Attorneys representing the family of Tamir Rice have released two expert reports, calling the fatal shooting of the 12-year-old boy just over a year ago by Cleveland Police “objectively unreasonable”.
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Late Saturday, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty released an analysis and timeline breaking down surveillance video into 326 photographs from before and after the shooting.
The enhancement by a video expert will be presented to a grand jury that will decide if Loehmann or his field training officer should be charged criminally for Tamir’s death.
Saturday’s release of the enhancement comes the same day that attorneys for the boy’s family asked the prosecutor to allow their use-of-force experts to testify before the grand jury.
Tamir had an airsoft gun outside the Cudell Recreation Center, which authorities say was indistinguishable from a deadly firearm.
Noble added that Loehmann shouldn’t have been hired by Cleveland Police in the first place, and that Loehmann and Garmback showed a “callous disregard” for Tamir’s life by not administering first aid.
The family’s experts said bad police tactics led to Tamir’s death.
But we hope the grand jury will weigh all of the evidence.
A consultant notes that police should have better assessed the situation back on November 22, 2014.
On Monday Rice’s family will testify and the two officers will give their testimony in the next few weeks.
The reports contradict two others released by McGinty’s office last month that concluded the two cops, Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, acted reasonably.
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Jeffrey Noble, deputy chief of the Irvine and Westminster, Calif., police departments, and Robert Clark, a retired Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy chief, called Rice’s shooting unjustified, unreasonable and inconsistent with police practices.
