The expert also found that the 12-year-old's toy gun was not visible to either Loehmann or his partner, Frank Garmback, the report notes. And contrary to findings by experts hired by the lawyers for the police department, Loehmann shot Tamir less than a second after exiting the patrol car, not 1.7 seconds.
"I saw the weapon in his hands coming out of his waistband and the threat to my partner and myself was real and active."
Lawyers for Tamir Rice's family have released two outside reports that call his shooting "unreasonable and unjustified."
Roland Martin talks to Attorneys Walter Madison and Ben Crump about the lack of justice in Cleveland in light of nearing the one year anniversary…
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“I am very disappointed in the way Timothy McGinty is handling this investigation,“ said Samaria Rice, the mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice who was shot last winter by police officers while playing with a pellet gun. Samaria is publicly demanding that the head of the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, Timothy McGinty, “…step down and allow […]
Indianapolis police fatally shot a 15-year-old boy who they accuse of accelerating a car towards them.
It is powerful to see the mothers of these slain sons standing together.
County prosecutors have said that a grand jury will decide if the charges will be filed.
Municipal Court Judge Ronald Adrine ruled there’s probable cause to charge rookie officer Timothy Loehmann with murder, involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide or dereliction of duty. Enough evidence does exist to charge two officers in the fatal shooting of 12 year old Tamir Rice who was holding a pellet gun outside a recreation center. The judge […]
Roland Martin talks to Walter Madison, one of the lawyers for Tamir Rice’s family about the Cleveland 8, a group of citizens in Ohio…
