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City ready for protests over Tamir Rice shooting

NASHUA, New Hampshire (CNN) – John Kasich declined to weigh in Tuesday on a grand jury’s decision to not indict police officers in last year’s shooting of an unarmed 12-year-old boy in Cleveland. After this investigation-which took over a year to unfold-and Prosecutor McGinty’s mishandling of this case, we no longer trust the local criminal-justice system, which we view as corrupt.

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As part of the state’s response, Kasich said officials are preparing to review police dispatching to find ways to improve communication between dispatchers and officers in the field.


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But experts say the “perfect storm” that Timothy McGinty, Cuyahoga County prosecutor, blamed for the December 2014 killing of Tamir Rice was, in fact, due less to tragic happenstance and more to concrete factors.


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A judge had recommended in June that there was probable cause to charge the officers, but independent reports ordered by McGinty’s office and released in October found that officer Timothy Loehmann was justified in shooting Rice.

12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot by a Cleveland police officer November 22, 2014 in the playground area of the Cudell Recreation Center.

It was a presser you might see a defense attorney give.

Stephen Roberts, who ran the DeKalb County grand jury for two years during his tenure as an assistant DA, has a good idea how the grand jury process works. Having committed this obvious a dereliction of duty and then crowing about it, McGinty should resign immediately. McGinty is a symptom of a structural problem that won’t be solved with his departure either now or next year, should he be voted out.

The group gathered at the 1898 Memorial Park in Wilmington and said they wanted to show support and solidarity for Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, and others who have not yet received justice.

Both our police and justice system utterly failed Rice, as well as many other black individuals who have suffered similar fates.

It’s not unheard of.

Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams said on Tuesday an administrative committee, which includes civilians, will start the review from scratch, beginning with the initial calls to police.

TAMIR Rice was just 12 when he was shot down by police in Cleveland, Ohio.

“I’m going to have the same conversations about race with my children that my mother had with me”, said Welbeck, an African-American studies professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, who is in his early 30s.

“It is unheard of, and highly improper, for a prosecutor to hire “experts” to try to exonerate the targets of a grand jury investigation”, it added. “I pray and hope that the federal government will investigate this case”. That’s despite plans to push the state towards allowing college students to openly carry guns on campus, and to allow anyone to carry a gun in public without a permit.

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This should take precedence over band-aid solutions to police violence such as body cameras, particularly given that footage of Tamir’s shooting showed an ostensibly criminal action.

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