Ohio Cops Charged 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice After Fatally Shooting Him

‘Cleveland Police posthumously charged 12-year-old Tamir Rice with “aggravated menacing” and “inducing panic,” according to documents obtained by the Daily Kos on Wednesday.

The child was shot by police officer Timothy Loehmann in a Cleveland park on November 29 2014. The incident transpired after Loehmann and another police officer, Frank Garmback, responded to a dispatch call about a male carrying “a pistol” that later turned out to be a toy.

Surveillance footage of the incident later revealed that Loehmann had shot the youth within seconds of arriving at the scene. Neither officer administered treatment in the aftermath of the shooting. Rice died in the hospital the following day, and his death was ruled a homicide.’

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