Shooting, Sat Nov 22, died Sun Nov 23
"A Cleveland police officer shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice about two seconds after the officer and a partner pulled up in a car to investigate reports that someone was brandishing a gun at a park, surveillance video that police released Wednesday shows...."
"The video shows Tamir walking along a sidewalk and eventually sitting on a picnic table bench under a gazebo Saturday afternoon, sometimes pointing what appears to be a handgun.Eventually, Tamir emerges from the bench and walks to the edge of the gazebo. A police car drives up to the gazebo, leaving the road and rolling over snowy grass to do so.
One of the officers -- the one in the passenger seat -- told Tamir three times to "show your hands," Tomba told reporters.
"(The officer's) door was open as they pulled up," Tomba said. "He yelled three times as they pulled up."
The eight-minute surveillance video has no audio.
Police have said Tamir reached into his waistband and pulled out the weapon. The video shows Loehmann, the passenger-side officer, exiting the car, and Tamir falls down, apparently shot...."
""Investigators determined that Tamir's weapon was an air gun, and that an orange tip that is meant to indicate that that it's not a real firearm had been removed, police said." bbm
Includes a 4 min news clip-video w footage of shooting.
And Links to 911 call at article below.
^Wed Nov 26, updated Nov 27 ^ http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/justice/cleveland-police-shooting/.
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"Tamir Rice family: 'Situation could have been avoided,' 'Tamir should still be here'"
Thanks CPD for release of shooting vid
Sets forth family's full stmt to public re release of vid
Nov 26 ^ http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-...-have-been-avoided-tamir-should-still-be-here
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"Fred Loehmann, [LEO]Timothy Loehmann's father, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer this week that his son didn't know the boy's gun was fake or realize he was 12 years old.
"I was right there and he went for the gun," he recalled his son saying, according to the newspaper. "I had no choice."
Dec 5^ http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/04/justice/cleveland-police-officer-timothy-loehmann/index.html ^
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Re LEO employmt review at other PD, 2 yrs prior
"Nearly two years before he shot and killed a 12-year-old who had an air gun, Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann resigned from another police job after a supervisor described him as "distracted and weepy" and "emotionally immature." "
Dec 5^ http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/04/justice/cleveland-police-officer-timothy-loehmann/index.html ^
Sad, sad, sad. RIP Tamir.
Mods - I could not find thread on this. If a duplicate, pls move post to existing thread.
"A Cleveland police officer shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice about two seconds after the officer and a partner pulled up in a car to investigate reports that someone was brandishing a gun at a park, surveillance video that police released Wednesday shows...."
"The video shows Tamir walking along a sidewalk and eventually sitting on a picnic table bench under a gazebo Saturday afternoon, sometimes pointing what appears to be a handgun.Eventually, Tamir emerges from the bench and walks to the edge of the gazebo. A police car drives up to the gazebo, leaving the road and rolling over snowy grass to do so.
One of the officers -- the one in the passenger seat -- told Tamir three times to "show your hands," Tomba told reporters.
"(The officer's) door was open as they pulled up," Tomba said. "He yelled three times as they pulled up."
The eight-minute surveillance video has no audio.
Police have said Tamir reached into his waistband and pulled out the weapon. The video shows Loehmann, the passenger-side officer, exiting the car, and Tamir falls down, apparently shot...."
""Investigators determined that Tamir's weapon was an air gun, and that an orange tip that is meant to indicate that that it's not a real firearm had been removed, police said." bbm
Includes a 4 min news clip-video w footage of shooting.
And Links to 911 call at article below.
^Wed Nov 26, updated Nov 27 ^ http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/26/justice/cleveland-police-shooting/.
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"Tamir Rice family: 'Situation could have been avoided,' 'Tamir should still be here'"
Thanks CPD for release of shooting vid
Sets forth family's full stmt to public re release of vid
Nov 26 ^ http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-...-have-been-avoided-tamir-should-still-be-here
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"Fred Loehmann, [LEO]Timothy Loehmann's father, told the Cleveland Plain Dealer this week that his son didn't know the boy's gun was fake or realize he was 12 years old.
"I was right there and he went for the gun," he recalled his son saying, according to the newspaper. "I had no choice."
Dec 5^ http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/04/justice/cleveland-police-officer-timothy-loehmann/index.html ^
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Re LEO employmt review at other PD, 2 yrs prior
"Nearly two years before he shot and killed a 12-year-old who had an air gun, Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann resigned from another police job after a supervisor described him as "distracted and weepy" and "emotionally immature." "
Dec 5^ http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/04/justice/cleveland-police-officer-timothy-loehmann/index.html ^
Sad, sad, sad. RIP Tamir.
Mods - I could not find thread on this. If a duplicate, pls move post to existing thread.
