What’s next in Tamir Rice case?

“He had reason to fear for his life”.

Two Cleveland police officers won’t be charged in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

Particularly relevant to the Tamir Rice case: “Black 13-year-olds were miscategorized as adults by police officers (average age error 4.59 years)”.

Patrolman Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, his training partner, went to respond a call in November 2014 about a gun-waving man near a city park.

McGinty said an enhanced security camera video showed Rice was reaching for the gun, which shoots plastic pellets, when the squad vehicle pulled up next to him. Typically there is a warning on the packaging indicating that removing the orange tip of the gun “is risky, may cause confusion, may be mistaken to be a real firearm by law enforcement officers or others and may be a crime”. Yesterday’s grand jury decision follows a series of similar non-indictments in the police-related deaths of people of color, including Eric Garner in Staten Island, and Michael Brown in Ferguson.

The caller said the gun may not be real and the perpetrator could be a juvenile.

Twelve-year-old Tamir stood five-foot-seven, weighed 175 pounds and wore a men’s XL jacket. Meyer said a dispatcher didn’t relay that to the officers.

“There have been lessons learned already”.

Rice’s family attorneys said they are renewing their request for the Department of Justice to conduct an investigation into the shooting. The settlement was prompted largely by a vehicle chase that ended with the killing of a couple in a 137-shot barrage of police gunfire.

“Whether they agree with the grand jury decision, we are moving ahead with our process”, Jackson said. They also accused the prosecutor of hiring expert witnesses in an attempt to exonerate the officers by making the Grand Jury believe their actions were “reasonable and justified”. The grand jury reviewed all these points and gave judgment in favor of the police officers.

The family renewed its demand for the US Justice Department to conduct “a real investigation” into the incident. They said they ordered Rice to drop the weapon before Loehmann fired.

Tamir’s family has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the two officers and the city.

Mr McGinty said it was a “tough conversation” with Tamir’s mother when she was told there would be no charges.

“As the video shows, Officer Loehmann shot my son in less than a second”, Rice continued. Then, he comes out, his face as mournful as old purple and about as honest as your average swampland entrepreneur, and talks about what a “perfect storm” of tragedy this whole case was. The close proximity heightened the tension when the boy turned to approach the cruiser.

“He could not follow simple directions, could not communicate clear thoughts nor recollections, and his handgun performance was dismal”, according to the letter written by Deputy Chief Jim Polak of the Independence police. “Therefore, they must react quickly to any threat”. But there were no arrests and it remained peaceful.

Within hours of the Cuyahoga County announcement in OH, word of the protest in New York City, which was organized by activist group NYC Rise Up 4 Tamir, had spread through social media, replacing a scheduled protest for People’s Monday, a weekly demonstration in Grand Central Terminal held to bring attention to victims of police brutality.