"Javier Ortiz, the president of Miami’s police union, thinks Tamir Rice got what was coming to him. According to the Miami New Times, he tweeted a screenshot of Rice with the caption, “act like a thug and you’ll be treated like one.”
His comment calls to mind those made by current and former heads of the Cleveland union, which represents the officers responsible for Rice’s death.Former boss Jeffrey Follmer previously said on MSNBC that Rice was an imminent lethal threat who might have survived had he listened to police commands—even though the 12-year-old boy was given less than one second to react to purely hypothetical orders before he was fired upon.
Current boss Steve Loomis had even worse things to say: he called Rice “menacing.”
“He wasn’t that little kid you’re seeing in pictures,” he told POLITICO. "Tamir Rice is in the wrong.”
All three union leaders place the blame squarely on Rice’s shoulders, although they fail to explain what he could have done differently in the moment to avoid being killed... "
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