 This would only be important if Tamir had a chance to pull out the toy and if the officers had time to see it and to assess whether it looked lethal. If you shoot someone before they have a chance to resist or to pull a weapon or to issue a threat, are you really killing them because you feel threatened? What then could you be threatened by seeing a 12-year-old boy, black boy, standing in front of you? And so here's a poem, Airsoft.