Tamir Rice: grand jury begins evaluating evidence in boy's killing by police

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Tamir Rice: grand jury begins evaluating evidence in boy's killing by police

Associated Press in Cleveland
Tuesday 27 October 2015 19.43 GMT

A grand jury has begun evaluating evidence to decide whether criminal charges should be filed against two white officers in the fatal police shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy carrying a pellet gun outside a recreation center.

The head of Cleveland’s largest police union told the Associated Press on Tuesday that officers were subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury last week and on Monday.

“We’ve cooperated fully,” said Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association. “I have all the confidence in the world in the grand jury system and our system of justice.”

Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty has said he would take the case to the grand jury, but Loomis’s comments revealed that the panel had begun hearing the case. McGinty’s spokesman Joe Frolik said the prosecutor’s office cannot comment on grand jury proceedings.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/27/tamir-rice-grand-jury-begins-evaluating-evidence

[uppityperson]

1. They drove up too close too fast. There is no doubt of that.

The driver put the shooter in danger.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. I fear this killer cop is going to walk.

Prosecutors have commissioned and released two reports saying the killing was okay. The grand jury will have those.

And this is the city where a judge a few months ago acquitted another cop who leapt on the hood of a car and opened up on the unarmed occupants. Judge said that since so many cops had fired so many rounds, he couldn't be sure it was this cop's rounds that actually killed them. Wow.

I would expect BLM to be very active in Cleveland beginning...now.

[Kalidurga]

3. “We’ve cooperated fully,...

I am so glad my translator is working today. We’ve cooperated fully: We have covered our asses fully