Police Gunned Down A 12-Year-Old And Somehow Local News Decided To Run This Story

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Demonstrators block Public Square Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Cleveland, during a protest over the weekend police shooting of Tamir Rice. The 12-year-old, who was playing with a toy gun in a city park, was fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer Saturday. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) | ASSOCIATED PRESS

Last weekend, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was killed by a Cleveland police officerresponding to a 911 call. The caller was concerned about the young black boy who appeared to be handling a gun at a park. The firearm, it turned out, was only an Airsoft pellet gun — and although the orange plastic ring indicating it wasn’t an actual weapon had been removed, the caller did say the gun was “probably fake.” But that detail was apparently not relayed to responding officers, who shot Tamir twice in the torso just seconds after they arrived at the scene. Tamir died later at a hospital.
On Tuesday, police officials announced that they planned to release video of the incident. The next day, Tamir’s family and members of the community, still reeling from the boy’s death as well as the recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, awoke to this headline from the Northeast Ohio Media Group instead:
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