昨天，**者**在时代广场和大中央航站楼，**手无寸铁的黑人埃里克·加纳被纽约警方掐死，或者更具体地说，**没有对负责的警官提出任何指控。上周，我们得知枪**无寸铁黑人少年迈克尔·布朗的圣路易斯警官没有被起诉。犹他州的警察将不会因为枪杀达里安·亨特而面临指控，达里安·亨特是一名黑人，他在玩装饰剑时被杀。杀害约翰·克劳福德的警察也不会因为携带玩具**而开枪。对泰米尔·赖斯（Tamir Rice）一案的调查仍在进行中，他是一名12岁的黑人克利夫兰（Cleveland）少年，去年11月下旬也因携带一把玩具枪被警察误认为是真的而被枪杀。

其中一个最愤世嫉俗的建议是，黑人父母需要教育他们的孩子害怕警察，生活在无辜的错误会带来致命后果的不断危险之中。这个建议通常是讽刺的，或者至少是悲伤的。但据圣路易斯县警方乐于助人的社交媒体团队称，这几乎是一目了然。

今天早些时候，圣路易斯县警察局的官方网站链接到了其辖区的Facebook更新，一个关于塔米尔·赖斯的PSA，标题是“孩子们会是孩子吗？”这篇文章的其余部分和它尴尬的随意标题一样糟糕：它是确保警察不会开枪打死你的孩子的指南“这篇文章不是关于这个，一个男孩失去了他的生命，这是否是一个合理的射击，还是警察行动太快，”这篇文章说这是关于芬顿辖区让居民意识到一个热门话题，并从这起事件中吸取教训。”

在任何其他情况下，警察都没有理由不让父母告诉他们的孩子不要摘下标记子弹枪为假武器的橙色安全帽，或者说他们不应该在城市范围内开枪。或者警告他们，如果不清楚枪是假的，警方可能会接到报警。理论上，即使是这样的事情也可以：

If the type of gun is in question by the witness, the Police will respond as though it is a real gun until it can be confirmed one way or the other. ... The police will respond lights and sirens and come to a screeching halt in the area where your child is playing with the gun. Here are some tips to help your child respond appropriately. Do not run away. They need to no longer have the gun in their hands, throw it away from them. They need to comply with officers' instructi***. ... Clear communication between your child and the police is essential.

但现在，“像真枪一样回应”（或剑）意味着几乎是立即的致命力量。当塔米尔·赖斯家人的一位朋友问警察为什么不尝试使用***时，他被告知“我们没有受过射杀他人腿部的训练”。这让人痛心地蔑视更大的社会环境，在这种环境下，警察有更大的使用武力的自由，他们不太可能为致命的错误承担任何法律后果，而且似乎不成比例地在几乎没有或根本没有挑衅的情况下杀死黑人，不管是什么原因。最重要的是，它来自一个关于警察**的争论的中心。

圣路易斯县芬顿市警察局的Facebook页面就像一份现代社区通讯，包括慈善活动的信息和一张“两只小鹿在我们警察局附近长大”的照片。不幸的是，它正在向全世界分发，而曾经不恰当的一段话，最终却指责孩子们在糟糕的现状下表现得不完美。

毫不奇怪，tweet和Facebook的帖子都被删除了，不过你可以在下面看到后者。下午晚些时候，警察局长乔恩·贝尔马（Jon Belmar）发表了一份道歉声明，称他的办公室直到声明发布后才知道，并改变了社交媒体政策，以防止今后出现错误。”他写道：“我向塔米尔的家人和任何被帖子冒犯的人道歉。”帖子传达了这样一个信息：我的警官在接到涉及持枪儿童的电话时，态度轻率，对生命漠不关心。我想强调的是，我的军官们以敏锐的眼光回**唤，并对人的生命给予最高的尊重。我们训练军官在作出使用武力的决定时考虑到所有事实和情况。”

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On November 22nd 2014, a Cleveland Police Officer shot 12 year old Tamir Rice who had his hand on an Airsoft pistol. The Airsoft pistol had the orange warning tip removed. I do not know all the details of the story; I encourage you to research reliable resources and educated yourself about the incident. This article is not about this a boy losing his life, whether this was a justified shooting or, whether the cops acted too fast. This is about the Fenton Precinct making residents aware of a "hot" topic and learning from this incident so Fenton never loses a child’s life. If you or your children have an Airsoft or pellet gun please sit them down and talk to them about this tragedy. Your children should have rules for "toy" guns that mirror the rules of a real weapon. Pellet guns and Airsoft guns should not be allowed to be played with throughout the neighborhood, common grounds, or used to threaten or intimidate people. Pellet guns have no orange warning tip because they are c***idered weap***; Airsoft guns do have orange tip. Please inspect your child’s Airsoft gun to make sure the orange tip has not been altered or removed. These guns are very realistic.

Pellet gun laws are the same as any weapon in the City of Fenton. Children cannot carry a weapon and they cannot shoot this weapon within the city limits. Airsoft guns are c***idered toys, but city ordinance prohibits the "shooting of any projectile within the city limits". Warn them that these "toys" do look like real guns and could result in the police getting called on them. The police may get called to respond to "a child with a gun", "maybe a toy gun", it is important to know how officers are trained to respond. If the type of gun is in question by the witness, the Police will respond as though it is a real gun until it can be confirmed one way or the other. Remember if an Airsoft pistol is tucked in your pants like a holster then obviously the orange tip is no longer visible. The police will respond lights and sirens and come to a screeching halt in the area where your child is playing with the gun. Here are some tips to help your child respond appropriately. Do not run away. They need to no longer have the gun in their hands, throw it away from them. They need to comply with officers instructi***. They may be ordered to lie down on the ground. Clear communication between your child and the police is essential. Police need to know that it is a toy gun; I do hope I am explaining a scenario that will never happen in our area.

So again, "kids will be kids", and your children will continue playing war in the common grounds. Share this with your children; tell this story to families that might need this information, and encourage your kids to talk to clas**ates about this. Working together we will keep our community a safe place.

美国东部时间12月4日下午2:55更新：圣路易斯县警察局补充声明。