Themiclesia wrote:Of all the people present, the police officer is trained to be the most qualified to judge for himself whether the gun was real or not; others are but amateurs. As a result, if the judgment happens to be wrong, as in this case, he is to blame.
I'm pretty well versed in firearms (including a 1911 similar to the airsoft gun that Tamir Rice had), and I saw a picture of the airsoft gun. Unless I had it in my hands and was closely examining it, I would have thought it was a real firearm as well.