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two Cleveland police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Tamir
Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was carrying a pellet gun, stood by without
rendering medical aid as the boy lay wounded next to their patrol car, a
newly released extended surveillance video shows.
Then,
about a minute and a half after one officer had shot Tamir, the other
officer tackled the boy’s 14-year-old sister as she tried to reach her
brother. Tamir was shot Nov. 22 after someone called 911 to report “a
guy” who had been pointing a “probably fake” pistol outside a community
recreation center on Cleveland’s west side.
The
video, obtained by the Northeast Ohio Media Group, provided fresh
detail about a shooting that roiled Cleveland and quickly became the
latest shooting to be absorbed into a broader national narrative about
police violence in African-American communities.
The surveillance tape also seemed to clarify an issue in the shooting
investigation: that the officers provided no immediate medical
assistance to Tamir, who was not pronounced dead until more than nine
hours later at a Cleveland hospital. An autopsy by the Cuyahoga County
medical examiner later found that Tamir died from a gunshot wound to the
abdomen. In addition, it confirmed the account that Tamir’s mother,
Samaria Rice, gave in the weeks after the shooting, that the police had
tackled and detained her daughter as she rushed out of the recreation
center, trying to reach her brother’s side.
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