We're not supposed to question juries. They're our peers. They put in long hours, working hard essentially for free. Most of all, they see all the evidence. We don't. We have to assume that they know what they're doing.
Sometimes, however, a jury verdict relies on so many false assumptions, baseless assignments of privilege and twisted logic that you have to call it out. The decision of a Cleveland grand jury not to indict the cop who shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice to death is one such time.
Rice was playing outside his apartment building with a toy gun when a nosy neighbor took it upon himself to do the one thing you should never do in America unless you're absolutely certain there is no other option: call the police. Rice, the caller told 911, was "probably a juvenile" and that the gun was "probably fake." According to the Cleveland police, 911 dispatch didn't relay that information to the two officers who responded, amped up and loaded for bear. Officer Timothy Loehmann blew Rice away between 1.5 and 2.0 seconds after arriving at the scene.