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Attorney Terry Gilbert represented the family of one of the victims and earlier this year won a $5.5 million verdict against the city over the killing of a man by an off-duty Cleveland officer.

Surveillance video showed Rice was fatally shot within seconds of the patrol vehicle arriving on the scene as he began to pull the toy gun out of his waistband. “When they act for the safety of the community, they’re vilified for it”.

On Sunday morning, Antonio LeGrier called police to respond to his son, who suffered from mental illness and was banging on a door with a baseball bat.

The initial caller who contacted the police told the 911 dispatcher that he thought Rice’s gun was a toy, and that he believed Rice to be a juvenile – information that was never passed on to the responding officers.

Graphic photos of dead children posted online by Sonny Bill Williams would never have been published by the organisation he was acting as ambassador for, a Unicef spokeswoman has said.

CLEVELAND (AP) – Despite the grand jury decision not to charge a white patrolman in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, the case is far from over for the city of Cleveland, the officers involved in the shooting, or the black boy’s grief-stricken family.

“Specifically, we will examine a number of issues related to the Chicago Police Department’s use of force, including its use of deadly force, racial, ethnic and other disparities in its use of force”, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch told the press.

But the OH governor argued that protesters need to have their voices heard and said he thought the U.S. Department of Justice’s continued investigation into the death of Tamir Rice was appropriate.

Tamir’s family charged that McGinty improperly hired use of-force experts to tell the grand jury that Loehmann’s actions were reasonable.

But advocates for what’s known as crisis intervention team training say Chicago’s program has been “starved” of resources, with only about 15 percent of officers completing the 40-hour course. It offered condolences in the shooting of Jones, who lived on...

Ishaq Hassan was shot by security forces on Thursday shortly after swimming into Egyptian waters from Gaza Strip.

Protesters took to the streets in NY and Cleveland after it was revealed a grand jury would not indict a police officer over the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

Grieving relatives and friends of two people shot and killed by Chicago police said Sunday the slayings raised concerns about why officers “shoot first and ask questions later”, saying the city failed residents even as a… He and Adam intend to file a wrongful...

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

Jones and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, were killed early Saturday by police responding to a domestic d…