Tamir Rice, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American boy fatally shot in 2014 by police in Cleveland, Ohio
Date of Birth: 15-Jun-2002
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Date of Death: 23-Nov-2014
Profession: pupil
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Tamir Rice
- On 22 November 2014, the 12-year old African-American Tamir Rice was shot by 26-year-old police officer Timothy Loehmann in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Rice was playing with a toy gun; Loehmann shot him almost immediately after arriving on the scene. The two officers, Loehmann and 46-year-old Frank Garmback, responded after receiving a police dispatch call regarding a black male that "keeps pulling a gun out of his pants and pointing it at people".
- A caller reported that a male was pointing "a pistol" at random people at the Cudell Recreation Center, a park in the City of Cleveland's Public Works Department.
- At the beginning of the call and again in the middle, he says of the pistol "it's probably fake".
- Toward the end of the two-minute call, the caller states that "he is probably a juvenile"; however, this information was not relayed to officers Loehmann or Garmback on the initial dispatch.
- The officers reported that upon their arrival, they both continuously yelled "show me your hands" through the open patrol car window.
- Loehmann further claimed that instead of showing his hands, it appeared as if Rice was trying to draw: "I knew it was a gun and I knew it was coming out".
- In response, the officer shot twice, hitting Rice once in the torso.
- He died the following day.Rice's gun was later found to be an airsoft replica that lacked the orange-tipped barrel, which would have indicated it being a nonlethal gun.A surveillance video of the incident was released by police four days after the shooting, on 26 November.
- On 3 June 2015, the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Office released a statement in which they declared their investigation to be completed and that they had turned their findings over to the county prosecutor.
- Several months later, the prosecution presented evidence to a grand jury, which declined to indict, primarily on the basis that Rice was drawing what appears to be an actual firearm from his waist as the police arrived.
- A lawsuit brought against the city of Cleveland by Rice's family was subsequently settled for $6 million in an effort to reduce taxpayer liabilities.In the aftermath of the shooting, it was revealed that Loehmann, in his previous job as a police officer in the Cleveland suburb of Independence, had been deemed an emotionally unstable recruit and unfit for duty.
- Loehmann did not disclose this fact on his application to join the Cleveland police, and Cleveland police never reviewed his previous personnel file before hiring him.
- In 2017, following an investigation, Loehmann was fired for withholding this information on his application.An FBI review by retired agent Kimberly Crawford found that Rice's death was justified and Loehmann's "response was a reasonable one".The incident received national and international coverage and occurred around the time of several other high profile police shootings of black males.
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