A grand jury in Ohio has decided that it will not bring charges against the police officer who shot and killed a 12-year-old boy in Cleveland last year.
CNN noted that on Monday, prosecutors said that no charges will be brought against Officer Timothy Loehmann, who fired the fatal shot, because he felt he was facing a threat from the boy when he arrived at the scene.
As we previously reported, the boy, Tamir Rice, was playing with an air gun at a playground last November when residents called into police saying that the boy was scaring people with the gun because they did not know if it was real or not. When the responding officers arrived they asked Rice to put his hands up but he instead reach for the gun in his waistband and Loehmann shot him.
Rice was transported to a local hospital and later pronounced dead.
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty called the incident "a perfect storm of human error" but said that no crime had been committed.