Abstract:
Soon after Christmas, Timothy J. McGinty, the Cuyahoga County prosecutor overseeing the investigation of the police officers involved in the Tamir Rice case, spoke of empathy – or, to be more accurate, he spoke of his efforts to understand how the twelveyear- old Tamir may have felt in the two seconds before he was shot and killed by Officer Timothy Loehmann:
If we put ourselves in the victim’s shoes, as prosecutors and detectives try to do, it is likely that Tamir – whose size made him look much older and who had been warned that his pellet gun might get him into trouble that day – either intended to hand it to the officers or to show them it wasn’t a real gun.
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