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The request to reopen the inquiry into Tamir’s shooting comes against the backdrop of Officer Chauvin’s ongoing murder trial, the recent fatal police shooting of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb, and newly released police body camera footage of an officer in Chicago shooting a 13-year-old boy after he discarded a gun and seemed to be raising his hands.
The letter to Mr. Garland also comes after he and Mr. Biden have vowed to use the powers of the federal government to fight racial injustice, with a focus on discriminatory policing practices.
“We extend our deepest condolences to the Rice family,” a Justice Department spokesman, Anthony D. Coley, said on Friday. “The department has received their letter and will be reviewing it.”
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A Justice Department statement about the Tamir Rice case haunts me.
“Based on this evidence and the high burdens of the applicable federal laws, career prosecutors have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Tamir did not reach for his toy gun; thus, there is insufficient evidence to establish that Officer Loehmann acted unreasonably under the circumstances,” it said.
There wasn’t enough evidence that a 12-year-old boy did not reach for his TOY gun means the adult supposedly trained to de-escalate, to protect the public, was acting accordingly. That makes it hard to think about anything else today that it wasn’t “unreasonable” to shoot and kill a 12-year-old boy who has a toy gun.