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That has nothing to do with the situation. The kid was aiming a gun, as far as the police, community, and witnesses knew. No one knew it was a fake gun until the kid was dead.
If you, as a child did the same, you would almost certainly be dead. This is again the conflating of issues. Everyone knows that East Cleveland [[the worst part of Cleveland, and almost entirely black) has crazy gun violence, now they are shocked that police assumed that a kid pointing a gun to panicked onlookers in the middle of violence-infested East Cleveland was a potential threat.
Again, as with the other cases, if you primary aim is saving the lives of young black males, the issue is reducing the violence in the African American community. Then maybe the community center wouldn't be panicking, the cops wouldn't be scared, the 911 call wouldn't made, and the kid wouldn't be dead. But it's not reasonable to say the cops should just stand there and wait to be shot at just in case the gun wasn't real.
A kid playing has everything to do with the situation. That was the situation. A kid was playing, as many kids do, and was killed for it. There's no "almost certainly" about it. That's completely false.