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Boy’s Family in US Police Shooting Settles for $6M

The family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African American boy whose fatal shooting in 2014 by a white Cleveland, Ohio, police officer sparked national outrage and unrest, will receive a $6 million settlement. Family attorney Subodh Chandra said the settlement "is nothing to celebrate, because a 12-year-old boy lost his life." The suit alleged police acted recklessly when officer Timothy Loehmann shot Rice within two seconds of arriving at the scene in a car. The Rice family...


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