Watch: Cleveland Police Shoot 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Within Seconds of Arriving on Scene

Cleveland has released video showing the moment that 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot dead by police, Cleveland.com reports. Suggested Reading The Real Tea Behind Tina Knowles, Mathew Divorce Suge Knight Claims Tupac’s Mother Made This Shocking Move in His Final Moments Spoilers: Black TikTok Has Theories on Whether Taraji’s Daughter in ‘Straw’ Video will return…

Cleveland has released video showing the moment that 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot dead by police, Cleveland.com reports.

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In the video, which lacks audio, Tamir can be seen getting up from a bench at a West Side recreation center, and walking as a police cruiser pulls up. In a split second, an officer exits the vehicle, gun drawn, and appears to immediately shoot the young boy, who falls face forward. The officerโ€™s partner, who was driving, never exits the vehicle during that time span.

As the news site notes, Jeffrey Follmer, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmenโ€™s Association, said the officer who shot Tamir was a rookie. The officers had been dispatched to the Cudell Recreation Center at around 3:30 p.m. Saturday after 911 calls were received about a โ€œguy with a gun pointing it a people.โ€

The caller reportedly twice told emergency operators that the gun was โ€œprobably fake,โ€ however that message was never passed on to the officers.ย 

Read more at Cleveland.com.

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