang around the same spot in a park, just so they can harass people?  If the cops rolled up would they take the gun out of their pocket to point at the police?  And give a 12 yr old the benefit of the doubt?  At what age does that benefit end?  Giving that benefit is how cops end up dead.  Kids shouldn't try to play gangsta when REAL cops are involved.

Lol, so you would feel different.  Guess what, the cops didn't know.  There was NO way to know.  You and your hindsight.  The only problem is you don't have hindsight when your in the situation at the time.

Where is the half truth lol. Because I didn't say it looked like a real gun it makes it a half truth? How explain that to me? Whenever this discussion is brought up ALL the facts are always talked about which is this child was playing in the park by himself with a toy gun that looked real. Going up to random people acting like he shot them. Those are the facts....guess what else is a fact he died because of a trigger happy cop. Not because he was as you said "acting like a thug"  as you put it. I have to ask do you have kids? Because 99% of kids play around like they are shooting stuff and people all the time. The child may not have fully understood the situation with the cops and kept playing in his mind. So that means death? No my friend thatis not acceptable.

Well if you shot a child who you thought had a gun would you not come out and say you felt miserable? Isn't that the human thing to do if that is how you feel? And it is funny how you assume the BLM movement would not have believed them...part of the outrage was because of the lack of remorse from what happened.

Did you read that story? This man allegedly(not sure if that part is true) tried to hit the officers with his car and they opened fire and were even assumed to have a grudge against the man. Those officers were ARRESTED AND CHARGED with murder....did any of that with Tamir Rice or the most recent two shootings? Did the chilld shoot at the officers with the toy gun and justify the killing? Were they arrested and charged with murder? It is funny how you say people only see half truths but pulled up a video that goes against what you were saying because it showed the opposite of what has been happening when blacks are killed by white cops. They get off with a slap on the wrist and get to go home to their families. These officers were charged and arrested. You can't see the difference here? That's the argument that has been being made.

This is what the protest was about.   A man is shot in his car with a seatbelt on and the child is also shot in the head.

This will never be okay.  But since the cops can't be prosecuted some feel they need to take things into their own hands. 

Some will say the little boy deserved to be shot for being a black thug. And the man was clearly a threat behind the seatbelt perhaps... you know bigot mind thought. 

But lets not demonize the cops here.  Those black thugs had it coming amirite?

In all seriousness, the images released by the times this morning make me ill.   

Guns for all right? smh America.

Oh my bad, I didn't know doing something "stupid" like selling music or walking home warranted being murdered. /s

The half truth is how you approach the story.  You really just want it to be about a black kid playing in the park with a toy gun that was shot by a trigger happy cop.  You actually watch the vid you get the whole picture.  The kid was bullying people, not playing, with an airsoft pistol that looked exactly like a real gun.  And unless you have some sick perversion for the word play or you are just using that word to continue to push your narrative, he was not playing.  He was threatening to shoot them with what they thought was a real gun.  The police are called.  The second the kid sees the cops coming, he starts walking towards them, pulling the gun out of his pocket to point at them.  The cops open fire, fearing it was real.  No trigger happy about it.  If it had been a real gun he could have killed one of them or both.  The fact we know it wasn't real AFTER THE FACT, changes nothing.  The kid acted stupidly and got shot for it.  The cops acted how they would if that kid was yellow, white, brown, or was an adult.  You don't point a gun at a cop and expect him to do nothing, just it MIGHT not be real.  Personal responsibility.

And yes, they were charged, something that happens to a lot white cops, too.  My point was that something like that could happen to a white kid and the nation wouldn't bat an eye.  That proves my point.  The problem your side seems to have is that you only see things through the prism of hindsight and therefore people should go to jail.  The law doesn't work that way and thank God it doesn't.  A grand jury's job is to actually look at evidence and the definition of what the defendant is charged with and determine if there is enough to charge them on.  If not, it's dropped.  If so, it goes to court.  They don't judge him on mob rule.  Or the feels.  Or hindsight.  And the two recent stories just happened.  Have they even reached a decision, yet?

Actually cops are prosecuted, each time there is a shooting their is an investegation by the IA and the DA and they do bring quite a few into court and when they are found guilty they are sent to prison, or if they are found that they weren't totally guilty but used excessive force they are fired, which opens them up to civil lawsuits. The process takes time though, like almost all court cases do. But do to the quanty of over saturation of information and imformation that that has been tampered with. (The are a lot of videos that make the cops/criminal look bad but it has been edited to fit the purposes of the poster to drum up support for their views.

What's sad is that I see people saying stuff like killing innocent cops isn't going to solve the original issue that we have of the many incidents of cops killing many unarmed black men! But isn't this what we are doing exactly in the middle east? We're killing innocent Muslims because of Islamic extremists actions. It's very easy for many Americans to point the blame and cause of issues from the comfort of their living rooms. But this country as a whole is very screwed up and needs to acknowledge where it came from to get to where it needs to be. Many in this country still don't like to acknowledge that slavery existed here, as if that was just a myth or something that happened a thousand years ago...

And didn't take you long to pull out the racist card.  You just lost the argument.  You also used hyperbole, while misrepresenting what I actually said.  Not doing too good on this debate thing, huh?  Acting like a thug can apply to any race.  Though, I'm sure you guys have made it yet another trigger word.

Let me clue you in on some common sense.  Cops are there for our protection.  Sometimes they have to enforce laws that they don't agree with, but that's their job.  Doubt all of them agree with the war on drugs, either.  But, through it all there's a constant.  You point a gun at a cop, you're going to get shot.  Cops lives mean just the same as the criminals as they are taking in.  Even more so if they are good cops and the criminals are real pieces of shit.  And it doesn't matter if we find out AFTER THE FACT that the gun was fake, cause the cops had NO way to tell that at the time.  That's how the law works.

And if you don't want to have to listen to cops, then maybe we should shrink this government down some, huh?  You know, the government that gives them jurisdiction over us and has been militarizing them.  I do find it funny that the people screaming for big government seem to be against the cops.  Quite the contradiction.

Yep, and that's all that happened.  A cop showed up, said nothing, and shot.  Then, drove away and no one, especially not the nation at large, batted an eye.  Don't think I need to type /s for you to get it.