The Justice Department has said it will not reopen the federal investigation into the 2014 death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot to death by Cleveland police.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has said it will not reopen the federal investigation into the 2014 death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot to death by Cleveland police, notifying Tamir's mother after she had participated in a federal training event for state prosecutors on investigating police misconduct cases.to top officials in the Justice Department and met with them last October in the hope of renewing federal interest in her son's death, and again in December.
The decision comes as the Justice Department is being criticized by civil rights groups over a proposed plea deal on federalconvicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery, who was Black, that burst into the spotlight after a judge rejected the agreement for one of the men. Attorney General Merrick Garland has promised to refocus the department’s priorities around civil rights and police reform.
Kristin Clarke, the head of the department's Civil Rights Division, wrote that the 2020 decision not to charge the officers stood. She said in her letter to Tamir's family that “by no means should you view the department's 2020 decision as an exoneration” of the police officer's actions.did an 18-month investigation and announced
in December 2014 that officers had engaged in a pattern and practice of using excessive force and violating people’s civil rights. Rice, who was Black, was playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center in Cleveland on Nov. 22, 2014, when he was shot and killed by Officer Timothy Loehmann seconds after Loehmann and his partner, Officer Frank Garmback, arrived. The white officers had been dispatched to the recreation center after a man drinking beer and waiting for a bus called 911 to report that a “guy” was pointing a gun at people.
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