Activists marched in Cleveland on Tuesday afternoon to protest the police shooting last year of a 12-year-old black boy named Tamir Rice, and a grand jury’s decision on Monday not to indict the officers involved.
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He was carrying what turned out to be a pellet gun when officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed him.
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Tamir’s family, which has filed a civil lawsuit in his death, has asked the US Justice Department to review Mr McGinty’s handling of the grand jury, which they believe was manipulated to exonerate the officers, attorney Subodh Chandra said.
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More than two dozen Billings residents joined in on a a candlelight vigil Tuesday night to honor an OH boy shot and killed by a police officer November 2014.
“And has the value of the lives of our children been reduced to a decision made in less than two seconds?”
AP reported a statement from Rice’s family said they were saddened and disappointed by the outcome – but not surprised.
“Simply put, given this ideal storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police”, McGinty said. “Talking to the adults who are familiar with the grand jury system in Cauhayoga County, there’s an old joke out that the grand jury will indict an ant for being an insect”.
“It certainly was unique, the way they went about it. It was unusual”, says Judge Ronald B. Adrine, a municipal court judge in Cleveland. But Kasich called for cooler heads to prevail in the wake of the grand jury’s decision.
Samaria Rice, the mother of the 12-year-old boy who was shot by a police officer.
In detailing the decision not to bring charges, McGinty said police radio personnel contributed to the tragedy by failing to pass along the “all-important fact” that the 911 caller said the gunman was probably a youngster and the gun probably wasn’t real.
“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.
Surveillance video showed Tamir was fatally shot within seconds of the patrol auto arriving on the scene as he began to pull the toy gun out of his waistband.
If Tamir Rice would have been a white boy in a middle class suburb, he would still be alive, the New York Times wrote in an editorial. We urge the Justice Department to lead a swift and thorough investigation of the Cleveland police department and to bring justice to Tamir’s family, friends and community. He also ignored petitions signed by over 60,000 people to charge the police and did not acknowledge receipt of a letter from over 100 prominent public officials, clergy, labor and community leaders sponsoring the petition.
“We knew that ethically there couldn’t be a trial in this case”, McGinty told cleveland.com (http://bit.ly/1RRpVXd ).
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“A reasonable officer would position themselves where they would have some space between themselves and the potential threat, where they could have some time and cover”, Gilbert said.
