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On Wednesday, Cleveland city officials released an extended video of Tamir Rice’s shooting that captures the moment police forced his 14-year-old sister on the ground after the 12-year-old’s death.

Police shot and killed Tamir in a city park on Nov. 22 after a 911 caller reported that an individual was walking around with a “probably fake” gun. Officers shot Tamir less than two seconds after arriving on scene, although they maintain they asked the 12-year-old to put down his fake weapon three times.

In the video taken from the Cudell Recreation Center surveillance camera, which can be viewed above, police force Tamir’s sister to the ground, handcuff her, and place her in the back of a squad car. The 14-year-old was at the park with Tamir when Officer Timothy Loehmann shot him — as she approached the scene, Officer Frank Garmback confronted her.

Tamir’s body lies just steps away from his sister during her arrest. Police did not immediately administer first aid to the boy. An ambulance arrived eight minutes after the exchange.

An attorney representing the Rice family called the video “shocking and outrageous.”

“This has to be the cruelest thing I’ve ever seen,” Akron-based attorney Walter Madison said.

The video confirmed earlier claims made by Tamir’s mother, Samaria Rice, and her legal team at a Dec. 8 press conference that an officer cuffed her daughter as she ran to check on her brother and that officers waited several minutes before administering first aid.

Officers then stood around Tamir as he lay wounded. One officer had his hands on his hips when a man, identified by police as an FBI agent who was in the neighborhood, entered the frame and administered first aid. It was the first medical care the boy received in the four minutes that followed the shooting.

Madison also said the video showed the officers had an “overwhelming indifference” to Tamir as he lay on the ground dying.

“No one thinks that it’s appropriate to try to save him,” Madison said. “The first person who does is not affiliated with the Cleveland police department.

“This is the level of service that makes people very upset and distrustful of law enforcement.”

The video raises more questions for Madison, who said the family wants to know why Cleveland police hired Loehmann after he was on his way to being fired from Independence police in 2012 and was turned down by several other area police agencies before he joined the city’s force.

“This video really explains why,” Madison said. “This is not the professional standard we would expect or deserve, and the city of Cleveland put him in the position to allow this to happen.”

Last week, Mayor Frank Jackson announced that the case was being handed over to the Cuyahoga County Sheriff’s Department. From there, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty will present the evidence to a grand jury to determine whether Loehmann will be charged.

SOURCE: Cleveland | VIDEO SOURCE: YouTube

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