Tamir Rice

[rbrnmw]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/city-of-cleveland-12-year-old-tamir-rice-caused-his-own-death-by-failing-to-avoid-injury/

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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[marym625]

1. This makes me so beyond angry

I can't even allow it to truly enter my thoughts.
The first time I saw this I flipped out. I can't even begin to imagine what that family is going through.

This is even worse than what the police union said about Eric Garner's death

[rbrnmw]

2. It's a mess of straight out lies

This group of boys bullshit is so false.

[Number23]

3. "Rice’s family filed a lawsuit against the city in December"

I hope they win, turn around and then sue them again.

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.

Damn their lying asses. Everything else they've said in defence of themselves should be tossed in the trash after this.

[rbrnmw]

4. group of boys?

That just pisses me off they were lying and should go to jail, for murder and falsifying a police report.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Liars Liars Pants on Fire

They have no credibility on anything.

[heaven05]

6. I'm sitting here

watching 'Mississippi Burning' while reading this forum. I am taken with the fact that the tactic(s) of outspoken racists and their undercover agents elsewhere have not changed since Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney were murdered. Misdirect investigation, blame the victim and out and out lie about who, what, when and where and don't forget, why. The hate by those aforementioned agents is just as obvious even when they are posing as allies. I just make it a point to know my friends and keep my enemies close, as some are on this DU site.