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Coalition Calls For Civil Unrest in Tamir Rice Case

As his sister raced to his side, the officers restrained her in handcuffs and held her in the police auto as she watched her brother bleed on the snow just outside.

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The latest of events to stoke the simmering outrage among social justice advocates over police killings of unarmed African-Americans was a grand jury’s decision Monday not to indict the officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice on a Cleveland playground. The protest ended at the Horseshoe Casino at 9 p.m.


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The grand jury concluded that the officer and his partner reasonably believed that it was a real gun and that their lives were in danger, prosecutors said. “He needs to be out of office”, community activist Basheer Jones told a news conference that included religious leaders and the president of the Cleveland NAACP.


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Jeb Bush appeared to confuse Chicago and Cleveland when he was asked about the Tamir Rice shooting and communities grappling with police violence after a meet and greet at Hudson’s Smokehouse BBQ in Lexington, SC.

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Several people spoke in front of the crowd, speaking on messages of love and a change in approach to situations. “That memory will never go away”.

A grand jury announced on Monday that no criminal charges would be brought in the November 2014 shooting of Tamir while he had what turned out to be a pellet gun. A judge ultimately acquitted the patrolman of manslaughter.

The mayor, along with the police chief, said that the city is prepared for protests, acknowledging them as part of the healing process, NBC notes. He said Tamir reached for his waistband and that he saw a gun and fired to protect himself and Garmback.

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Case Western Reserve University law professor Lewis Katz said the city would be vulnerable in the federal lawsuit filed by Tamir’s family because of the failure of the 911 call taker to pass on key information – namely, that the caller said the gunman was probably a juvenile and the gun probably wasn’t real. Life and death decisions are made every day by police officers across the country, but the benefit of the doubt is often given in the preservation of white lives while the presumption of guilt, dangerousness and suspicion, time after time, is reserved for black lives.

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