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                                                                                                                                            Monday 30 November 2015

Cleveland:

   New images, analysis released of Tamir Rice shooting 

This combination of still images taken from a surveillance video      with the conclusions of        “The officers created the
and released Saturday, Nov. 28, 2015, by the Cuyahoga County          your so-called experts who     alleged danger here,” Carr
Prosecutor’s Office, shows Cleveland police officers arriving at      concluded the shooting of      wrote in his report.
Cudell Park on a report of a man with a gun. Twelve-year-old          Tamir Rice was reasonable      Carr criticized the prosecu-
Tamir Rice was fatally shot by Cleveland police officer Timothy       and justified,” the letter     tors’ experts for assuming
Loehmann, Nov. 22, 2014, after he reportedly pulled a replica         said.                          that Loehmann warned
gun at the city park.                                                 A spokesman for McGinty        Tamir to raise his hands
                                                                      said Saturday that there will  before he shot him, which
                        (Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office via AP)  be discussions with the Rice   a Cleveland deputy chief
                                                                      family attorneys about al-     told reporters shortly after
MARK GILLISPIE                 ily asked the prosecutor to            lowing their experts to tes-   the shooting. Investigators
Associated Press               allow their use-of-force ex-           tify before the grand jury.    from the Cuyahoga Coun-
CLEVELAND (AP) — Prose-        perts to testify before the            The family’s experts said      ty Sheriff’s Office noted
cutors in Ohio on Saturday     grand jury. The request                bad police tactics led to      in a report that there was
released a frame-by-frame      follows the release of re-             Tamir’s death. Roger Carr,     no evidence Loehmann
analysis of the surveillance   ports by use-of-force ex-              a consultant from San-         shouted anything.
camera footage first made      perts hired by prosecutors             tee, California, noted in      Jeffrey Noble, the fam-
public a year ago that         that concluded the shoot-              his report that Garmback,      ily’s other California-based
shows a white Cleveland        ing was justified because              Loehmann’s training offi-      expert, noted in his report
police officer fatally shoot-  the officers had no way of             cer, should have stopped       that the “reckless tactical
ing a black 12-year-old boy    knowing that Tamir’s pellet            the cruiser a distance away    decision” by Garmback
who had a pellet gun.          gun wasn’t a real firearm.             from Tamir to give the offi-   and Loehmann to stop so
The additional images tak-     Loehmann and patrolman                 cers time to assess the situ-  close to the boy “directly
en from surveillance video     Frank Garmback were sent               ation.                         led to Tamir’s death.”q
at a recreation center         to a Cleveland recreation
where Tamir Rice was shot      center after a man called
and killed don’t appear to     911 to report that a man
contain any new or sub-        was waving a gun and
stantive information. The      pointing it at people. The
new footage was released       caller told the dispatcher
in the “spirit of openness,”   that the gun might not be
said Cuyahoga County           real. The call also said the
Prosecutor Tim McGinty.        man might be a juvenile,
The analysis also doesn’t      but that information wasn’t
show whether Tamir, as         passed on to the officers.
police officials have main-    In a letter to Cuyahoga
tained, was reaching into      County Prosecutor Tim
his waistband for the pellet   McGinty dated Friday, at-
gun when then-rookie pa-       torneys for the Rice fam-
trolman Timothy Loehmann       ily reiterated their demand
shot him less than two sec-    that McGinty step aside
onds after getting out of      and allow a special pros-
the car.                       ecutor to take over the
The enhancement by a vid-      case. The letter called the
eo expert will be presented    prosecutor’s presentation
to a grand jury that will      to the grand jury “biased”
decide if Loehmann or his      and “improper” after the
field training officer should  release of three expert re-
be charged criminally for      ports that called the shoot-
Tamir’s death. Loehmann        ing justified. The grand jury
shot Tamir outside Cudell      began hearing evidence
Recreation Center on Nov.      about the shooting five
22, 2014. Saturday’s re-       weeks ago.
lease of the enhancement       The use-of-force experts
comes the same day that        hired by the Rice fam-
attorneys for the boy’s fam-   ily “strenuously disagreed
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