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Apr 26, 2017 · Newly released footage of interviews with the police officers who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice, reveal a shifting story from one officer, as well as a deeply emotional...
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Cleveland police have released surveillance video that shows a 12-year-old boy walking around with and waving a pellet gun and then being fatally shot by a rookie officer seconds after he arrived on the scene.
The black-and-white video is grainy, and the boy’s movements appear jerky and are hard to decipher at times. But he can been seen pacing on the sidewalk of Cudell Recreation Center, the silhouette of his Airsoft pistol plainly visible at times.
A 911 caller, who was sitting in a nearby gazebo, told police several times that the weapon was probably a fake, but the dispatcher did not relay that information to the responding officers, referring to it only as “a gun,” police tapes show. Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said the officers believed they were on a "gun run."
The caller eventually left, and Tamir sat down in the gazebo before Officers Timothy Loehmann, 26, and Frank Garmback, 46, pulled up in a squad car.
There is no audio but Tomba said Loehmann, who was in the passenger seat and who had been on the force only since March, yelled at the boy three times to show his hands as the car neared the gazebo.
Police circled a frame of the video in red that shows Tamir moving his hand — apparently to signal the moment they say the youth reached for the pellet gun.
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Nov 26, 2014 · The Cleveland Police Department on Wednesday released edited video footage of a shooting in which officers killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was brandishing a toy gun.
Nov 27, 2014 · Rice can be seen in the footage, videotaped in a park near Cleveland's Cudell Recreation Center, holding and pointing the replica gun, playing with snow and talking on his cell phone.
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Nov 27, 2014 · A police officer who shot and killed a 12-year-old boy outside a Cleveland recreation center fired within two seconds after the patrol car he was riding in pulled up next to the boy, a video...
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On November 22, 2014, Tamir E. Rice, a twelve year old African-American boy, was killed in Cleveland, Ohio, by Timothy Loehmann, a 26-year-old white patrolman with the Cleveland Division of Police (CDP). Rice was carrying a replica toy gun; Loehmann shot him almost immediately upon arriving on the scene. Loehmann and his partner, 46-year-old ...
Nov 27, 2014 · Video footage of the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old in Cleveland shows he was shot within two seconds of the police arriving. Tamir Rice was shot and killed by police because they...
