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Tamir Rice

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Following a grand jury’s failure to indict officers Tim Loehmann and Frank Garmback in the fatal shooting of twelve-year-old Tamir Rice, his mother Samiria Rice has issued a statement.

She remains hopeful that the federal government will review her son’s murder.

According to Jezebel, “The Civil Rights Division within the Department of Justice is also investigating the circumstances surrounding Rice’s death and will produce its assessment independent of the Ohio court system.”

Rice’s full remarks are as follows:

My family and I are in pain and devastated by the non-indictment of officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback for the murder of our beloved Tamir. After this investigation—which took over a year to unfold—and Prosecutor McGinty’s mishandling of this case, we no longer trust the local criminal-justice system, which we view as corrupt.

Prosecutor McGinty deliberately sabotaged the case, never advocating for my son, and acting instead like the police officers’ defense attorney. In a time in which a non-indictment who have killed an unarmed black child is business as usual, we mourn for Tamir, and for all of the black people who have been killed by the police without justice. In our view, this process demonstrates that race is still an extremely troubling and serious problem in our country and the criminal-justice system.

I don’t want my child to have died for nothing and I refuse to let his legacy or his name be ignored. We will continue to fight for justice for him, and for all families who must live with the pain that we live with.

As the video shows, Officer Loehmann shot my son in less than a second. All I wanted was someone to be held accountable. But this entire process was a charade.

I pray and hope that the federal government will investigate this case.

Statement Source: The Washington Post

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Tamir Rice’s Mother, Samiria Rice Releases A Statement On Non-Indictment: ‘The Justice System Is Corrupt’  was originally published on hellobeautiful.com

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