Tamir Rice’s Family Explodes Over Suggestion To Use Settlement Money For Good
By Bob Owens
Tamir Rice’s final and ultimately fatal mistake was attempting to draw the weapon as a marked police car came to a stop just feet away.
Tamir Rice made the fatal mistake of drawing a realistic pistol from his waistband as a Cleveland police officer exited a marked car just feet away.
This is the airsoft pistol Tamir Rice drew from his pants as a squad car stopped beside him. This act of drawing a realistic firearm gave officer Timothy Loehmann no choice but to fire in self-defense.
Timothy Loehmann had no choice but to respond to basic law enforcement training and fire his service pistol at what appeared to be a man drawing a gun on an officer. Despite the protests by “Black Lives Matter” activists and anti-police radicals who absurdly claimed that officers should know that a 5’7″, 195 lbs figure in baggie clothes with a hoodie obscuring his facial features was a 12-year-old child with a toy gun, three use-of-force experts and prosecutors all agreed that Officer Loehmann should not face criminal charges. It was a tragic incident, driven entirely by Rice’s poor decisions to point a realistic gun at people in a public park (resulting in …Read the Rest
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