Tamir Rice protest blocking traffic downtown

Officers directed traffic around the demonstrations and no arrests were made during the peaceful protests of more than 100 people.

He also said the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court is looking at whether “grand juries can be improved”.

Photo compilation: 12-year-old Tamir Rice; a comparison of the Airsoft replica he was carrying the day he was killed with a real 1911 Colt pistol it was modeled after, according to officials.

The group’s call for change soon took to the streets as the group marched the police station chanting things like “black kids matter” and “no justice, no peace, no racist police”.

“While the grand jury and the prosecutor have spoken, there remains a multitude of fundamental, unanswered questions”.

Frank Garmback, the training officer who drove the cruiser that day, and Timothy Loehmann, the officer who shot Tamir, might have acted differently if they’d been given that information, said Michael Maloney, Garmback’s attorney.

McGinty, a Democrat, said a series of errors that led to the shooting did not amount to criminal conduct by Officer Timothy Loehmann or his partner, Frank Garmback.

A grand jury on Monday declined to criminally indict the two officers in Tamir’s killing in November 2014.

“It would be irresponsible and unreasonable if the law required a police officer to wait and see if the gun was real”, McGinty told reporters.

About 50 people are marching peacefully in front of the Cuyahoga County Justice Center in downtown Cleveland to protest a grand jury’s decision not to indict two white Cleveland police officers in the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old boy who was playing with a pellet gun.

The US Attorney’s Office in Cleveland is investigating the possibilities of a civil case and is reviewing the circumstances of the shooting. A judge ultimately acquitted the patrolman of manslaughter.

“There’s been lots of cases where he goes out and calls for an investigation and turns out nothing, there’s nothing there, no civil rights violations or any of the civil violations that he had jurisdiction over”, Bush said Wednesday. The Ohio grand jury had heard weeks of testimony on the Rice shooting which occurred within seconds after police reached a park next to a Cleveland recreation center in response to reports of a suspect with a gun.

She said the inspiring, empowering movement symbolizes to those in Cleveland that they are not alone.