What is going on? A patrolman drives up to a suspected crime scene, emerges from his police cruiser and within two seconds shoots 12-year-old, Tamir Rice to death. No questions, no evaluating the scene, no attempt at wounding the child, not a second wasted in questioning whether the gun was real or the child had mental problems. No. Get out of the car. Point your gun at this child and kill him. Now nearly 400 days later an Ohio grand jury has declined to indict either the shooter, rookie patrolman Timothy Loehmann, or veteran officer Frank Garmback. Both officers claim they repeatedly yelled at Tamir to "show me your hands" but surveillance video shows that to be a complete lie. This is murder. This is cold-blooded murder. This is murder without hesitation. The members of that grand jury should
be absolutely ashamed of themselves. This is a horrible crime that keeps happening more and more.
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