Media Needs to Stop Trying to Link Ferguson and Cleveland Shootings: Both Are Tragic Enough Without the Political Machine in Liberal Media Trying to Make Matters Worse

On the heels of the violence in Ferguson, a report of a young boy with a fake gun being shot by police in Cleveland moved into the 24-hour news cycle, and almost immediately CNN and MSNBC and other liberal outlets started to link the Ferguson violence with the tragic shooting in Cleveland.

One has nothing to do with the other.   They’re two separate and unique situations.

If ANYONE is waving a real-looking pistol around in front of police and not following police instructions, they’re going to get shot, regardless of what their skin color is.   It doesn’t help that the boy’s toy gun had the bright colored toy identifier pulled out of the barrel, which made it look much more real.

How long will it be before Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton show up in Cleveland, doing their race baiting routine again?  They didn’t help matters at all in Ferguson, and backed the wrong side again.

What Jackson and Sharpton should be doing in Cleveland and around the country is going after toy makers for making such realistic looking handgun toys.   Toys need to look like toys, and not like a real gun. 

If one takes the plastic out of the barrel, the gun below looks real…the cops can’t take a chance that something that looks like this is fake…they’re going to open fire, as they did in Cleveland.

Contrast the above photo to the one below.  The above toy needs lots of green and orange like this one does:

Nerf has the right idea.  Simply putting a plastic piece into the barrel isn’t enough.  That’s what the focus should be in Cleveland, but it’s going to be a race thing.