Reports Find Police Shooting of Black Youth Justified

Two outside investigations have found a white Ohio police officer was justified in the fatal shooting of a black 12-year-old boy who was carrying a toy pellet gun. Tamir Rice was killed in November 2014 outside of a Cleveland recreation center.  Trainee officer Timothy Loehmann shot Rice within seconds of arriving on the scene following a call about a man carrying a gun. Authorities say the gun in question was a replica pistol that shot plastic pellets, but the orange markings...

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