Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Tamir Rice Shooting Death: Activists Try Rare Move to Force Arrest of Cops

Cleveland activists made an unusual legal maneuver Tuesday aimed at forcing the arrest of two officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old boy Tamir Rice last year.

Saying they were losing confidence in the grand jury process, the activists instead asked a judge to order the arrests of the officers.

The move, known as an "affidavit of person having knowledge of offense," centers on a widely distributed security camera footage of the Nov. 22 shooting, that shows two officers, Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback, responding to a recreation center playground where Rice was playing with a pellet gun. Within two seconds of stopping, Loehmann, a rookie officer, shot him. Tamir died the next day.

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