Hillary Clinton Tweets message of support to loved ones of Tamir Rice

Two recently released reports on the legality of the fatal 2014 Cleveland police shooting of Tamir Rice-a 12-year-old black child-say nothing unexpected.

The report cites experts who analyzed the shooting death of Tamir by a Cleveland police officer on November 22, 2014. “Officer Loehmann’s belief that Rice posed a threat of serious physical harm or death was objectively reasonable as was his response to that perceived threat”.

Although the investigation will continue, and a grand jury will ultimately decide on charges, a few believe that those reports, which were commissioned and released by the prosecutor’s office in Cuyahoga County, signal that an indictment is unlikely. We must take to the streets to demand that the police officer who murdered Tamir must face justice. He said courts do not consider an officer’s motive or bias, but rather whether the officer’s actions are “reasonable” based on the circumstances and what the officer knows at the time of the event.

No, I do not think all police officers are racists or at war with African-American boys or men. McGinty said his office was “not reaching any conclusions” from the reports and would present all evidence to a grand jury.

Spokespeople for McGinty did not return a request for comment on why Sims and Crawford were chosen for the task, and how much, if at all, they were paid. Sims wrote: “The officers did not create the violent situation”.

“The issue is, in short, could a reasonable police officer have believed Rice’s gun was a real firearm”, Sims wrote. The question is not whether every officer would have reacted the same way. “Police departments have to communicate that they understand the sanctity of life [and that] using deadly force is absolutely the last resort”.

Both reports also discuss specifics of police training, though Crawford states that the “sole purpose” of her report is to “review the use of deadly force by CPD Officer Timothy Loehmann from the perspective of the United States Constitution”.

In a past case of police use of deadly force, Crawford’s opinion was rejected by the Department of Justice for being outside the law, “overly protective of law enforcement” and going “too far to exonerate the use of force”.

“Shots fired. Male down”. The shot went through a door and killed Weaver’s wife, Vicki, after the Weavers and a friend fled into their home following an earlier exchange of gunfire. “He’s dead. And he’ll never come home”, Madison said.

“He sees irrational behavior of a suspect, at that time”, Savage said. After several years of legal wrangling, the case was dropped by Idaho prosecutors.

Rice family attorney Subodh Chandra said the expert reports show that the prosecutor’s office is trying to avoid accountability, according to the Associated Press.

“Ms Rice has always been wary of the prosecutor but gave him the benefit of the doubt”, he said.

Meantime, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is expressing support for the Rice family. “And this is one more reason why everybody who wants to stop the terror police spread in Black and Latino neighborhoods has to be in New York City for #RiseUpOctober”. In addition, we need to look at these practices more broadly than we often do.