The task force is charged with developing minimum standards and best practices for police departments. Grand juries declined to indict the officers involved. It was deciding whether to indict Timothy Loehmann – the officer who shot Tamir – and his partner, Frank Garmback.
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‘Believing he (Loehmann) was about to be shot was a mistaken, yet reasonable belief given the high stakes circumstances… he had reason to fear for his life’.
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The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of OH said Monday that federal officials monitored the grand-jury process, and that the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division is conducting its own independent investigation into Tamir’s death.
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“There have been lessons learned already”. He called it a “perfect storm of human error”.
“It is indisputable that the difficulty distinguishing between a real and toy gun under the relatively calm circumstances of an office or courtroom become a functional impossibility for the officer confronted with a stressful, risky situation in the field”, the report continues.
Rice’s family attorneys said they are renewing their request for the Department of Justice to conduct an investigation into the shooting.
McGinty called Rice’s death “an absolute tragedy, but it was not, by the law that binds us, a crime”. “She was broken up, and it was very hard”, the prosecutor said. And it was not until later that they realized he was a 12-year-old boy, they said.
Their numbers had dropped to about 40 people as they marched along Cleveland streets chanting.
The grand jury had been hearing evidence and testimony since mid-October. According to report on the decision of the grand jury, even after careful comparison, it is hard for trained eyes to notice the difference.
Consider the brutalization of Tamir’s 14-year-old sister as her baby brother lay dying, the slanderous remarks Prosecutor McGinty has consistently made to the media, smearing Tamir’s family and joining the City of Cleveland in blaming the dead 12-year-old himself for his murder. Credit: Nation of Change ” It has been clear for months now that Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty was abusing and manipulating the grand jury process to orchestrate a vote against indictment”, the attorneys declared in a statement Monday afternoon. “The prosecutor is covering up his own mishandling of the process”.
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.
“It would have weighed in”, Maloney said. Tamir was carrying a borrowed airsoft gun that looks like an actual firearm but shoots nonlethal plastic pellets. It was missing the orange tip that is supposed to show that it is not a real weapon. He was also seen pointing the gun at other children. A concerned onlooker called 911 and reported seeing someone with a gun at the playground.
Then, Prosecutor McGinty allowed the police officers to take the oath and read prepared statements to the grand jury without answering any questions on cross-examination. That is the amount of time it took for one officer to decide whether Tamir Rice should die….less than two seconds.
Mayor Frank Jackson said Tuesday that it’s important to reassure the public that the internal review will based on the facts and that the outcome isn’t predetermined. Officer Garmback was also spared any charges. He said he wasn’t surprised by the grand jury decision. “All of this is created to better ensure that an incident like this will never happen again”.
The Cleveland, Ohio boy was shot twice while playing with a pellet gun in a park back in November 2014. But he says there’s no way the officers could have known that.
There was no immediate comment from Mr Loehmann after the decision.
Dispatchers failed to relay to officers that the person scaring people at the recreation center likely was a juvenile with a toy gun.
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A rookie patrolman fatally shot Tamir within two seconds of a police cruiser driven by another officer skidding to a stop near him.
