A body of local activists with the Black Lives Matter movement held a demonstration Tuesday downtown in reaction to the latest news in the case of officers accused of killing Tamir Rice. On Monday, prosecutors said a grand jury concluded that Loehmann reasonably believed that it was a real gun and that his life was in danger.
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Frustration over the decision not to indict a police officer involved in the shooting death of a 12-year-old Cleveland boy spilled into the streets of Cincinnati on Tuesday.
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“They said the conflict is that we work with police officers, but we have indicted police officers before”, McGinty said, noting that in 2014 his office indicted several officers involved in the 2012 Cleveland police chase and shooting. The incident was a “perfect storm of human error, mistakes and communications” that did not reach the point of criminality, prosecutor Tim McGinty said Monday.
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Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Meyer said it was “extremely difficult” to tell the difference between the pellet gun and a real one. Patrolman Timothy Loehmann shot Tamir Rice within two seconds after confronting the child near a community centre November 2014.
McGinty said Loehmann was justified in firing: “He had reason to fear for his life”.
Family and friends sit and listen to kinds words being spoke during a memorial set up for Tamir Rice during the memorial ceremony for Tamir Rice, at the Mt. Sinai Baptist CHurch in Cleveland on Wednesday, December 3, 2014.
Brickner described instances in which people of color are “subjected to violence, profiling and other unconstitutional practices”.
“It’s incredibly hard for the government to prove civil rights violations in police shootings because you have to prove that an officer meant to kill someone”, Angel Harris, an assistant counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, told Mic.
“Praying for the family of #TamirRice 12 years old shot within 2 seconds by Cleveland police while holding a toy gun that the caller identified as a toy”. The transcript of the 911 call about Rice, especially, paints a picture of a dispatcher who not only fails to home in on key details, but is also low-key into vigilante justice.
Tamir was carrying a borrowed airsoft gun that looked like a real gun but shot nonlethal plastic pellets. It was missing its telltale orange tip. “The grand jury process is secret”. He added that it was apparent to him that McGinty was being as transparent as he possibly could be, so nobody “could come back at him and say he withheld any evidence”. And he said Tamir was big for his age – 5-foot-7 and 175 pounds, with a men’s XL jacket and size-36 trousers – and could have easily passed for someone much older.
“I think there’s a lot of systematic racism here and in many other cities”, said Thurman Wenzel, who also participated in the march and the rally on Tuesday night.
In a statement, Tamir’s family said it was “saddened and disappointed by this outcome – but not surprised”.
“It is unheard of, and highly improper, for a prosecutor to hire “experts” to try to exonerate the targets of a grand jury investigation”. Family members are urging peaceful protests, while renewing their requests for the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct its own investigation.
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The Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association said it was pleased by what it called the grand jury’s “thoughtful decision”.
