CLEVELAND (AP) — Several hundred people are blocking traffic in downtown Cleveland while demonstrating in support of a 12-year-old boy fatally shot by a police officer.
Protesters sat in a major intersection Tuesday, then marched past city hall and down an exit ramp to block a busy freeway. Police observed but didn’t take action against the protesters, who chanted phrases such as “Hands up, don’t shoot.”
They were demonstrating after the death of Tamir Rice, who was shot Saturday when police responded to a 911 call about a gun at a playground. Police later determined he had a pellet gun that looked like a real firearm.
The demonstration came as people across the country protested a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white officer who killed a black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri.
http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2014/11/25/cleveland-crowd-protests-police-shoot-boy/
Protesters sat in a major intersection Tuesday, then marched past city hall and down an exit ramp to block a busy freeway. Police observed but didn’t take action against the protesters, who chanted phrases such as “Hands up, don’t shoot.”
They were demonstrating after the death of Tamir Rice, who was shot Saturday when police responded to a 911 call about a gun at a playground. Police later determined he had a pellet gun that looked like a real firearm.
The demonstration came as people across the country protested a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white officer who killed a black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri.
http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2014/11/25/cleveland-crowd-protests-police-shoot-boy/
