Current Events > Police murder child; threaten mother to remain calm or be arrested

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https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/us/in-tamir-rice-shooting-in-cleveland-many-errors-by-police-then-a-fatal-one.html

CLEVELAND It began with a swap: one boys cellphone for anothers replica of a Colt pistol.
One of the boys went to play in a nearby park, striking poses with the lifelike, airsoft-style gun, which fired plastic pellets. He threw a snowball, settled down at a picnic table and flopped his head onto his arms in a perfect assertion of preteen ennui, a grainy security video shows.
Then, with the gun tucked away, he walked to the edge of the gazebo. He might have been wandering aimlessly, or he might have been attracted by the sight of a squad car barreling across the lawn.
Seconds later, the boy lay dying from a police officers bullet. Shots fired, male down, one of the officers in the car called across his radio. Black male, maybe 20, black revolver, black handgun by him. Send E.M.S. this way, and a roadblock.
But the boy, Tamir Rice, was only 12. Now, with the county sheriffs office reviewing the shooting, interviews and recently released video and police records show how a series of miscommunications, tactical errors and institutional failures by the Cleveland police cascaded into one irreversible mistake.
And in death last November, Tamir joined Michael Brown, a teenager fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner, a Staten Island man who died after being placed in a chokehold by an officer, as touchstones for protests of police violence against unarmed black people across the nation. Their names were chanted by demonstrators again on Monday in Martin Luther King Jr. Day marches.

Because of multiple layers in Clevelands 911 system, crucial information from the initial call about a guy in here with a pistol was never relayed to the responding police officers, including the callers caveats that the gun was probably fake and that the wielder was probably a juvenile.
What the officers, Frank Garmback and his rookie partner, Tim Loehmann, did hear from a dispatcher was, We have a Code 1, the departments highest level of urgency.
When the officers raced into action, they took a shortcut that pointed their squad car straight into the park, pulling up so close to Tamir that it made it difficult to take cover, or to use verbal persuasion or other tactics suggested by the departments use-of-force policy.
Within two seconds of the cars arrival, Officer Loehmann shot Tamir in the abdomen from point-blank range, raising doubts that he could have warned the boy three times to raise his hands, as the police later claimed.
And when Tamirs 14-year-old sister came running up minutes later, the officers, who are white, tackled her to the ground and put her in handcuffs, intensifying later public outrage about the boys death. When his distraught mother arrived, the officers also threatened to arrest her unless she calmed down, the mother, Samaria Rice, said.
Officers Garmback and Loehmann did not check Tamirs vital signs or perform first aid in the minutes after he was shot. But Officer Garmback frantically requested an emergency medical team at least seven times, urging the dispatcher to step it up and to send medical workers from a fire station a block away. It would be eight minutes before they arrived.
The shooting fit into a broader history of dysfunction at the Cleveland Division of Police. Two weeks after Tamirs death, the Justice Department released a scathing report accusing the department of a pattern of excessive force for which officers were rarely disciplined, and pressed the department to accept a federal monitor. Just a year before, in 2013, an investigation by the state attorney general found systemic failure in the department.
It also highlighted shortcomings in the departments vetting process for recruits. Police records show that Officer Loehmann was hired without a review of his file at a previous department, where he resigned after suffering a dangerous loss of composure during firearms training.
The Cleveland police department and mayors office declined to comment for this article.
For Cleveland residents, the shooting highlighted another longstanding problem: The departments community policing programs had been whittled down to a token effort, a result of cuts a decade earlier that might well have made a life-or-death difference to Tamir. A sign on a telephone pole yards from where he was shot down still advertises a police mini-station in the nearby recreation center where he played basketball. The station is long gone.
If there was one there, Councilman Jeffrey Johnson said, he would have known Tamir, because Tamir was a regular, and he would have heard the call and gone out there and said, Tamir, what are you doing?
A Real-Looking Toy
Before leaving his mothers apartment on that gray Saturday, Nov. 22, Tamir went through one of her drawers to find a plaything: her cellphone.
He was known as a boisterous, friendly boy. At school, where he had a good attendance record, Tamir was often in trouble, classmates said, mainly for his pranks: He was deft with a whoopee cushion and liked to reseal his empty milk carton to tempt the unsuspecting.

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You fucking murdered her child and you expect her to remain calm? You're lucky she didn't murder you, you belligerent fucking mouth breathers who've got more bullets in your gun than cells in your brain.

This is really old news why bring it up now

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Tyranthraxus posted...

This is really old news why bring it up now

I saw it and it made me mad so I wanted to share my anger with CE

Tyranthraxus posted...

This is really old news why bring it up now

Yeah TC. Innocent black people being murdered by police is old news. Why something like that hasn't happened in less than 24 hours. No way this news report is at all relevant to what's happening now.

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It's been 5 years. I assume nothing happened to those cops.

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This story is old as shit

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Why was someone with a nonconcealed gun who is not shooting at anyone "the highest level of urgency?" There's nothing illegal about having a gun in public.

Let me guess: he "fit the description?"

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Thanks. Going to sleep angry

how dare they tell her to calm down

Kloe_Rinz posted...

how dare they tell her to calm down

Yeah how fucking dare not . They murder the son , and throw around the the daughter .

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jumi posted...

Why was someone with a nonconcealed gun who is not shooting at anyone "the highest level of urgency?" There's nothing illegal about having a gun in public.

Let me guess: he "fit the description?"

Didn't the person who made a 911 call say he was pointing it at people?

Having a gun in public is one thing. Carrying unholstered and aiming it at people is anothet

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Kisai posted...

It's been 5 years. I assume nothing happened to those cops.

The DA tanked the case, the cop got fired and the rehired a mile or so away.

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Yeah I remember Tamir Rice. R.I.P. He would have graduated high school last year.

Its just crazy how even when clear problems in a police department and/or a particular police officer are identified, still nothing gets done about it.

The shooting fit into a broader history of dysfunction at the Cleveland Division of Police. Two weeks after Tamirs death, the Justice Department released a scathing report accusing the department of a pattern of excessive force for which officers were rarely disciplined, and pressed the department to accept a federal monitor. Just a year before, in 2013, an investigation by the state attorney general found systemic failure in the department.

It also highlighted shortcomings in the departments vetting process for recruits. Police records show that Officer Loehmann was hired without a review of his file at a previous department, where he resigned after suffering a dangerous loss of composure during firearms training.

The Cleveland police department and mayors office declined to comment for this article.

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If they indicated on record that they hired him without review then the entire Department should be held accountable for his actions

This case still angers me. I knew about the sister but never knew they threatened the mom too

jumi posted... .

Let me guess: he "fit the description?"

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Zikten posted...

This case still angers me. I knew about the sister but never knew they threatened the mom too

This. Those officers should have faced murder 1 and the death penalty.

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a-c-a-b posted...

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They gotta protect themselves you never know /s