The comments from Display Name, though, rough and emotional are uninformed. First of all the Open Carry laws would not allow a person to wave around a gun and point it at people as Tamir was doing. That person would have met the same result, if they had acted the same as Tamir.In hindsight, we know he was a young boy, yes we know it was a toy, and he was probably frightened when the police pulled up on him. That is why he went to pull the gun from his waistband, to show it was not real. Unfortunately, none of this was known to the policemen arriving on the scene. Many things went wrong. But the one thing that would have changed the outcome of this, was Tamir pointing a very real looking gun at people. If that doesn't happen, he's still alive.
Watch the NBC video. The timing of the audio in which Tamir's sister is screaming "you killed my baby brother" does not match what is shown when the video focuses on the shooting scene. Tamir's sister showed up on scene about a minute after he was shot and it took approximately 2 minutes to get her into the squad car. During that time, according to the security video, only one other officer arrived on scene to help out. The fire department arrived on scene maybe another 4 minutes after. In the NBC video, which was only a minute and a half long, The rescue squad and a larger police presence is already on the scene. The audio is obviously doctored to make it seem like the person taking the video was recording Tamir's sister as she was running to Tamir.
First of all, I thought the point of the new video was to show how the police lied about not knowing that the person running up to the scene was Tamir's sister. Once the video finally focused on the scene, she was already in the squad car, which if you timed it up to the security video, there was no chance for the police to ascertain that this really was Tamir's sister. And from the hysterical nature of the screaming, no police would have allowed her to get near the scene. That being said, though, the rest of what happened is a tragedy that could have been avoided if any of the errors in judgement in the actions of the police or from Tamir did not happen. I wish I could be on the grand jury.
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