I just have to bring the concluding part of these story because I brought the first part some days ago (see story HERE).
The surveillance video of how 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot last Saturday in Cleveland, Ohio has been released. The video was released on Wednesday November 26, 2014 following a demand from Tamir’s family to know what really went wrong at the park.
According to several reports, a Cleveland police officer shot Tamir two seconds after he and his partner arrived at the park to investigate a 911 call that someone was pointing a gun at people.
The police department also released two audio recordings of the call that was placed before the shooting. Watch video (credit: CNN) below…
According to CNN,
The dispatcher radioed to officers about a black male who was “pointing a gun at people,” but did not mention that caller’s belief that he could be a minor and that the gun might not be a real firearm, one of the released recordings shows.
Police previously said it wasn’t clear if the responding officers received the information about the suspect’s age or the gun possibly being fake.
Authorities are investigating the shooting, and the two officers — identified Wednesday by police as Timothy Loehmann, 26, and Frank Garmback, 46 — are on leave from their jobs.
Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba stressed that his department released the video at the request of Tamir’s relatives, who had seen it privately with authorities’ permission.
