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January 9, 2015

Extended Tamir Rice Shooting Video Shows Police Failed to Provide Medical Aid, Tackled Sister 
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Newly released video from a fatal police shooting in Cleveland, Ohio,
shows officers failed to provide medical help to 12-year-old Tamir Rice
after they shot him, and knocked his sister to the ground when she ran
to him. Previously released footage showed police shot Rice within two
seconds of pulling up next to him in a park where he was playing with a
toy gun. Following a battle with city officials, Northeast Ohio Media
Group obtained a longer version, which shows Rice did not receive
medical attention until four minutes after the shooting, when an FBI
agent who was in the area came to his aid. About a minute after Rice was
shot, his 14-year-old sister is seen rushing toward him as he lies
behind a police cruiser. Police tackle her to the ground, then handcuff
her and place her in the cruiser, feet from her dying brother. The
footage matches what the sister, Tajai, told The Today Show last month.

Tajai Rice: "I ran to the gazebo, and I couldn't get there all the way
to him, because the officer attacked me, threw me on the ground, tackled
me on the ground, put me in handcuffs, and put me in the back of the
police car, right next to his body."

The video shows it took more than eight minutes for emergency medical
personnel to arrive and more than 12 minutes for Tamir Rice to be taken
away on a stretcher. He was pronounced dead hours later at a hospital.

 

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