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Tamir Rice Supporters Protest for Change

Cleveland’s grand jury found a way-just yesterday, they declined to indict officer Timothy Loehmann, who shot Rice seconds after seeing him with a toy gun.

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The removal of Timothy McGinty as prosecutor for Cuyahoga County; and in the event that is not forthcoming, we will work for the defeat of Timothy McGinty at the polls and bring to an end his reign of bias and failure to protect the rights of victims. The Rice family has a “good case”, Gilbert said.


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On Tuesday afternoon, the protestors held hands and chanted slogans for more than an hour at a Cleveland intersection as night fell including “The circle shall not be broken”. Now, Rice’s family has learned that they won’t be getting any justice over the death of their boy.

“We knew that ethically there couldn’t be a trial in this case”, McGinty told cleveland.com (http://bit.ly/1RRpVXd ).

The attorney for Loehmann, Henry Hilow, said critics have created a national dialogue about the shooting that don’t match the facts about what the officers knew.

In the latest incident to raise hackles, police in Chicago responding to a domestic dispute on Sunday shot dead a young black man who was allegedly holding a baseball bat as he came down the stairs and also killed his neighbor, a mother of five who had answered the door.

McGinty said Officer Loehmann was justified in opening fire because “he had reason to fear for his life”. “That memory will never go away”.

In August, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 227, authored by state Senator Holly J. Mitchell, which eliminates the use of a criminal grand jury to investigate cases where a member of law enforcement is alleged to have caused the death of a suspect, either by a shooting or by use of excessive force.

“People are very upset about it and I believe legitimately and rightfully so”, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said of Rice’s shooting and other police-involved incidents around the United States.

Cleveland’s reputation has suffered because of some well-publicised police shootings.

“In a time in which a nonindictment for two police officers who have killed an unarmed black child is business as usual, we mourn for Tamir, and for all of the black people who have been killed by the police without justice”.

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“It would be irresponsible and unreasonable if the law required a police officer to wait and see if the gun was real”, McGinty told reporters.

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