Old Man with Shotgun vs 12 Year Old with Toy Pistol; Who Wins?

*For some reason the videos are not working, but I am trying to correct that. In the meantime, here are the links to them:

1. Police "talk" to man with shotgun
2. Tamir Rice - Tamir Rice shot by police

Even the ultimate, non-violent pacifist has to be getting angry at what’s going on now in our streets; they’ve got to be able to see that there is something seriously wrong in this country. 

A 12 year old boy carrying a toy pistol gets shot dead less than 30 seconds after the police arrive on the scene; an unarmed man repeatedly tells the police he can't breathe when they have him in an illegal chokehold but they don't pay attention, and consequently he dies; an unarmed teen-ager with a bag of candy in his hands is shot dead by a citizen, but the police do not arrest the man until public outcry forces them to (although he is acquitted at trial). Why are our children dying but no one is being held responsible for their deaths? Why are the killers not made to pay??

Something dreadful has happened in this country, and although I know that race plays a large part in it, that is not the whole problem. IMO the attitude of the police department itself is what the problem is. The police department has begun to feel that they are like the sheriffs of yesteryear, that they make the laws and can enforce them as they see fit. When this attitude is coupled with the stereotypical picture of blacks that a lot of them have, you end up with this huge disparity in the way people are treated. Cops don’t have a problem with old white men with shotguns, they have no fear of them. 

This is dreadful, mainly because of the difference in how this case was handled as opposed to how the case of Tamir Rice was handled. No one tried to talk to that little boy; he was 12 years old, you mean to tell me that these big strong policemen feared for their lives from a 12 year old child who wasn’t threatening them, or behaving like a gangbanger?? 

 The rookie of the pair claims he yelled at the child from the car before it stopped, telling him to put down the gun, but 2 seconds after the car stopped Tamir Rice was dead.

The officer talked to the old white man for 9 and ½ minutes, then walked over and picked up the rifle!! But no one can see the disparity between the ways we are treated….