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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