By Cherranda Smith
Dec 30, 2020
On Tuesday (December 29), the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that two Cleveland, Ohio police officers will not be facing federal charges in the 2014 fatal shooting of 12-year-old
Tamir Rice.
DOJ officials say video footage of the event is too poor quality to definitively determine what happened that day outside of a recreation center.
A statement released by the Department indicates that the officers’ actions weren’t condoned with the decision not to bring federal charges, only that there wasn’t enough conclusive evidence to support prosecution on the grounds of federal criminal civil rights violation.
On November 22, 2014, Tamir was playing with a pellet gun outside when he was fatally shot by Officers