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About 50 people gather for Tamir Rice protest
“While the grand jury and the prosecutor have spoken, there remains a multitude of fundamental, unanswered questions”.
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“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. But the caller also said it could be a juvenile and the gun might be a fake.
In fact, last June, Ronald Adrine, Presiding Judge of Cleveland Municipal Court, after reviewing the video gave an advisory opinion that there was probable cause to charge Officer Loehman with murder, manslaughter, reckless and negligent homicide and dereliction of duty and to charge Officer Frank Garmback who drove the squad vehicle with the same charges except murder.
In explaining the decision, Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said it was “indisputable” that the boy was drawing the pistol from his waistband when he was gunned down.
A grand jury on Monday declined to criminally indict the two officers in Tamir’s killing in November 2014.
With the decision that the Cleveland police officers involved in the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice will not be indicted, social justice activists are taking to social media to keep their demands for the officers to face trial alive.
Yelling, “Shut it down” and “no justice no peace”, and other chants, the protesters were detoured and found themselves walking in downtown Cleveland where most of the area was blocked off by the police.
SB 227 only prohibits grand juries from being impaneled in such cases, which would force the prosecution to go a preliminary hearing route if they wish to charge officers – however, the decision to charge officers could be made internally.
But the issue of the grand jury only takes us part way there.
Frank Garmback, the training officer who drove the cruiser that day, and Timothy Loehmann, the officer who shot Tamir, might have acted differently if they’d been given that information, said Michael Maloney, Garmback’s attorney.
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. The average reaction time of officers is 1.5 seconds. Rice was shot and killed over a year ago, and the details of the case are readily available. “They chased down and fired at the vehicle 137 times, killing two occupants who turned out to be unarmed”.
“Simply put, given this flawless storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police”, McGinty said.
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The irony of this case is that Timothy Loehmann was not cut out for police work, with neither the temperament nor the maturity to be a police officer, and yet his response in this case was a textbook case of a lawful justified shooting.