'I think they're pitiful and pathetic, and at this point no one is going to get justice when it comes to police shootings in America,' said Tamir Rice's mother.
"I think they're pitiful and pathetic, and at this point no one is going to get justice when it comes to police shootings in America," said Rice's mother.The mother of Tamir Rice, who was shot to death at age 12 by a Cleveland, Ohio police officer, condemned the U.S. Department of Justice's decision not to reopen her son's case.Monday after receiving a letter from the DOJ regarding the Biden administration's decision.
The letter referenced Section 242 of Title 18 in the U.S. Code, which states that"an officer acted ‘willfully’ if he did so with bad purpose—that is, with the specific intent to do something the law forbids—to deprive a person of their constitutional rights." Rice was killed in 2014 after a witness called 911 to report that he was playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center in Cleveland. Officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed the boy less than two seconds after pulling up to the scene in a police car, according to video evidence.
The Cleveland Police Department has been under court-ordered supervision since 2015 after an investigation that began before Rice's killing found its officers had a"pattern or practice" of using excessive force and violating people's civil rights.the"long-standing and systemic excessive force problem" in the Cleveland Police Department as one reason to consider federal charges.
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