With scott pelley. Good evening. Scotts off tonight. Im jeff glor. Abohio grand jury today declined to indict two White Cleveland police officers, Timothy Loehmann and frank garmback, in the shooting death of 12yearold tamir rice. Rice was shot in november of last year after being spotted waving a gun in a park. It turned out to be a toy. The prosecutor called the incident an absolute tragedy, but not a crime. Demarco morgan is in cleveland. Simply put, given this perfect storm of human error, the states miscommunication by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police. Reporter Cuyahoga County prosecutor tim mcginty says this enhanced video shows 12yearold tamir rice was pulling a pellet gun out of his waistband when it was shot. Over to the officers or show it wasnt real gun, but there was no way for the officers to know it. They saw the events unfolding in front of them from a different perspective. Reporter the prosecutor said the radio dispatcher
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Pulling a pellet gun out of his waistband when it was shot. He either intended to hand it over to the officers or show it wasnt real gun, but there was no way for the officers to know it. They saw the events unfolding in front of them from a different perspective. Reporter the prosecutor said the radio dispatcher was to blame for not telling the police that the gun may have been fake and the s. May have been underage. That information came in on a 911 call. Hes sitting on a swing. Hes pulling it out of his pants and pointing it at people. Hes probably a juvenile, you know. Its probably fake. Reporter but the radio dispatcher told the officers this. Hes in the park by the youth center. Hes a black male sitting on a swing. He keeps pulling a gun out of his pants and pointing it at people. Reporter officer loehmann shot rice within two seconds of pulling up to the scene with his Training Officer frank garmback. The countnts public corruption to shoot quickly when they believe a suspect ma
No way for the officers to know that. They saw the events unfolding in front of them from a different perspective. Reporter the prosecutor said the radio dispatcher was also to ame for not telling the police that the gun may have been fake and the suspect may have been underage. That information came in on a 911 call. Reporter but the radio dispatcher told the officers this reporter officer loehmann shot rice within two secds of pulling up to the scene with his training o oicer frank garmback. The countys public corruption unit chief says officers trained to shoot quickly when they believe a suspecmay open fire. It is clear that had these a child and the gun was possibly a toy, that would not have considered this incident to have been so serious and most certainly would have used different tactics. R rorter Walter Madison represents the rice family. There was an expectation that this would be the outcome of the grand jury process, but theres nothing like knowing. Its real now and they