Tamir Rice Grand Jury Declines to Charge Officers With Crime

People display sigs at Cudell Commons Park in Cleveland, Ohio, November 24, 2014 during a rally for Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy shot by police on November 23. Cleveland police chief Calvin Williams on Monday defended the conduct of the officer who fatally shot the 12-year-old who was wielding a replica handgun. Tamir Rice died in hospital early Sunday after two police officers, responding to a 911 emergency call, confronted the African-American youngster at a recreation center. The incident came as Americans awaited a grand jury’s decision on whether to indict a white police officer, Darren Wilson, in the St. Louis, Missouri suburb of Ferguson for the fatal shooting in August of black teenager Michael Brown.

Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty announced Monday that a grand jury investigation into the 2014 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice resulted in a decision to not charge policemen Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback in his death. Rice was shot at a Cleveland-area park last November after the officers drove up to him and thought he was wielding a firearm, which they later discovered to be a toy gun.

McGinty indicated that the decision not to charge the officers also came as his recommendation to the court after reviewing all available evidence. “Given this perfect storm of human error, mistakes, and communications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police,” he said. “[It] is now indisputable that Tamir was drawing his gun from his waist.”

McGinty further defended the officers by suggesting those upset with the decision put themselves in the officers’ shoes: “It is likely that Tamir, whose size made him look much older and had been warned his pellet gun might get him into trouble that day, either intended to hand it over or show them it wasn’t a real gun. But there was no way for the officers to know that because they saw the events rapidly unfolding in front of them from a very different perspective. Just minutes before the event, they responded to a ‘code one’ report of a guy pointing a gun of people outside the rec center.”

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