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The Cleveland Police have released a video recording of the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice at the Cudell Recreation Center in Cleveland on Nov. 22. The boy reportedly had an airgun.
The bhe video shows a 12-year-old boy walking around with and waving a pellet gun and then being fatally shot by a rookie officer seconds after he arrived on the scene. The black-and-white video is grainy, and Tamir Rice’s movements appear jerky and are hard to decipher at times. But he can been seen pacing on the sidewalk of Cudell Recreation Center, the silhouette of his Airsoft pistol plainly visible. A 911 caller, who was sitting in a nearby gazebo, told police several times that the weapon was probably a fake, but the dispatcher did not relay that information to the responding officers, referring to it only as “a gun,” police tapes show.
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