nowthisnews:In 2014, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was playing with a toy pellet gun in a Cleveland park wh
nowthisnews:In 2014, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was playing with a toy pellet gun in a Cleveland park when officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed him within two seconds of getting out of his patrol car. Officers were dispatched to the park because someone called 911 about Rice playing with the pellet gun saying a ‘juvenile’ was pointing a gun at people but ‘it’s probably fake.’ 911 dispatchers never told officers that Rice was a child or the gun was likely fake. Neither Loehmann nor his partner tried applying first aid after shooting Rice was shot, and it was only after a trained paramedic showed up to the scene that Rice received aid. In 2017, the Cleveland police department fired Loehmann, but not solely for shooting Rice; Loehmann provided ‘false information’ when he applied to the department several years before. The other officer involved in Rice’s shooting, Frank Garmback, was only suspended for 10 days. -- source link