with scott pelley. good evening. scott s off tonight. i m jeff glor. abohio grand jury today declined to indict two white cleveland police officers, timothy loehmann and frank garmback, in the shooting death of 12-year-old 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 state s 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 12-year-old tamir rice was pulling a pellet gun out of his waistband when it was shot. over to the officers or show it wasn t 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 prosecuto
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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 wasn t 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. he s sitting on a swing. he s pulling it out of his pants and pointing it at people. he s probably a juvenile, you know. it s probably fake. reporter: but the radio dispatcher told the officers this. he s in the park by the youth center. he s 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
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 county s 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 there s nothing like