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Michael Brown Shooting Case

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CLEVELAND - Two months post the infamous Michael Brown shooting spectacle, yet another teenage boy gets involved with police officials. Responding to a 911 call, police officers approached the 12-year-old-boy in Cleveland’s Cudell Recreation Center, who was said to be “sitting on a swing and pointing a gun at people.”
The 911 caller said the gun was "probably fake," then added, "I don 't know if it 's real or not." Deputy Chief Edward Tomba said Monday that he didn 't know whether that information was conferred with responding officers/The president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen 's Association has said the officers weren 't told the caller thought the gun might be fake.
The gun the boy was carrying was later found to be an Airsoft

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