Last month a police officer in Cleveland shot and killed a 12-year-old boy named Tamir Rice, who was armed only with a toy gun and playing outside a rec center.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the officer who shot him "had been deemed unfit for duty at a previous police department," but somehow still found his way onto the Cleveland PD.

Perhaps it was a better fit: An investigation by the US Department of Justice has found that Cleveland cops "engage in excessive force far too often, and that the use of excessive force by CPD officers is neither isolated, nor sporadic."

The officer's father told the Washington Post that his son "loved the action" that came with working in a violent area of Cleveland. So much so that he created some for himself?