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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Fri Jan 8, 2016, 12:09 PM Jan 2016

"...Raise your kids not to play with fake guns stupid bitch..."

Cleveland school police officer has been placed on paid administrative leave after a local news station started asking about a Facebook post calling the mother of Tamir Rice a “stupid b*tch.”

Rice, a 12-year-old Cleveland boy, was shot and killed last year while playing with a toy gun by police officer Timothy Loehmann. Prosecutors last week declined to file charges against him. Two days after the decision was announced,Cleveland Metropolitan School District officer Matt Cicero posted the comments to his Facebook page, according to NewsNet5.

Cicero patrolled the school district Rice attended.

The page has since been deleted, but NewsNet took screen shots of the comments, errors included:

Tamir rices momma just want money. Lets make the proper changes……raise your kids not to play with fake guns stupid bitch. All this media because the are notgetting what they want…… Again pleeeeze anyone who does not like what I post…..unfriendly me or block me your not worth my time

Cicero responded to a Facebook friend who said the child didn’t deserve to die for simply playing with a toy by saying, “You pull out a gun you get shot. I don’t have time to ask questions and coddle kids that wave guns around.”

When asked about the post this week by NewsNet, Cicero wouldn’t comment.

Cleveland City Councilman Jeff Johnson said Cicero should be fired.

“It’s disrespectful to women, it’s disrespectful to African-Americans,” he said. “The fact that he’s so insensitive and he’s placing the blame of Tamir’s death on Tamir, for me that’s enough for him to be not working with children in the Cleveland school system.”

Cleveland Metropolitan School District spokeswoman Roseann Canfora called Cicero’s statements insensitive.

“While we respect every employee’s right to freedom of speech, with those rights comes a responsibility to do so in ways that are appropriate and sensitive to others, particularly to the people we serve,” she wrote in a statement to NewsNet.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/cleveland-school-officer-to-tamir-rices-mom-raise-your-kids-not-to-play-with-fake-guns-stupid-btch/

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/investigations/cmsd-resource-officer-under-investigation-after-newschannel-5-asks-about-his-tamir-rice-comments

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"...Raise your kids not to play with fake guns stupid bitch..." (Original Post) Blue_Tires Jan 2016 OP
AGain, reverse all this and millions of people would be getting shot and beaten right now randys1 Jan 2016 #1
Open carry is legal in OH to begin with... blackspade Jan 2016 #2
Well, technically it is legal for Black people to open carry in OH, but they really randys1 Jan 2016 #3
Technically....until a cop shows up and shoots them with no warning or cause. blackspade Jan 2016 #4

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. AGain, reverse all this and millions of people would be getting shot and beaten right now
Fri Jan 8, 2016, 12:24 PM
Jan 2016

white folks would NOT tolerate this shit for one minute

If you were killing our kids for NO fucking reason then MOCKING us and telling us it is OUR fault

Fuck, this whole god damn country would be in flames

COUNT ON IT



The AMAZING patience and reason the AfAm communities display in the face of RABID racism and DAILY death.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
2. Open carry is legal in OH to begin with...
Fri Jan 8, 2016, 02:18 PM
Jan 2016

So there was no just cause to question or shoot Rice to begin with.
He was killed because he was black and cops are racist assholes.

randys1

(16,286 posts)
3. Well, technically it is legal for Black people to open carry in OH, but they really
Fri Jan 8, 2016, 02:22 PM
Jan 2016

arent supposed to, and they know that.

I have run out of sarcastic ways to point out what a rabidly racist country we live in.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
4. Technically....until a cop shows up and shoots them with no warning or cause.
Fri Jan 8, 2016, 04:32 PM
Jan 2016

I think the racism has only escalated among the hard core right....unfortunately the breeding ground for cop recruits.

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