Grand Jury In Tamir Rice Case Didn't Vote On Decision To Charge Cops

Grand Jury In Tamir Rice Case Didn’t Vote On Decision To Charge Officers

There has to be a better way to decide whether or not charges will brought against officers who kill civilians under suspicious circumstances.

According to the NYDailyNews, a Cleveland grand jury has some serious ‘splaining to do…

The grand jury that declined to indict the two Cleveland police officers involved in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice never took a vote on the decision, officials revealed Wednesday.

Instead, the panel decided that police Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback were justified in using lethal force in shooting the child, according to documents released by the Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s office.

Prosecutor Tim McGinty announced last month that the two cops won’t face criminal charges in the November 2014 shooting at the Cudell Recreation Center. Loehmann, a rookie officer, “had reason to fear for his life” when he shot Tamir after the boy grabbed a pellet gun from his waist, McGinty said.

It’s unimaginable that not a SINGLE PERSON on this “grand jury” thought that there was even a reason to vote. Sickening even…

Attorneys for Tamir’s family, who have slammed McGinty’s handling of the case for months, called the news “yet another example of the disturbing and troubling way the grand jury process has been handled by the local prosecutor,” in a statement released Wednesday night.

“By ‘no indictment,’ we understood that to mean that there was a vote,” Rice family attorney Earl Ward told the Daily News. “If there was no vote, then we’ve all been bamboozled.”

He added, “We’ve always thought that this was some sort of a charade. If there was no vote, then it just confirms that.”

‘Merica. Land of the bleeding, home of the grave.