Gabrielle Union got involved in a heated Twitter debate with fans over 12-year-old cop shooting victim Tamir Rice on Wednesday. The
43-year-old actress referred to her own rape as a 19-year-old while
slamming people who attempted to place blame on the child for getting
shot. The
schoolboy was gunned down by police in a Cleveland park while playing
with a replica gun, two seconds after they arrived in response to a 911
call.
One of the latest lines used to justify
the officer's reaction was that the boy was 'big for his age' - which
drew an angry tweet from the Bring It On actress. Union - who was raped while working at a
Payless ShoeSource when she was just 19 - immediately recognised the
trend of victim-blaming, and made an eye-opening point about her own
sexual assault.
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