Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty told the public on Monday that although the killing of Tamir Rice was a tragedy, no crime was committed. The grand jury has declined to charge the Cleveland police officer or his partner in the death of the 12-year-old killed back in November of 2014.
Rice was shot and killed outside of a recreational center where he was “carrying a plastic airsoft gun that fired nonlethal plastic projectiles and was a replica of an actual firearm. He had borrowed it that morning from a friend who warned him to be careful because the gun looked real.”
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