Friday, January 1, 2016

Open carry or concealed, Real or fake ? What is the legal age to carry a handgun ? I think the cop could have hesitated or shot for a non lethal part of the body, BUT....I wasn't the one facing the gun.....

ICYMI: Grand Jury Decides Not To Charge Officers In Tamir Rice Shooting. Also, Rice Wasn’t Open Carrying Matt Vespa | Dec 31,2015

    Back in June, Cleveland Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine found cause to charge Cleveland Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback with murder and negligent homicide respectively in the case of the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Yet, he did not have the authority to issue arrest warrants, and the fact that Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty said the matter of moving forward with criminal charges will be decided by a grand jury. The Rice case is one of the many police-involved shooting deaths of Black Americans that spawned the Black Lives Matter movement.
    Rice was shot and killed by Officer Loehmann on November 22, 2014 after a 911 call reported that someone was walking around with a gun at a local park. Rice was playing with a toy pellet gun, but had removed the orange safety tip, according to Cleveland.com. The safety tip serves to differentiate a toy gun from a real one.

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