, asked the Justice Department on Friday to reopen the case into his death after it was closed in the waning weeks of the Trump administration.
“The truth is this case is tragically simple. Tamir Rice was a boy. On November 22, 2014, he was doing something many boys enjoy: playing with a toy gun in a park near his house,” attorneys for the family wrote in the letter. “The election of President Biden, your appointment, and your commitment to the rule of law, racial justice, and police reform give Tamir’s family hope that the chance for accountability is not lost forever,” the family said in the letter.Rice was playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center in Cleveland on Nov. 22, 2014, when he wasseconds after Loehmann and his partner, Officer Frank Garmback, arrived.
But the video, while grainy, shows what prosecutors need to know, said Zoe Salzman, an attorney with Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel, which is working with Rice's family.
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