Protests took place in Cleveland over the weekend following the announcement from Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty that the grand jury would not indict the two officers involved in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Nov. 2014.
McGinty said in a statement last Monday, “The state must be able to show that the officers acted outside the constitutional boundaries set forth by the Supreme Court of these United States. Simply put, given this perfect storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct of police.”
On Nov. 22, 2014, a man made a 911 call to report a Black male with a gun on a playground. Officers Timothy Loehmann (who was still in his probationary period) and Frank Garmback responded to the call. The police cruiser pulled up to Rice, and Loehmann immediately exited the vehicle and gunned Rice down. The officers did not call for medical assistance for the 12-year-old for nearly four minutes after the shooting.
