Cleveland opens administrative review of Tamir Rice shooting

“Sure, sure. It’s fine for everybody to take a look at this”, Kasich said when asked about a request from the boy’s family for an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Loehmann, an officer-in-training, shot 12-year-old Tamir on November 22, 2014, as the boy pulled out what was later found to be a toy gun.

But unlike protests in Baltimore or Ferguson, Missouri, Clevelanders who rallied against the grand jury decision have, so far, remained peaceful.

It was not until after the shooting, with the gun on the ground, that police learned that the boy, Tamir Rice, was playing with a replica firearm that shoots nonlethal plastic pellets, the lawyers said on Tuesday.

The man known as King James wields a great deal of influence in his home state of OH, and those who feel betrayed by the judicial system are calling for Lebron James to put his season on hold with the Cleveland Cavaliers until police are held accountable.

Steve Loomis, president of Cleveland’s largest police union, said the organization was pleased with the grand jury’s finding but added the decision “is no cause for celebration, and there will be none”.

The attorney for Loehmann, Henry Hilow, said critics have created a national dialogue about the shooting that don’t match the facts about what the officers knew. The incident was a “perfect storm of human error, mistakes and communications” that did not reach the point of criminality, prosecutor Tim McGinty said Monday.

“Prosecutor McGinty deliberately sabotaged the case, never advocating for my son, and acting instead like the police officers’ defense attorney”, the statement said.

McGinty said Officer Loehmann was justified in opening fire because “he had reason to fear for his life”.

Cleveland police chief Calvin Williams answers questions as mayor Frank Jackson watches during a news conference in Cleveland, Monday, Dec. 28, 2015.

A rookie patrolman fatally shot Tamir within two seconds of a police cruiser driven by another officer skidding to a stop near him.

Numerous Twitter users cited African-American athletes of the 1960s such as boxer Muhammad Ali, who forfeited his world heavyweight championship and accepted a ban from boxing – which lasted until it was overturned by the Supreme Court in 1971 after four years – and risked prison rather than allow himself to be drafted into the Vietnam War. Loehmann and his partner had responded to a 911 call about a man waving a gun.

The family is suing the city.

Family and friends sit and listen to kinds words being spoke during a memorial set up for Tamir Rice during the memorial ceremony for Tamir Rice, at the Mt. Sinai Baptist CHurch in Cleveland on Wednesday, December 3, 2014. On Monday evening two dozen protesters escorted by police cars walked 3 miles (5 km) in freezing rain from the recreation center to the station where the officers were assigned chanting “Indict convict and send the kler cops to jail the whole damn system is guilty as hell.’ A notice taped to the door said the station was closed”.