Tamir Rice shooting

The mother of Tamir Rice—the 12-year-old Cleveland boy shot and killed by police in November while he played with a toy gun—is reportedly living in a homeless shelter…because staying near the spot where her son died is too painful. Lawyers for Samaria Rice made the revelation in court documents surrounding a press conference Monday. The […]

  The city of Cleveland has placed the death of Tamir Rice squarely on the shoulders of the 12-year-old shooting victim. On Nov. 22, Rice…

CLEVELAND (AP) — A video released by the city of Cleveland shows a police officer pushing a 14-year-old girl to the ground and handcuffing her with the help of another officer soon after a third officer fatally shot her younger brother. The grainy surveillance video shows the officers struggling with the teen before putting her […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — The city is hoping to hand over the investigation of a 12-year-old boy’s fatal shooting by police to an outside agency, as well as future investigations of all deadly use-of-force cases. Michael McGrath, the city’s safety director and its former police chief, has been in talks with Cuyahoga County officials for the […]

The mother of a 12-year-old boy shot dead last month by Cleveland police after he was seen holding a toy gun said today the most agonizing moment was when she had to decide whether to go with her injured son to the hospital or stay at the recreation center playground to figure out why her […]

When 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot by Cleveland police after carrying a toy gun in a playground, a Cleveland reporter looked into his parent’s past to get a sense of the child’s mindset. (Readers, understandably, were appalled let the reporter know.) Now, someone has looked into the policeman who actually did the shooting and it […]

The police officers involved in the fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice have been identified. The Associated Press reports that Cleveland police revealed that 26-year-old Timothy Loehmann, who was appointed to the force this year, was the officer who fired on Rice. The other officer named was 46-year-old Frank Garmback, who has been with the […]