Anti-racists fight on as Tamir death cops avoid charges

McGinty claimed the police shooting should be blamed on a “perfect storm of human error”.

“Tamir Rice’s death was a heartbreaking tragedy and I understand how this decision will leave many people asking themselves if justice was served”, he said in a statement.

Surveillance video showed Cleveland police officers shoot Tamir in a matter of seconds of their arrival in front of a Cleveland recreation center previous year.

A fake handgun taken from 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot by Cleveland police.

It was not until after the shooting, with the gun on the ground, that police learned the boy was playing with a replica firearm that shoot nonlethal plastic pellets. It was missing its telltale orange tip.

“I do not have a comment on what the grand jury did”, he said.

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 about 175 lbs.

In the wake of other police shootings, including the 2014 death of Laquan McDonald in Chicago, there have been calls for better police training and more community outreach by police.

“There have been lessons learned already”. “And we’re doing what we can to ensure that nothing like that happens again”, he added. It was announced that the Cleveland police department is putting dashboard cameras in every auto and equipping officers with bodycams. Demonstrators chanted, “no justice, no peace”, before calling out the names of black men and women who lost their lives at the hands of police use of force. 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.

Following the long-awaited announcement, the Rice’s attorney, Subodh Chandra, said that the family was “saddened and disappointed” but definitely not “surprised” by the outcome.

The grand jury had been hearing evidence and testimony since mid-October.

Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County prosecutor Tim McGinty says his office was required ethically to tell the grand jury they didn’t think a conviction was likely.

The Department of Justice is still conducting its own investigation of the incident.

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.

The case has spurred a deep mistrust of police and other officials by the black community in Cleveland.

“She has been cheated twice, first by the loss of her boy and second by the prosecutor”, Chandra said of Rice’s mother, Samaria Rice.

“People want to imagine that this is somehow different, but it’s not.” said Brown.

Mr Loehmann shot Rice twice after the boy pulled the gun from his waistband.

The caller finished the conversation by reiterating he did not know if the gun was real.