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The shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy (June 25, 2002 – November 23, 2014), occurred on November 22, 2014, in Cleveland, Ohio. Two police officers, 26-year-old Timothy Loehmann and 46-year-old Frank Garmback, responded after receiving a police dispatch call "of a male black sitting on a swing and pointing a gun at people" in a city park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tamir Rice Shooting - Cleveland Police Dispatch Radio )〕〔Tom McCarthy in New York, (Tamir Rice: video shows boy, 12, shot 'seconds' after police confronted child )''guardian.com''. Retrieved November 26, 2014.〕 A caller reported that a male was pointing "a pistol" at random people in the Cudell Recreation Center. At the beginning of the call and again in the middle he says of the pistol "it's probably fake." Toward the end of the two-minute call, the caller stated "he is probably a juvenile."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tamir Rice Shooting: Tamir Rice Shooting 911 Call Released By Cleveland Police Tamir Rice Video )〕 However, this information was not relayed to Loehmann or Garmback on the initial dispatch.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/12-year-old-tamir-rice-shot-cleveland-autopsy-article-1.2043229 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/tamir-rice-shooting-officers-were-not-told-the-gun-could-be-fake-or-that-suspect-was-juvenile )〕 The officers reported that upon their arrival, Rice reached towards a gun in his waistband. Loehmann fired two shots before the zone car came to a halt〔 and within two seconds of arriving on the scene,〔http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/04/1349386/-New-lie-in-the-shooting-death-of-Tamir-Rice-discovered-Police-never-saw-the-tip-of-the-gun-at-all dailykos.com 2014/12/04〕 hitting Rice once in the torso.〔 Neither officer administered any first aid to Rice after the shooting. He died on the following day. Rice's gun was later found to be an Airsoft replica that lacked the orange safety feature marking it as a replica and not a true firearm. A surveillance video of the shooting was released by police four days later, on November 26.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Protests break out in Cleveland over Tamir Rice shooting, Ferguson grand jury decision )〕 On June 3, the County Sheriff's Office released a statement in which they declared their investigation to be completed and that they had turned their findings over to the county prosecutor, who will review the report and decide whether to present evidence to a grand jury.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/cleveland/2015/06/03/tamir-rice-investigation-complete-to-be-handed-over-to-prosecutor/28406351/ )〕 In the aftermath of the shooting, it was reported that Loehmann, in his previous job as a policeman in Independence, Ohio, had been deemed an emotionally unstable recruit and unfit for duty.〔 The incident received national and international coverage, in part due to the time of its occurrence, coming shortly after the police shootings of several other black males. ==Shooting== In a 9-1-1 call, a caller, who was sitting in a nearby gazebo, reported that someone, possibly a juvenile, was pointing "a pistol" at random people in the Cudell Recreation Center. The caller twice said that the gun was "probably fake," but was unable to identify if the weapon was real or not; the orange barrel markings used to identify toy weapons had been removed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cleveland police officer shot Tamir Rice immediately after leaving moving patrol car )〕 According to police spokesmen, it was initially unclear if that information was relayed to the dispatched officers, Loehmann and Garmback, and it was later revealed that the dispatcher did not elaborate beyond referencing "a gun."〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Video Shows Cleveland Cop Shoot 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Within Seconds )〕 According to one report, the 9-1-1 responder twice asked whether the boy was black or white before dispatching officers to the park at around 3:30 p.m.〔 The actual recording of the phone call reveals that the 9-1-1 responder asked whether the boy was black or white three times; however, the question was repeated only after the caller continued describing the color of Rice's clothing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=911 caller: 12-year-old boy shot by US police probably had a 'fake' gun )〕 The caller then left the gazebo, and Rice sat down in it sometime later.〔 According to information reported to the press on the day of the shooting by Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association President Jeffrey Follmer, "(and Garmback ) pulled into the parking lot and saw a few people sitting underneath a pavilion next to the center. () saw a black gun sitting on the table, and he saw the boy pick up the gun and put it in his waistband."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cleveland police officer shoots 12-year-old boy carrying BB gun )〕 Also on that date, Cleveland Deputy Chief Tomba stated, "The officer got out of the car and told the boy to put his hands up. The boy reached into his waistband, pulled out the gun and () fired two shots." According to Chief Tomba, "the child did not threaten the officer verbally or physically."〔〔〔 On November 26, the day a video of the shooting was released, Chief Tomba is quoted as saying, "Loehmann shouted from the car three times at Tamir to show his hands as he approached the car."〔 The entire incident happened in less than two seconds.〔("Tamir Rice shooting video shows cop shot him within 2 seconds" )〕 The officers later found that the gun was an Airsoft gun, which are air gun replicas of real guns and are designed to shoot non-lethal plastic pellets, which had had its orange safety tip removed. Rice died the day after the shooting at MetroHealth Medical Center. The medical examiner clarified the cause of death as being a gunshot wound to the torso, with injuries to major vessels, intestines, and the pelvis.〔 The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office autopsy says Tamir was and weighed . A surveillance video without audio of the shooting was released by police on November 26 after pressure from the public and Rice's family.〔 It showed Rice pacing around the park, occasionally extending his right arm with what could be a gun in his hand, talking on a cellphone, and sitting at a picnic table in a gazebo. The video shows a patrol car driving at a high rate of speed across the park lawn and then stopping abruptly by the gazebo. Loehmann then jumps out of the car and immediately shoots Rice from a distance of less than .〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Video: Cop shot boy seconds after encountering him )〕 According to Judge Ronald B. Adrine in a judgement entry on the case "this court is still thunderstruck by how quickly this event turned deadly.... On the video the zone car containing Patrol Officers Loehmann and Garmback is still in the process of stopping when Rice is shot." Neither Loehmann nor Garmback administered any first aid to Rice after the shooting. Almost four minutes later, a police detective and an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the latter of whom was working a bank robbery detail nearby, arrived on the scene and treated the boy. Three minutes after that, paramedics arrived and took him to MetroHealth Medical Center.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Police Who Shot 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Did Not Give Him First Aid )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=12-Year-Old Boy's Fatal Shooting By Cops Could Have Been Avoided: Family )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Video shows Cleveland officer shooting 12-year-old Tamir Rice within seconds )〕 Rice's mother said that the toy gun had been given to him to play with by a friend minutes before the police arrived, that police tackled and put her 14-year-old daughter in handcuffs after the incident, and that police threatened her with arrest if she did not calm down after being told about her son's shooting.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/09/us/family-of-boy-killed-by-cleveland-officer-to-pursue-criminal-case.html )〕 A second video obtained by the Northeast Ohio Media Group and released on January 7, 2015, shows Rice's 14-year-old sister being forced to the ground, handcuffed and placed in a patrol car after she ran toward her brother about two minutes after the shooting. It also shows that police waited for four minutes before providing any first aid to Rice. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shooting of Tamir Rice」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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