A Cleveland Police officer shot Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy, on November 22 in a park. He died the next day.
Rice was carrying a toy airsoft gun when officer Timothy Loehmann shot him within two seconds of arriving on the scene.
Loehmann joined the Cleveland force in March, having resigned from his previous job after a report found him unfit for duty.
Police will investigate the shooting and turn over evidence to a grand jury, which will decide whether to press criminal charges against the officers involved. And Rice's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the police officers involved in the shooting and the city of Cleveland.
Full story: http://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7275297/tamir-rice-police-shooting
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