Judge approves $6 million settlement in Tamir Rice Case - But no admission of wrongdoing in Murder of Black Child w/ Toy Gun in Pocket

What Did the White Cops Think They Saw? When white Cleveland cops arrived information from the police radio run was not corroborated. 1) No "guy" or grown man was present - only a 12 yr old child. 2) There were no people around - the child was alone. So no ongoing emergency existed. 3) No gun was visible - apparently the toy gun was in the child's pants and out of site when police arrived = so no legal basis to stop, seize or use force.

In the context of White American domination there is no innocent Black male, just Black male criminals who have not yet been detected, apprehended or convicted. Their mere presence inspires in White Americans, fears of being assaulted, raped, robbed, or some other indefinable dread of being criminally victimized.[MORE]  "A mind that is filled with belief is a mind which can project anything according to the belief." When these frightened Cleveland white cops heard the radio run & saw Tamir Rice their racist minds must have got carried away. Their thoughts clouded with smoke - they could no longer physically see or hear things as they were. Their minds blocked it. [MORE] and [MORE]

From [HERE] A judge for the Cuyahoga County Probate Court in Ohio approved a settlement on Wednesday in which the city of Cleveland will pay $6 million to the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black child who was shot and killed by a white police officer in a recreation center in November 2014. The parties reached the settlement in April, but it required the approval of a probate judge. The police officer, Timothy Loehmann, and his partner Frank Garmback were dispatched to investigate an emergency call about a "guy with a gun." Last December, a grand jury failed to indict the officers. Under the terms of the settlement, the city made no admission of wrongdoing.

The boy had an airsoft gun that shoots nonlethal plastic pellets when a rookie white officer shot him at a Cleveland playground.

Surveillance video released by police shows Rice being shot less than two seconds after the patrol car stopped near him. Officer Timothy Loehmann told the boy to put his hands up, but he didn't comply, according to police.

According to police,he reached for a gun in his waistband. The toy gun was in his waistband -- that is he was not holding in it. [MORE] The police chief said there was no confrontation between the boy and the cops and he did not threaten the officers with the gun or otherwise. See video above.  In other words, when the cops arrived no crime was being committed in their presence and no visible danger was present. As such, there was no legal basis to order him to stop or to pull out their loaded weapons and point them at him in the first place. When they arrive they see a Black kid, alone. [MORE]