Protesters rallied in Washington Square Park and marched across the Brooklyn Bridge Monday night, after a grand jury declined to indict the officers involved in the shooting that killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland last year.
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Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty described the boy’s death as a “perfect storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day”.
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It was the video, however, that revealed “it is now indisputable that Tamir was drawing his gun from his waist as the police auto slid toward him”, McGinty said, although even he concedes the child may well have been trying to turn the gun over.
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Meanwhile, Black Lives Matter activists started gathering in front of the courthouse, where barricades had been set up.
And in case any doubt remained about his commitment to the officers’ cause, McGinty released a third report in November, complete with a frame-by-frame analysis of the shooting.
Rice was carrying a plastic airsoft gun that shot nonlethal plastic projectiles and was a replica of an actual firearm.
– Someone had removed an orange tip to the gun that would have identified it as a toy.
The Grand Jury has decided not to indict.
McGinty said he also recommended that no charges be filed. Loehmann and Garmback also said in their statements they were concerned the armed suspect might enter the recreation center.
The gun was in the waistband of Tamir’s trousers. The prosecutor did not take any questions from the press, but he really didn’t have to; he had already said all he wanted to.
Attorneys representing Tamir Rice’s family said they will appeal to the Department of Justice.
Among other things, the Cleveland police department is putting dashboard cameras in every vehicle and equipping officers with bodycams.
“Tamir’s family is saddened and disappointed by this outcome but not surprised”, said one of the family’s lawyers, Sasha Ginzberg.
The way Prosecutor McGinty has mishandled the grand jury process has compounded the grief of this family.
The Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association said in a statement, “While we will always have the utmost respect for the Criminal Justice system, we are pleased in the Grand Jury’s thoughtful decision”.
The family renewed its request for the Department of Justice to step in and conduct “a real investigation”.
Rice’s family – who have denounced the judicial proceedings, saying that they were created to exculpate the officers – have sued the city of Cleveland and both policemen for the boy’s death.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of OH said it will continue its independent review of the case to “determine what actions are appropriate, given the strict burdens and requirements imposed by applicable federal civil rights laws”.
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Rashad Robinson, executive director of ColorOfChange, one of the largest online civil rights organizations, said in a statement that the decision shows that Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty, “doesn’t honor Black life or seek to hold officers accountable”. “I saw the weapon in his hands coming out of his waistband, and the threat to my partner and myself was real and active”. I pray that our citizens will follow the words and non-violent actions of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: “We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline”. Most likely, a big factor was the testimony of a police conduct expert commissioned by the OH prosecutor.
