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Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty says that a law prevents him from releasing grand jury transcripts to the NAACP.

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Lawyers for Tamir Rice's family have released two outside reports that call his shooting "unreasonable and unjustified."

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Community leaders, activists, and members of clergy in Cleveland, Ohio, hope to sidestep prosecutors and ask a judge directly to bring murder charges against two officers involved in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, CNN reports. The leaders plan to hold a news conference Tuesday in front of the Cuyahoga County Justice Center to […]

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Just days after a judge acquitted a Cleveland officer in the shooting deaths of two unarmed people when he fired his gun 49 times, the Department of Justice has reached a settlement with the city over the conduct of its police, a justice official tells the Washington Post. The settlement announcement comes amid a widening […]

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The family of Tamir Rice cremated his body earlier this week, reports The Washington Post, nearly six months after the 12-year-old Cleveland, Ohio youth was shot and killed by a police officer while playing with a toy gun on a playground. His mother, Samaria, had kept his body in storage at a cost of $75 […]

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Cleveland police fatally shot an unarmed black teen early Thursday while responding to a call of a break-in at a small convenience store, according to ABC 5 Cleveland. Police say Brandon Jones, 18, was shot at about 2:15 a.m. after officers observed him leaving the store with a bag, the news outlet writes. At least […]

While many know the face of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was shot dead by a Cleveland police officer for carrying a toy pellet gun in a park, not many are as familiar with the officer who killed him. According to Buzzfeed, Officer Tim Loehmann has been reported as “emotionally unstable” in a series of documents […]