As Twitchy reported, the City of Cleveland has reached a settlement where it will pay the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old shot and killed by a trainee police officer, $6 million over two years. As part of the settlement, the city admits no fault in Rice’s death.
Also today, the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association issued a statement to the media expressing its hope that the Rice family would use some of the $6 million “to help educate the youth of Cleveland in the dangers associated with the mishandling of both real and facsimile firearms.”
Too soon?
You have got to be kidding me. BUT YOU AREN'T. https://t.co/D7c5ZturZP pic.twitter.com/Vj3LWc2ho0
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) April 25, 2016
Shorter Cleveland Police Union: "I hope you use this settlement from us shooting your son dead to teach kids how to not get shot dead."
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) April 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/ChuckGamble1968/status/724701168501399553
@chrisgeidner @AnaMardoll nothing about better training/screening officers. Just, 'black kids need to be careful what toys they have.'
— Aaron W (@AaronWhitrock) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner Can they really be this horrible? They can't, can they?
— Aggie (@ThxForAllDaFish) April 25, 2016
.@chrisgeidner @darrensands They have lost their everlovin' minds. Go preach to the school shooters, mass shooters, criminals, and the NRA.
— Bijan C. Bayne (@bijancbayne) April 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/DoghouseDano/status/724702587467882496
@chrisgeidner @SharkFu They can take their own funds and/or time and educate people or request Gov't to do same.
— Robert Brown (@truthtold8) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner @JesseLaGreca this is disgusting
— firedupandreadytogo (@Firedup2020) April 25, 2016
@narents @chrisgeidner it truly is. Like it was the little boys fault somehow that a trigger happy cop shot him in 2 seconds for nothing
— Full Boar Socialism (@JesseLaGreca) April 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/NerdyWonka/status/724736337908105216
@chrisgeidner @EtotheNev But this makes zero sense. As if it's the kid's fault that the police are racist.
— daniel (@dnlrntr) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner Between this goon and Piers Morgan, I just don't want to hear from any more straight white men today.
— Benjamin Dreyer (@BCDreyer) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner Unreal. I cannot even grasp how they think it is OK to offer advice on what to do with the money, let alone the actual advice.
— Kristen M. Ploetz (@KristenPloetz) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner What a vile and disgusting statement coming from Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association. Nobody's falling for it, either.
— JOBoomr (@JOBoomr) April 25, 2016
https://twitter.com/CplxSimplicity/status/724707011905114117
@chrisgeidner @smoothkobra Anybody who saw that video of cops jumping out of the car and shooting that child instantly knows what bs this is
— Rectangle (@Molybdenum45) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner I simply can't with this. Unbelievable!
— ✨Athena44✨ (@MonroeG5) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner literally zero people asked for their opinion on what the Rice family should do with the settlement money. ZERO
— Veronique (@VeroniqueEtc) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner Now, they want the Rice family money. Unreal
— B.T. Samuel. (@JustBeaTee) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner Hope who ever approved this goes to a special hell.
— Mackdiva (@terriadele) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner I keep pinching myself. This has GOT to be a dream. NOBODY is this damn stupid.
— (((Hope's Yañkee Jewboy))) (@bwsqrd) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner this letter would have been reviewed and approved by multiple people. Shocked that NO ONE stopped it
— Craig Shreve (@ShreveyWonder) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner FUCK THE POLICE
— 1upclock ??️? (@1upclock) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner Maybe @CLEpolice should educate their police officers about the dangers of possessing a real firearm.
— Schrödinger's Canadian. Sorry, not sorry. (@CannibalHoliday) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner this is how they talk to ppl who lost their child ? no respect for his humanity
— Wareegleey (@coldnomadd) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner That's one of the most heinous and despicable things I've ever read.
— Donna Jones (@withdiamonds1) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner I've been searching for an adjective to describe this, and all I have is "evil."
— Stephen Martin (@screevo) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner How about they don't shoot every black person they see.
— Suzanne Lemire (@lemire_suzanne) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner It sounds like the Anglo- grievance dog whistle in a bitter key.
— pjkool (@pjkool) April 25, 2016
Instead of telling Rice family how to spend money from CPD cops killing their son, how about empathy. Doesn't cost anything. @chrisgeidner
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) April 26, 2016
@chrisgeidner maybe they should teach cops to get out of their car and give a child a chance to drop their toy guns before they shoot them
— Bill Nagorski (@BNagorski) April 26, 2016
@chrisgeidner And this again, is the reason for the Black Lives Matter Movement. #BlackLivesMatter
— Sandra Kearns (@Kearns_SL) April 25, 2016
@chrisgeidner @Kestrel101 ah yes, the clear dangers of playing with a toy in a park. As a child.
— Wittgenstein's Monster (@ohgodscrewthis) April 26, 2016
https://twitter.com/celestepewter/status/724711449919119360
The death of a child is tragic, and the timing and content of the CPPA’s letter is highly questionable, but rarely mentioned in media reports is the claim that the friend who traded the air pistol to Rice told police that the gun had malfunctioned, and after taking it apart and reassembling it, he was unable to get the “orange tip” (a highly visible indicator that the gun was a toy) back on. Someone should step up and teach children, if nothing else, not to tamper with that safety tip.
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