Two reports from a former Denver prosecutor and former FBI agent conclude that the police were justified in shooting 12-year old Tamir Rice.
Rice was shot and killed by Timothy Loehmann, an officer in training, on November 22, 2014 after Loehmann responded to a 911 call of a “a guy in here with a pistol, pointing it at everybody.” While the caller admitted the gun was likely fake, he added, “He’s scaring the s*** out of people.” The caller’s description that the gun was likely fake was not relayed to the officers who responded to the call, and the gun turned out to be a BB gun.
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