Early this morning, shortly before 9 a.m., someone with access to the St. Louis County Police Department City of Fenton Precinct penned this horribly ill-advised Facebook post chiming in on the Tamir Rice situation here in Cleveland. It has since been deleted, but here’s a screenshot of the buffoonery, courtesy of BuzzFeed. Yes, the screed begins with the deep thought of “Kids will be kids? (which is basically the real-life version of “Crime, boy, I don’t know.”)

This article appears in Dec 3-9, 2014.

Vince Grzegorek has been with Scene since 2007 and editor-in-chief since 2012. He previously worked at Discount Drug Mart and Texas Roadhouse.