New Expert Reports, Released by Rice Family Lawyers, Call Shooting Death of

Attorneys representing the family of Tamir Rice have released two expert reports, calling the fatal shooting of the 12-year-old boy just over a year ago by Cleveland Police “objectively unreasonable”.

In a statement, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty said the new footage was released in the “spirit of openness”.

Authorities say 12-year-old Tamir Rice was holding an airsoft pistol when an officer shot and killed him, thinking it was a real gun.

Loehmann and patrolman Frank Garmback were sent to a Cleveland recreation center after a man called 911 to report that a man was waving a gun and pointing it at people.

McGinty’s office also released over the weekend a new frame by frame analysis of footage from Cudell Recreation Center where Tamir Rice was shot.

Saturday’s release of the enhancement comes the same day that attorneys for the boy’s family asked the prosecutor to allow their use-of-force experts to testify before the grand jury.

McGinty, for his part, said it was his policy to welcome “all relevant evidence” and let the Grand Jury decide.

The Rice family still wants McGinty out of the process, and have continued to call for a Special Prosecutor in the case.

The situation stretches more than a year when Tamir was shot and killed by Cleveland officer Timothy Loehmann on November 22, 2014.

The reports, made public Saturday night, are at odds with three previous investigations commissioned by the prosecutor’s office that labeled the shooting as tragic but reasonable.

“The shooting of Tamir Rice was inconsistent with generally accepted standards and norms in police practices and … it was an unreasonable and unjustified use of deadly force”, reads a report written by law enforcement expert Roger Clark.

Garmback was driving, but Noble said Loehmann had a duty to object to what he called reckless “tactical decision making”.