TAMIR RICE, 12 -- KILLED BY CLEVELAND POLICE

[HairOfTheDog]

Fuck! I'll have to view the video later but I questioned earlier what the police were doing until the FBI agent arrived. Now I know. THAT is criminal to me. Not tackling the sister but failing to render any aid. Assholes.

I understand police needing to restrain Tamir's sister as well.

What I don't understand is why they kept her sitting in that police car by herself, looking at her dying brother, after other vehicles had arrived on the scene and there was plenty of opportunity to move her and plenty of officers on the scene to console her. Instead, they treated her like a criminal and ignored her while officers just stood around.

Raging asshole Steve Loomis, the Cleveland PD union boss, answered that question by saying that officers had no way of knowing she was Tamir's sister. Uh huh, there's just no way trained police officers could have known to ask her if she knew the shooting victim.

Many commenters feel that the new video footage released is yet more damning evidence of systemic failures like those cited in the U.S. Department of Justice and The Ohio Attorney General's Investigative Reports.


(Michael McGrath is the Safety Director and Frank Jackson is the mayor of Cleveland, both continue to defend officers' handling of the situation)

Story: http://www.cleveland.com/darcy/index.ssf..._show.html