More Crazy Cops

A 12 year old boy who was brandishing an airsoft gun has been shot and killed by police in Cleveland, Ohio:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/23/boy-fake-gun-shot/19438005/

WTF ???

Considering what has been happening in Ferguson, MO, it is incomprehensible that police all over the country apparently have not reassessed their procedures to ensure that things like this can't happen.

When the person who makes the 9/11 call says twice that the gun is "probably fake", shouldn't that tip off the police to be extra cautious?

And why do people keep manufacturing and giving to their children such realistic toy guns? Is this not a tragedy just waiting to happen?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airsoft_gun

I've written about this before, apparently to little effect:

http://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2013/12/toy-guns-and-trigger-happy-cops.html

The moral of the story: Never buy an airsoft gun. If you do, don't let your children have access to it. If you let them have it anyway, make sure the orange tip doesn't fall off. And if it does, don't let them take it outside.

Because apparently no matter where you live in the US, the cops are gonna shoot you first and ask questions later.

Note well:

NOTHING JUSTIFIES THE KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE, EXCEPT FOLLOWING PROPER POLICE PROCEDURE.

Update: After watching this video of the event, I would say that the police had no reason to kill this boy. Why did they even drive up on the lawn next to him? They could easily have diffused the situation, but instead chose to turn it into a confrontation. If this is what police are being trained to do, then their training is shit:

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/26/video-tamir-rice-shooting-police-peace-loving-boy