Cleveland Division of Police

The U.S. city of Cleveland has reached a $6 million settlement with the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old African American shot by police while holding a toy gun.
 
Under the terms of the settlement, Cleveland does not admit any wrongdoing, according to details of the accord announced April 25 by a U.S. District Court in Ohio.    

A grand jury cleared two Cleveland police officers on Dec. 28 in the November 2014 fatal shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was brandishing a toy gun in a park, and a prosecutor said there were a series of mistakes but no criminal activity. 

US police officers shot dead a 12-year-old black boy carrying a replica gun within seconds of their patrol car arriving on the scene, a surveillance video released Nov. 26 showed.
      

Police in the US city of Cleveland shot and killed a 12-year-old African American boy waving around what turned out to be a toy gun at a playground, officials and reports said Nov. 23.