Posted December 30, 2015 3:42 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

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Seconds after firing on Tamir Rice, officer Timothy Loehmann (right) retreated for cover behind the squad car, and his partner, Frank Garmbeck (left), swung around behind Rice appraise the situation. Rice is obscured by the police car.

Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty said that U.S. Justice Department guidelines forced him to tell a grand jury that the enhanced security camera footage clearly showed that Tamir Rice was in the act of drawing a realistic replica handgun from his waistband when he was shot. Cleveland officer Timothy Loehmann were forced to fire as a result of Rice’s poor decision to draw the airsoft gun from his waistband as a squad car came to a stop just ten feet away.

McGinty said the Department of Justice’s U.S. Attorney’s manual says a prosecutor must tell a grand jury when substantial evidence refutes the guilt of the target in the investigation.

Prosecutors decided they couldn’t get a conviction after seeing enhanced surveillance footage of the shooting, he said.

It showed the 12-year-old black boy was drawing what turned out to be a pellet gun from his waistband when he was shot, McGinty said.

A grand jury announced on Monday that no criminal charges would be …Read the Rest

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