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The community leaders spoke out at a press conference in Cleveland today after McGinty announced what most had suspected: That there would be no indictment of police officer Timothy Loehmann in the shooting death of 12 year old Tamir Rice.
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“The tragedy of Tamir Rice must be seen with unblinking clarity through the lens of a series of incidents of police misconduct committed by members of the Cleveland Police Department over years”.
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Despite the grand jury decision not to charge a white patrolman in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the case is far from over for the city of the Cleveland, the officers involved in the shooting or the black boy’s grief-stricken family.
Rice either meant to hand over the gun or show the officers it was not real McGinty said ‘but there was no way for the officers to know that.’ The Airsoft replica of a.45-caliber semiautomatic handgun usually has an orange tip on it but Rice’s gun did not.
Loehmann and his partner Frank Garmback believed they were responding to an “active shooter” in a crime-ridden park that has memorials to two police officers who had been shot dead nearby in the line of duty, McGinty said Monday. Knowledge of these details, however, did not sway the opinions of the grand jury or the prosecutor.
“While the grand jury and the prosecutor have spoken, there remains a multitude of fundamental, unanswered questions”. Spearheaded by Baltimore-based activist Tariq Touré, the campaign called on James to sit out upcoming Cavaliers games to put pressure on the Department of Justice to “imprison the murderers of Tamir Rice”.
“‘Tamir’s family is saddened and disappointed by this outcome but not surprised” family attorneys said in a statement.
McGinty said Officer Loehmann was justified in opening fire because “he had reason to fear for his life”.
A grainy surveillance-camera video of the boy’s November 2014 shooting provoked outrage nationally, and together with other killings of black people by police in places such as Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City, it helped fuel the Black Lives Matter movement. There were speakers from the community and clergy, expressing their frustration over the rise in deaths of black people by police.
The city settled a lawsuit brought by the victims’ families for a total of $US3 million in 2014, months before a criminal case involving one of the officers went to trial.
Regardless, Nelson continued, if Tamir was an adult and actually had a firearm, he would have been protected by Ohio’s open carry laws.
The officers were “frightened” and did not realize that Rice – who was tall for his age – was just a boy with a toy, McGinty said.
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