On Tuesday, about 50 people marched peacefully in front of the county courthouse in downtown Cleveland to protest the grand jury decision. “Our streets.” Officers blocked them from entering a divided highway and they sat down, blocking a major intersection.
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McGinty told the press on Monday that surveillance video showed Tamir Rice reaching into his waistband for a toy gun.
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The Rice shooting came just days before a grand jury opted not to indict a white police officer who fatally shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in the St Louis, Missouri, suburb of Ferguson in August 2014. “Tamir Rice would likely be alive today if he had not been black”.
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Shortly after McGinty announced there would be no charges in the case, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH) released a statement saying in part hat the case was, “an indictment against Prosecutor McGinty whose handling of this case in my opinion tainted the outcome”.
The former Florida governor initially confused the case with another high profile police shooting case in Chicago when he was asked about Rice. “No mother should feel the way that Tamir Rice’s mother feels right now”. The officers say they believed the gun was real when they arrived on scene. Pooley claims Mould, who was white, then “continued going toward the officers, at which time one of the officers did fire at least two rounds at the suspect”. Even for this country, there’s a too-muchness to it. This week, after a grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Timothy Loehmann for Rice’s 2014 death, I chose to try.
A police dispatcher had failed to tell them that the person who called to complain about Rice brandishing a gun had said he believed it was a toy.
Rookie officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed Rice after he and training officer Frank Garmback responded to a 911 call from dispatch about a young individual waving a gun around and pointing it at people outside a recreation center.
The group is also asking for the Mayor’s office to review how the city handles arbitration with the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association. Okay. Let adults have real weapons and ammunition, which they must keep out of the hands of children, and let them be trained to use those weapons properly.
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They forget that Loehman had several more seconds to observe Rice’s actions as the squad auto approached Rice; police cars do have windows, after all, and his view of Rice’s actions did not begin the moment the squad vehicle door opened.
