Picketers rally outside prosecutor home over Tamir Rice decision
Protesters in the US State of Ohio picket the residence of Cuyahoga County prosecutor Timothy McGinty over his controversial ruling in the police murder of black boy Tamir Rice.
Holding pictures of Tamir and wearing signs reading “Fire McGinty,” nearly a hundred protesters marked New Year’s Day by marching to the prosecutor’s home on Friday.
The protesters staged a die-in on the sidewalk of McGinty’s house for four minutes: the time the boy lay unattended after he was shot by an officer on 22 November 2014, according to the Guardian.
They were angry over the prosecutor’s decision not to charge the police officers involved in the death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland.
The message was clear: McGinty must go.
“It’s very important for the community to understand that we are doing a rally cry, and vote McGinty out of office,” said Latonya Goldsby, Tamir’s cousin and the spokesman for his family.
Although the latest round of demonstrations in the Tamir Rice case began just hours after a grand jury’s decision was announced on Monday, McGinty had begun to feel the political backlash about a month before. That was when local Democratic ward members blocked his bid for the party’s endorsement in a March primary.
Goldsby said the family and activists would not endorse McGinty or his opponent. Instead, they would wait for “the people’s candidate” to emerge.
Friday’s rally was organized by Black Lives Matter Cleveland. McGinty was not at home and his office declined to comment.
Tamir Rice has joined Michael Brown and Eric Garner, among others, as a representative of African-American men killed by police violence in cases in which the officers involved were not subsequently charged.
Rice was playing with a toy gun in Cudell Park when police officer Timothy Loehmann killed him.
Loehmann and his partner, Frank Garmback, were responding to a call about a “guy” brandishing a weapon.
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