Cleveland police to review Tamir Rice shooting

About 100 protesters marched through the streets of Cleveland Tuesday, calling for Prosecutor Timothy McGinty’s resignation and Timothy Loehmann’s badge.

“A reasonable officer would position themselves where they would have some space between themselves and the potential threat where they could have some time and cover”, Gilbert said. We will continue to fight for justice for him, and for all families who must live with the pain that we live with.

About 50 people are marching peacefully in front of the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in downtown Cleveland to protest a grand jury’s decision not to indict two white Cleveland police officers in the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old boy who was playing with a pellet gun.

“The circumstances in which this 12-year-old boy was killed in two seconds doesn’t even warrant a trial. We are dying like flies”, said Gaida Kambon, Secretary General of the African People’s Socialist Party (the Uhurus’ full name).

Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson acknowledged it had been a “long, troubling, trying year” for the city, and especially for Rice’s family, and pledged that a police administrative review of the incident would move forward.

The sheriff’s deputy who killed Lopez in October 2013 said that the barrel of Lopez’s toy gun moved towards him and another officer when Lopez turned around, after the deputy shouted at him to drop the weapon.

“We went [to Cleveland] for the one-year anniversary”, said Tahia Sykes, one of the group’s organizers.

“People are upset, and legitimately and rightfully so”, Jackson said.

The mayor and Cleveland’s police chief say they won’t question the reasoning behind the grand jury decision or why the prosecutor recommended no charges be brought. That officer, Erick Gelhaus, didn’t face any criminal charges . Loehmann shot Rice within seconds of arriving at the park in response to a report of a suspect with a gun.

“My family and I are in pain and devastated by the non-indictment of officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback for the murder of our beloved Tamir”.

Mr Loehmann’s lawyer, Henry Hilow, said the officer carries a heavy burden.

OBS and Dream Defenders were involved in creating the Hands Up Coalition, an organization that takes its name for the myth that spread after the Mike Brown shooting, in which it was falsely claimed the Brown put his hands up before being shot by a police officer. There was a grand jury, in which-instead of deciding if there was enough evidence to indict-McGinty did the opposite and began a campaign of publicly citing reasons to ease the pressure after the decision to not indict. “We just want to make sure that protests don’t slip into something that sets everybody back”.