Calm urged after OH grand jury doesn’t indict officers

Lexington, South Carolina (CNN)GOP presidential hopeful Jeb Bush, weighing in on the decision not to indict police officers in last year’s shooting of Tamir Rice, said a grand jury has made a decision and that “the process worked”.

We demand that Cleveland police officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback be indicted for the murder of Tamir Rice.

It showed the 12-year-old black boy was drawing what turned out to be a pellet gun from his waistband when he was shot, McGinty said.

“Simply put, given this flawless storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police”, Cuyahoga County Justice Centre Prosecutor Tim McGinty said.

“We’re working with local law enforcement and doing everything we can, including working with community leaders, to try to get beyond this”.

“What you are about to see here in Cleveland, you’ve never seen this before”, said activist Basheer Jones today at a press conference. The decision drew calls on social media for protests around the country and a special prosecutor days after another fatal shooting by Chicago police of two black residents increased pressure on that department and Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

The case has spurred a deep mistrust of police and other officials by the black community in Cleveland. The first of those questions is why the dispatcher failed to pass along to the responding officer essential details that the suspect was likely a juvenile, possibly waving a toy gun. On Monday, prosecutors said a grand jury concluded that the officer reasonably believed that it was a real gun and that his life was in danger. “Praying for the family of #TamirRice 12 years old shot within 2 seconds by Cleveland police while holding a toy gun that the caller identified as a toy”. Though Cleveland police said the city is safe, officers will take aggressive action if necessary. The officers are white and Rice was black. It accused McGinty of “abusing and manipulating the grand jury process to orchestrate a vote against indictment”.

Jackson met with reporters in City Hall the day after the grand jury decision was announced. And it was not until later they realized he was a 12-year-old boy, they said.

But he said it was not unreasonable for the officer to fear for his life.

Rice’s family lawyer has said the video should be damning enough to warrant criminal charges, but McGinty argued that the officers were misinformed leading up to the shooting. “And we’re doing what we can to ensure that nothing like that happens again”, he added.