The findings of two independent experts who evaluated evidence in the shooting of Tamir Rice show that Officer Timothy Loehmann use of force was excessive, unreasonable and unjustified. The family has asked for the reports to be presented to the grand jury. Samaria Rice, Tamir’s mother, is scheduled to testify before the grand jury on Monday, November 30, 2015.
These reports were released on the heels of Timothy McGinty refusing to remove himself from the case, despite protesters and supporters delivering 200,000 signatures collected via Color of Change on the anniversary of Tamir’s death.
An in-depth evaluation of the report can be found on Cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Attorneys for the family of Tamir Rice released reports Saturday from two use-of-force experts who determined the shooting of the 12-year-old boy by a Cleveland police officer was “objectively unreasonable.”
The reviews stand in direct contrast to three expert reports commissioned and released by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty, who Tamir’s family, activists and religious leaders have repeatedly called to remove himself from the case.
Cleveland attorney Subodh Chandra and the New York law firm of Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff & Abady have called McGinty’s expert reports “utterly biased and deeply flawed.” The attorneys represent Tamir’s mother in a pending civil lawsuit filed against the city, the two officers involved in the shooting and the Cleveland police department.
At the legal team’s request, police procedures consultant Roger Clark and former deputy police chief of the Irvine Police Department Jeffry J. Noble, both California-based nationally renowned experts in police use-of-force issues, pored over investigative material and determined the shooting was not justified.
Clark and Noble, in a combined 31 pages of documents, reasoned that officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback placed themselves in harm’s way by driving within feet of Tamir and shooting him Nov. 22, 2014 outside the Cudell Recreation Center on Cleveland’s West Side. Continue reading on Cleveland.com