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USA: Police officers who killed a black boy holding a toy gun will not be prosecuted
The Justice Department has announced that there is not enough evidence against the two white cops who shot dead Tamir Rice in Cleveland in 2014.
They claim they did not know it was a toy gun and they shot it after refusing to place it.
In 2015 a jury decided not to prosecute the two.
The family is disappointed: "There is no justice"
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Wednesday, 30 December 2020, 15:16
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In the video: A Cleveland police officer shot dead a black boy who was playing with a toy gun (Photo: Reuters, Edited by: Yair Daniel)
The U.S. Department of Justice closed tonight (Wednesday) the case against two white police officers who were involved in the killing of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy from Cleveland who held a toy gun and was shot to death in 2014.
The incident was one of several media incidents that led to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Five years ago, a jury decided not to prosecute the two police officers, and the Ministry of Justice also announced the closure of the case due to "lack of evidence."
The ministry said it could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that one of them knowingly violated the law, and it may have been a mistake or misjudgment.
"Although Tamir Rice's name is a tragedy, both the Department of Civil Rights and the United States Prosecutor's Office have concluded that there has been no violation of federal law that can be prosecuted," the Justice Department said.
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The policemen claimed that he aimed his weapon at them.
Documentation of the incident from 2014
The two officers involved in the shooting, Timothy Leiman and Frank Grambeck, responded to an emergency call about a man waving a gun near a recreation center.
However, the center did not provide them with the information received that it was a minor and that it may be a toy gun.
"Police officers believed they responded to a call to a playground where a teenager waved a gun at people, apparently children," the Justice Department statement said, spread over six pages.
It was further said that the documentation of the security cameras was too vague to show the course of events that preceded the shooting.
Officers claimed they told Rice to drop the weapon, but instead he aimed it at him.
Police confirmed it was a toy gun after Rice was shot dead.
Leiman, who fired the deadly shots, was fired three years later after lying in his job interview.
The case was closed due to lack of evidence.
Demonstration in Washington following Bryce's shooting (Photo: AP)
The family's legal team and Rice's mother expressed frustration with the Justice Department's decision.
"The family will win justice when the cops who killed her child are on trial," said attorney Subud Chandra.
In 2016, the Cleveland municipality compensated the family with $ 6 million.
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