S Lamar Sims and Kimberly Crawford imply officers’ reaction was ‘fairProsecutor accused of picking experts to defend man who killed 12-year-oldNewly unearthed comments about deadly police shootings made by the two experts who defended an Ohio officer’s killing of Tamir Rice have intensified criticisms of prosecutors for selecting them to review the 12-year-venerable (respected because of age, distinguished)’s death.
One appeared to publicly cast doubt on whether the officer who killed Rice was at fault even before he was commissioned to write a report on the case, the Guardian has learned. The other had her interpretation of a key US supreme court ruling on police shootings rejected by the Justice Department as too generous to officers.
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Source: theguardian.com