Fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio

Family attorney Subodh Chandra said Samaria Rice wept for much of the day after Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty’s announcement that Loehmann and Garmback wouldn’t be charged. He blamed the shooting on a “perfect storm” of human error and miscommunication. At this moment, activists are coming from all across the country to march and walk with us, protest. In New York’s Washington Square, in Greenwich Village, protesters gathered to voice their opposition to the decision. We can not help but wonder whether Tamir Rice would still be alive today if he had been a white child, still big for his age, playing with the same pellet gun in a different neighborhood.

“There are people who probably will try to go into Cleveland who don’t live in Cleveland”, he also said.

A grand jury on Monday declined to bring criminal charges against the officers in the death of Rice, who was brandishing a replica gun in a park before an officer shot him, drawing a protest on Tuesday afternoon in downtown Cleveland. He said the dispatcher’s failure to provide the information about the “fake gun” was key to the case.

Maloney said Garmback was relieved by the grand jury’s decision, which Tamir’s family has condemned.

Bush has previously been critical of President Obama’s administration and the US attorney general for getting involved in local matters and “politicizing” cases involving police shootings.

Mayor Frank Jackson said that now that the criminal process has concluded, an administrative review would no begin.

“For me, I’ve always been a guy who’s took pride in knowledge of every situation I’ve ever spoke on”, James said Tuesday night. These are my fellow Americans, and I believe that all children are all our children – but when I read about Tamir Rice, Cameron Tillman, or Aiyana Stanley-Jones, I run into the wall of my own skin. McGinty said Tamir was trying to hand the weapon over to police or to show them it wasn’t real, but the officers had no way of knowing that.

Gov. John Kasich called Tamir’s death a “heartbreaking tragedy”.

Two Democratic state lawmakers in OH said Wednesday they plan to propose legislation that would require at least two outside law enforcement officials to conduct investigations when a police officer uses deadly force.

A judge had recommended in June that there was probable cause to charge the officers, but independent reports ordered by McGinty’s office and released in October found that officer Timothy Loehmann was justified in shooting Rice.

The author, Ari Melber, is critical of McGinty for seeking a non-indictment, and taking a defense oriented position — rather than presenting neutral evidence for consideration.

Protesters ignored police orders to stay to the right of double yellow lines in the middle of the road, and at times refused to follow the route that officers blocked off for them. And do it in the name of Tamir Rice.