Saudi- Ohio grand jury clears cop in fatal shooting of boy

To grow up black and male in such a place is to live a highly circumscribed life, hemmed in by forces that deny your humanity and conspire to kill you.

Regardless of what the grand jury in Cuyahoga County believed about Tamir’s death on November 22, 2014, “it should not have happened”, Jackson said at a news conference Tuesday. But the 911 call taker didn’t relay that information to the dispatcher who gave the officers their high-priority radio assignment for what is known in police parlance as a “gun run”. The grand jury first met in October. A handful of protesters braved the cold winds and rain because they knew what we all knew: that it was over as soon as Loehmann pulled the trigger.

Activists have said they’re planning a protest outside the Justice Center on Tuesday afternoon. Barricades were set up outside a Cleveland courthouse in case of protests, and about two dozen people gathered in the cold rain at the recreation center where Tamir was shot, some holding signs with photos of the boy and others killed by police in the U.S. He added that it was apparent to him that McGinty was being as transparent as he possibly could be, so nobody “could come back at him and say he withheld any evidence”. The officers are white and Rice was black.

The officers were responding to a report of a man waving and pointing a gun at people, but they later learned that the weapon Tamir carried that day was a replica firearm that shoots non-lethal pellets.

In the wake of other police shootings, including the 2014 death of Laquan McDonald in Chicago, there have been calls for better police training and more community outreach by police.

Mayor Frank Jackson said that now that the criminal process has concluded, an administrative review would no begin. “Even though video shows the police shooting Tamir in less than one second, Prosecutor McGinty hired so-called expert witnesses to try to exonerate the officers and tell the grand jury their conduct was reasonable and justified”. “‘Tamir’s family is saddened and disappointed by this outcome but not surprised” family attorneys said in a statement.

But the mayor did say the county prosecutor did not go through “due process”, but through “a process” before the grand jury handed down its decision.

“There never has been any justice in these police murders”, he said. In a statement released on behalf of both officers by Loehmann’s lawyer Monday, they said they were grateful for the grand jury’s “thorough review of the facts” and hadn’t spoken earlier because it would have been “prejudicial and irresponsible”.