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A grand jury declined to indict a white rookie police officer in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, a black youngster who was shot while playing with what turned out to be a pellet gun, a prosecutor said Monday.
Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said it was "indisputable" that the boy was gunned down while drawing the pistol from his waistband — either to hand the weapon over to police or to show them it wasn't real. But McGinty said the officer and his partner had no way of knowing that.
"Simply put, given this perfect storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police," McGinty said. He said patrolman Timothy Loehmann was justified in opening fire: "He had reason to fear for his life."
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-tamir-rice-grand-jury-20151228-story.html
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Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said it was "indisputable" that the boy was gunned down while drawing the pistol from his waistband — either to hand the weapon over to police or to show them it wasn't real. But McGinty said the officer and his partner had no way of knowing that.
"Simply put, given this perfect storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police," McGinty said. He said patrolman Timothy Loehmann was justified in opening fire: "He had reason to fear for his life."
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-tamir-rice-grand-jury-20151228-story.html
Justice served again...