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rbrnmw

(7,160 posts)
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 08:34 PM Mar 2015

Tamir Rice

According to court documents obtained by BuzzFeed’s Stephanie McNeal, the city of Cleveland, Ohio is claiming that 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s death — as well as the pain and suffering caused to his family by it — was his own fault.

Tamir Rice was shot and killed while playing with a replica gun in a park last November. Rice had been playing with the replica in the park when rookie Officer Timothy Loehmann and his partner pulled up in a police cruiser and, within two seconds, shot him dead.

The incident was captured on video, but neither Officer Loehmann nor his partner knew that when they gave investigators their initial statements, in which they claimed that Rice was with a group of young boys and was waving the gun around with the intention of shooting someone.


The investigation was transferred from the Cleveland Police Department to the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department after Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said it required “an extra layer of separation and impartiality.”

Rice’s family filed a lawsuit against the city in December, and then another in January after hiring a new set of lawyers.


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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/city-of-cleveland-12-year-old-tamir-rice-caused-his-own-death-by-failing-to-avoid-injury
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Tamir Rice (Original Post) rbrnmw Mar 2015 OP
Straight up assholes. bravenak Mar 2015 #1
yes mam they are rbrnmw Mar 2015 #2
All I saw was him alone. Never in a group of boys trying to shoot people. bravenak Mar 2015 #4
me too rbrnmw Mar 2015 #8
Tamir's mother is going to be on CNN in a few. Exhibit A Mar 2015 #3
thanks nt rbrnmw Mar 2015 #5
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr randys1 Mar 2015 #6
Only a Very Sick Society tries to justify killing children FreakinDJ Mar 2015 #7
It is very sick rbrnmw Mar 2015 #9
Shameful gwheezie Mar 2015 #10
This is a sick fucking country. Starry Messenger Mar 2015 #11
yes it is rbrnmw Mar 2015 #12
(((hug))) Starry Messenger Mar 2015 #13

rbrnmw

(7,160 posts)
2. yes mam they are
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 08:38 PM
Mar 2015

What I wanna know is what group of boys? This is the first I heard about a group of boys.

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
4. All I saw was him alone. Never in a group of boys trying to shoot people.
Mon Mar 2, 2015, 08:45 PM
Mar 2015

They're making shit up. I hope that for once it does not work. I'm fucking tired of lying ass cops getting the benefit of doubt.

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