They said Jones was killed by accident and extended condolences. The officers were called to the scene after someone called 911, saying that someone, “probably a juvenile” was playing with a gun that was, “probably fake”.
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He said it was not unreasonable for the officers to fear for their lives.
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Following a grand jury’s decision not to indict officers involved in Rice’s death, Payne asserted that criticism of the shooting was contributing to the so-called “Ferguson effect”.
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“There have been lessons learned already”.
McGinty said that the shooting death of Rice did not meet the standard of a crime. It turned out to be a pellet gun.
The family renewed its demand for the US Justice Department to conduct “a real investigation” into the incident.
McGinty urged those who disagree with the grand jury decision to react peacefully, and said: “It is time for the community and all of us to start to heal”.
Prosecutors say there’s no way they could have known that. “What they don’t have a right to do is to do violence to people or property”.
The grand jury has been hearing testimony since October about the fatal shooting of Tamir by police past year.
Steve Loomis, the head of Cleveland’s largest police union, said the organisation was pleased with the grand jury’s finding but added the decision “is no cause for celebration, and there will be none”. The 12-year-old had been holding a toy gun when he was shot by police officer Timothy Loehmann within two seconds of the officer’s arrival.
Next to the gazebo in the Cudell neighborhood where Tamir Rice was shot, a few dozen marchers including Kevin Latimer chanted in the cold drizzle on their way to the Justice Center downtown. “She was broken up”. These are the sort of “experts” we would expect the officer’s criminal-defense attorney to hire-not the prosecutor.
Rice’s size has been a point of contention in this case-the 12-year-old was large for his age, standing at 5-foot-7 and weighing in around 175 lbs.
Rice’s family has filed a civil lawsuit over his death.
She also said, “It’s a very somber day here in Cleveland and it’s also a really disappointing day for a family, for the city, for activists in a community throughout the country who have consistently advocated for children, for people to be safe in this country”. Meyer says a dispatcher didn’t relay that to the officers. The Rice family felt otherwise and accused McGinty of “abusing and manipulating the grant jury process to orchestrate a [grand jury] vote against indictment”, according to a statement.
“It should never happen again, and the city has taken steps so it doesn’t, ” McGinty said.
A Grand Jury decided not to indict the officers Monday.
Prosecutors said in a report released Monday that the gun Tamir was carrying – at the top and right – was “functionally identical” to the real one pictured at the bottom left. Cleveland has a long record of police misconduct subject to multiple and serial federal investigations. The prosecutor said that he talked to Rice’s mother about the decision before Monday’s public announcement, calling it a “tough conversation”.
A video of the shooting captured by a surveillance camera provoked outrage nationally and made Tamir a central figure in a protest movement over police killings.
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The replica handgun taken from 12-year-old Tamir Rice is displayed after a November 2014 news conference in Cleveland. They said they ordered Rice to drop the weapon before Loehmann fired. A concerned onlooker called 911 and reported seeing someone with a gun at the playground.
