After months of waiting for justice in the tragic murder of Tamir Rice, community leaders of Cleveland are taking matters into their own hands and going directly to a judge to press charges against officers Frank Garmback and Timothy Loehmann.
Just last week, the sheriff’s office announced that it found no evidence that a crime was committed in the fatal shooting of the twelve-year-old boy. Ordinarily, the next step would be to wait for the prosecutor’s office to examine these findings.
Instead, the community is invoking a law that allows charges to be filed directly at the hands of a judge. This uncommon law has seldom been enforced and has never resulted in an arrest in Ohio; however, it has never been attempted in such a high-profile case.
