Why Police Thought 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Was Much Older
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On Monday, an Ohio grand jury chose not to indict the police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old from Cleveland, after the cops mistook his toy gun for an actual weapon. Officers also mistook a child for a grown man.
“It is likely that Tamir, whose size made him look much older…either intended to hand it over to the officers or show them it wasn’t a real gun,” said prosecutor Tim McGinty in a prepared statement Monday.
After the shooting, officers relayed to their dispatcher that a person in his 20s had been shot, CNN reports. At the hearing, a prosecutor claimed >>>