Law Forum : 12-year-old Tamir Rice death by homicide - Justified - No True Bill

In the Spirit of Tamir Rice,




The police's story about the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice doesn't match the video


Cleveland Police officials told a different story about what happened to Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old shot and killed by a Cleveland Police officer over the weekend of November 22, than what's visible in the available video footage of the shooting.

MSNBC's Chris Hayes broke down some the discrepancies between the police's side of the story and what actually happened, and what can be seen in the video surveillance footage released by police a couple days after the shooting.

http://www.vox.com/2014/12/3/7326243/tamir-rice-police-contradictions






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Cleveland Cop in Toy Gun Killing Resigned From Previous Job After 'Dismal' Handgun Performance, According to Files


The Cleveland police officer under investigation for the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy last month resigned from his previous job as a police officer after his superiors determined he had emotional maturity issues, an inability to manage stress and “dismal” performance in firearms training, according to a 2012 personnel file made public Wednesday.

http://news.yahoo.com/cleveland-cop...vious-job-224232060--abc-news-topstories.html


(ABC News)

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Based on the below, the Grand Jury should render a True Bill in the Rice case, lets see Framily ...




Justice Department findings on Cleveland police


In a report Thursday, the U.S. Justice Department concluded Cleveland police officers too often violate people's civil rights because of inadequate training and a lack of supervision and accountability. Some of the findings:

— Officers fired guns at people who did not pose "an immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury to officers or others."

Read more
http://news.yahoo.com/justice-department-findings-cleveland-police-075058749.html



— The department is often antagonistic toward the community it serves. A large sign hanging in one station identified it as a "forward operating base," a war zone military term.

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Family of boy shot dead by Cleveland officer sues


CLEVELAND (AP) — The family of a 12-year-old who had a pellet gun when he was shot by a Cleveland police officer filed a wrongful death lawsuit Friday, saying two officers acted recklessly when they confronted the boy in a terrifying manner and fired within seconds.

The federal lawsuit filed against the city and the two officers also said the officers waited four minutes before anyone provided medical help to Tamir Rice after he was shot outside a city recreation center.

http://news.yahoo.com/city-settled-suit-vs-cleveland-officers-partner-165051481.html


This fake handgun taken from 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was fatally shot by Cleveland police over the weekend, is displayed after a news conference Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014. The 12-year-old was shot at a city park after he reportedly pulled the Colt 1911 replica on arriving officers. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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There have been so many Black unarmed deaths recently Framily, this is about Akai Gurley, shot in the stairwell by an Asian cop, supposedly by accident




NYPD shooting victim’s family: Stay away, Sharpton!



Akai Gurley's mother Sylvia PalmerPhoto: Paul Martinka

The family of police-shooting victim Akai Gurley had a message on Friday for the Rev. Al Sharpton: Keep your “circus” away from his funeral!

The blowhard opportunist muscled his way into the arrangements — and even put out press releases promising to deliver the eulogy — without ever consulting the family or offering to foot the bill.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/05/cop-shoot-victims-family-stay-away-sharpton/


Akai Gurley Photo: Facebook

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US protests turn violent after NY man killed by police buried





New York (AFP) - Police clashed with protesters in California on the fourth night of demonstrations across the United States against recent killings of African American suspects by white police in the United States.

Protesters in Berkeley, California, threw bricks, rocks and pipes at police, who fired tear gas and smoke canisters to quell the crowds.

Akai Gurley, 28, father of a two-year-old daughter, was killed when a police officer opened fire in a dimly lit staircase at a Brooklyn apartment building where he was walking with his girlfriend.

Friends and relatives filed past Gurley's open gray casket to pay their respects at the Brown Memorial Baptist Church, before the lid was closed and a huge spray of red and white flowers was placed on top of it.

http://news.yahoo.com/funeral-unarmed-man-shot-dead-ny-police-164508946.html


Akai Gurley's casket is carried into the Brown Memorial Baptist Church on December 5, 2014 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City (AFP Photo/Bryan Thomas)

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Mother of Cleveland Boy Shot by Police Says She's 'Looking for a Conviction'


Samaria Rice told ABC News in an exclusive interview that her 14-year-old daughter was tackled by police when she arrived at the scene of the shooting.

"I couldn't believe they tackled her and put her in handcuffs and in the back of the same police car that was on the grass that the officer got out of and shot her brother so my daughter is sitting there looking at her brother on the ground," Rice said this morning.

The mother of four has already filed a wrongful death lawsuit over Tamir's death but she said this morning that she wants "the police [to] be accountable for what they did to my son."

"I'm looking for a conviction for both of the officers," she said.

https://gma.yahoo.com/mother-clevel...s-looking-130014174--abc-news-topstories.html

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http://news.yahoo.com/video/boy-39-mother-details-scene-170228627.html


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Cleveland Cops 'Recklessly' Shot Boy, 12, Over Toy Gun, Suit Claims


The family of a 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer over a toy gun have filed a federal lawsuit claiming the officers "recklessly" shot the boy and then failed to give him immediate medical care.

The civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit was filed by an administrator for the estate of the boy, Tamir Rice.

Officer Timothy Loehmann, who fired the fatal shots, Loehmann's partner Officer Frank Garmback and the City of Cleveland are all named as defendants in the suit.

The suit accuses Loehmann and Garmback of acting "unreasonably, negligently, recklessly, wantonly, willfully, knowingly, intentionally, and with deliberate indifference to the safety and rights of Tamir Rice."

http://abcnews.go.com/US/cleveland-cops-recklessly-shot-boy-12-toy-gun/story?id=27402837

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Cleveland boy's death in police shooting declared homicide



REUTERS/Aaron Josefczyk

CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The death of a 12-year-old Cleveland boy fatally shot by police in November has been formally ruled a homicide, according to a county autopsy report released on Friday that found he was struck once in the abdomen.

Tamir Rice, who was black, was shot on Nov. 22 by a white police officer responding to a call of a suspect waving a handgun around in a Cleveland park. The weapon turned out to be a replica that typically fires plastic pellets. The sixth-grader died the next day.

http://news.yahoo.com/cleveland-boy-killed-police-shot-once-death-declared-171314526.html



hom·i·cide
ˈhäməˌsīd/
noun
NORTH AMERICAN

1. 
   
   
   • the deliberate and unlawful killing of one person by another; murder.
     "he was charged with homicide"
     synonyms:murder, killing, slaughter, butchery, massacre;More
     • the police department that deals with murders.
       noun: Homicide
       "a detective from Homicide"
     • dated
       a murderer.

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Ohio mayor: Police brass not to blame for problems


CLEVELAND (AP) — The mayor on Thursday refused to blame his top safety department officials for what the U.S. Justice Department says is a pattern of police officers using excessive force and violating people's civil rights.

Safety director Michael McGrath and his predecessor, who is now a mayoral aide, are working to change and improve the department, Mayor Frank Jackson said at a news conference.

http://news.yahoo.com/cleveland-mayor-discuss-us-justice-police-probe-112422180.html


(AP Photo/Mark Duncan)

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