It's now illegal to buy, sell or own a cell phone case that looks like a firearm in Marion County.
If that sounds like a bad idea anyway, well, the Indianapolis City-County Council agrees. The council voted Monday night to approve Proposition 259 banning the cell phone accessories.
See this? Not in our City. Council votes to prohibit cell phone cases that look like guns. pic.twitter.com/WZV6QBMEnD
— Maggie A. Lewis (@MaggieALewis) September 15, 2015
The proposition states that the product can be "indistinguishable from a working handgun and could inadvertently result in the use of force by police."
The vote comes amid a national conversation about police use-of-force incidents, and in the wake of the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was killed in June by Cleveland police after allegedly waving a BB gun at officers.
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