The case had provoked the outrage of Americans in 2014. American justice announced, Tuesday, December 29, to close its investigation into the police officers accused of having killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy, in Ohio.

He had been shot by a police officer in Cleveland while playing with a plastic pistol.

The scene, filmed by a surveillance camera, had caused outrage in the United States.

Prosecutors reviewing the investigation "could not find enough evidence to support prosecution of Cleveland Police officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback" accused of killing the African-American boy, said informed the Ministry of Justice in a press release.

"The decision to close this investigation only reinforces the indifference of our legal system to the lives of black people," the powerful civil rights association, the ACLU, immediately denounced on Twitter.

Tamir Rice: a decision castigated by the powerful civil rights association, the ACLU

Justice would have been officers never killing Tamir Rice in the first place.



But the choice to close this case only reinforces our legal system's indifference to Black life.

https://t.co/QNXpj4nNnF

- ACLU (@ACLU) December 30, 2020

Police officers involved in Breonna Taylor's death sacked

Like George Floyd or Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice is one of those whose names have been chanted angrily for months in the United States, considered emblematic victims of racism and police violence.

Conversely, two police officers involved in the death of Breonna Taylor were notified Tuesday of their upcoming dismissal from the ranks of the Louisville police, according to a letter circulated by the lawyer for the family of the African-American.

"(Joshua Jaynes) was at the origin of the arrest warrant that led to the tragic murder of Breonna Taylor," said Ben Crump, a lawyer known for defending many families of African-American victims.

Another police officer involved in the raid was also notified of his dismissal, his lawyer told US media.

These deaths launched an introspection of part of American society on the racial discrimination perpetrated in the country.

With AFP

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