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Cleveland: Officers to Face Disciplinary Charges in Tamir Rice Death

HeadlineJan 17, 2017

In Cleveland, three police officers will face disciplinary charges in the 2014 shooting death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African-American boy who was fatally shot by police while playing with a toy pellet gun in a park. In late 2015, an Ohio grand jury decided there would be no criminal charges against the officers.

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