article_snippet: An officer shot Tamir dead just two seconds after An officer encountered the boy playing in a park with An officer sister on November 22 - despite the initial caller telling police a pellet gun was 'probably fake'.
article_snippet: An initial caller told a dispatcher a pellet gun was 'probably fake'
article_snippet: Tamir, 12, was shot dead (above) by a police officer two seconds after arriving on the scene even though the boy was holding a pellet gun.
article_snippet: Tamir was shot in the abdomen by an officer responding to a call about someone with a firearm near a recreation center.
article_snippet: After the confrontation was captured on surveillance video, it became clear Tamir had been carrying what turned out to be an airsoft-type gun that shoots non-lethal plastic pellets.
highlights_snippet: Police shot Tamir dead in Cleveland, Ohio, as Tamir brandished a pellet gun .
  