Shooting of Tamir Rice
Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy, was killed in Cleveland, Ohio, by Timothy Loehmann. Rice was carrying a replica toy gun; LoeHmann shot him almost immediately after arriving on the scene. Rice’s gun was later found to be an airsoft replica that lacked the orange-tipped barrel, which would have indicated it was a toy gun. A lawsuit brought against the...
