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Cleveland Officer Who Fatally Shot 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Will Not Face Criminal Charges

<p>It has just been reported that the Cleveland cop responsible for fatally shooting 12-year-old&comma; Tamir Rice&comma; will not face any criminal charges as a grand jury failed to indict him and another officer involved in the shooting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tamir was killed a little over a year ago when he was caught carrying a replica gun outside of a recreation center&period; The replica prompted someone to call 911 but the caller did advise police that the weapon was most likely a fake that was being carried by a minor&period; Unfortunately&comma; that message never reached Timothy Lehmann and Frank Garmback&comma; the first responding officers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Footage had revealed that Officer Loehmann pulled up to the scene&comma; stepped out of his vehicle and immediately shot Tamir&comma; killing him a few hours later&period; The county prosecutor in the case&comma;Timothy J&period; McGinty&comma;  said that the fatality was the &&num;8220&semi;perfect storm of human error&&num;8221&semi; since it was later revealed that 12-year-old victim was only holding a pellet gun&period; He acknowledges that the police force grants leniency for decisions made by police officers &&num;8220&semi;who must make a split second decision&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5&semi;">McGinty also said that it is &&num;8220&semi;indisputable&&num;8221&semi; that at the time of the shooting&comma; Rice did remove the pellet gun from his waistband but for motives that were unknown to police at the time&comma; even though he believes it was an attempt to hand it over to the officers to <&sol;span><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5&semi;">show<&sol;span><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5&semi;"> that it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t a real gun&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We will continue to pray for the Rice family&period; Lets chat below<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TSR STAFF&colon; Debra Oh&excl; &commat;The&lowbar;Ebony&lowbar;Issue on IG&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nytimes&period;com&sol;2015&sol;12&sol;29&sol;us&sol;tamir-rice-police-shootiing-cleveland&period;html">http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nytimes&period;com&sol;2015&sol;12&sol;29&sol;us&sol;tamir-rice-police-shootiing-cleveland&period;html<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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