#blacklivesmatter explanation

[RavenSky]

Yes, but their mistake is their responsibility because Crawford was not trying to fool anyone nor was he acting in a suspicious manner.

While he didn't intend to fool anyone he did intend to play with the gun. That action would reasonably be expected to fool people (after all, the gun was designed to look real) and it did exactly what one would expect. Unfortunately he fooled someone who felt threatened and had the means to stop the threat.

Are you suggesting that it would be perfectly ok for someone to shoot you dead because you examining a hunting knife at a store, and they got scared?

If he had not fooled the officers they would not have shot him.

The people near him saw where the gun came from and knew it wasn't real. Those without the benefit of seeing this didn't know it wasn't real and were fooled.

A man walking through WalMart carrying WalMart merchandise isn't fooling anyone. He's going to the checkout. Had he been carrying a a box of Cap'n Crunch, no one would have believed him about to about to breakfast someone to death. And no one else who saw him with the toy thought he was about to pull a Columbine.

Bigots see what they want to see and their victims can do nothing to make them see otherwise.

Nobody would have been fooled if he carried the gun in it's box. The problem was him taking it out and playing with it.

There you go making up your own facts again to make the black man look as bad as possible! Produce a link to the source for your claim that John Crawford took the toy out of the box.

 

[laughing dog]

While he didn't intend to fool anyone he did intend to play with the gun. That action would reasonably be expected to fool people (after all, the gun was designed to look real) and it did exactly what one would expect.

That action would reasonably be expected to fool fools. But for some reason, you think that absolves the fools for rushing to a wrong conclusion and then acting on that wrong conclusion.

Unfortunately he fooled someone who felt threatened and had the means to stop the threat.

No. Some bigoted fool felt threatened and he called the police who then over-reacted and killed Crawford.