CLEVELAND: US police officers shot dead a 12-year-old black boy carrying a replica gun within seconds of their patrol car arriving on the scene, a surveillance video released Wednesday showed.

The sudden end to the incident has stoked anger at police tactics in the United States, in the wake of rioting triggered by a decision not to prosecute a white officer who killed an unarmed black teenager.

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