Police Gave Boy No Aid After Shooting in Cleveland

The two Cleveland police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy who was carrying a pellet gun, stood by without rendering medical aid as the boy lay wounded next to their patrol car, a newly released extended surveillance video shows.

Then, about a minute and a half after one officer had shot Tamir, the other officer tackled the boy’s 14-year-old sister as she tried to reach her brother. Tamir was shot Nov. 22 after someone called 911 to report “a guy” who had been pointing a “probably fake” pistol outside a community recreation center on Cleveland’s west side.

The video, obtained by the Northeast Ohio Media Group, provided fresh detail about a shooting that roiled Cleveland and quickly became the latest shooting to be absorbed into a broader national narrative about police violence in African-American communities.

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The surveillance tape also seemed to clarify an issue in the shooting investigation: that the officers provided no immediate medical assistance to Tamir, who was not pronounced dead until more than nine hours later at a Cleveland hospital. An autopsy by the Cuyahoga County medical examiner later found that Tamir died from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. In addition, it confirmed the account that Tamir’s mother, Samaria Rice, gave in the weeks after the shooting, that the police had tackled and detained her daughter as she rushed out of the recreation center, trying to reach her brother’s side.

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Tamir Rice Shooting Aftermath
Tamir Rice Shooting Aftermath
The Cleveland Police Department released surveillance footage showing the aftermath of the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, in which his sister can be seen running toward him.

Video by Cleveland Police Department on Publish Date January 8, 2015.
After the second Cleveland officer, Frank Garmback, subdued Tamir’s sister — he pushed her to the ground back-first, tumbling on top of her in the process — the girl was handcuffed and put in the back of the police cruiser, a few feet from her brother.

The officers stood by without tending to Tamir, the extended video showed. It was not until four minutes after the shooting, the video showed, that Tamir received medical assistance when another man was seen bent down next to him. According to Benjamin Crump, the Rice family’s lawyer, the man who provided the first medical assistance was an F.B.I. agent who was in the neighborhood. Paramedics arrived eight minutes after the shooting, and Tamir was taken away on a stretcher about five minutes later, the video shows.

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The police are not going to provide aid if the boy refuses to obey their orders to stop bleeding. No one wants to get blood on their uniform, it's very unprofessional and dry cleaning is expensive.

 

Something something cops suck something ignorant comment something

 

Ohio has had a Good Samaritan law since 2006. The law protects any individual who gives emergency aid to injured people from lawsuits.

https://www.ohiobar.org/ForPublic/Resources/LawYouCanUse/Pages/LawYouCanUse-477.aspx

Ohio’s “Good Samaritan” Law Protects Volunteers


Q: What is the “Good Samaritan” law?
A: The “Good Samaritan” law provides certain protection from lawsuits to people who give first aid or other emergency care or treatment to someone suffering an injury or sudden illness. This statute is listed in the Ohio Revised Code, Section 2305.23.

Q: Under what circumstances does the Good Samaritan law apply?
A: The care or treatment must be given at the scene of an emergency outside of a hospital, doctor’s office, or other medical facility. The law protects volunteers who help when someone becomes ill or is injured in places such as on the street or highway, in parks, restaurants, businesses, even private residences. If someone is already at a hospital or other medical facility, the law does not apply

 

http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/evidenc1.html

Potentially, any police officer can be put into the position of first responding officer to a crime scene. The first officer on the scene of a crime should approach the scene slowly and methodically. In some eases this is not altogether practical. The first officer may also be involved in arresting an uncooperative suspect or performing life saving measures on an injured victim.

 

Sorry, but I cannot find any reason at all the cops should deny immediate first aid to someone they shot.

The exception would be if it were to endanger the life of the cop or others nearby.

 

How about comforting him, praying for him, not handcuffing and taking his sister into custody?

Did any of you watch the video?

 

None of those exonerate the coops in this case.

In fact, your own PDF contains:



And scenarios like arresting the sister is discussed as well:



This bit is good, too: