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FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2014 file photo, demonstrators block Public Square in Cleveland, during a protest over the police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Cleveland Police did not check on Timothy Loehmann’s history before hiring him. And Ohio law required a felony before an officer would lose his badge. So it was Loehmann who responded to the park where Tamir Rice was playing with what turned out to be a toy gun. Loehmann shot him dead. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Officer who killed Tamir Rice leaves new police job amid backlash

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Ex-cop who killed Tamir Rice appeals to Ohio Supreme Court

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"R.I.P. Tamir Rice" is written on a wooden post near a makeshift memorial at the gazebo where the boy was fatally shot, outside the Cudell Recreation Center in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Tamir Rice shooting probe closed with no charges

By Michael Balsamo and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Union appeals Cleveland firing officer who killed Tamir Rice

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Judge upholds firing of police officer who killed Tamir Rice

By MARK GILLISPIE - Associated Press

Officer in Tamir Rice shooting has suspension cut in half

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Samaria Rice expresses her joy about her plans to open a cultural center in honor of her son Tamir Rice who was killed by police in 2014. In this light-filled room on the second floor, she will create her office space. Samaria Rice purchased the building in the St. Clair Avenue neighborhood for the future arts and mentoring safe place for kids that she will name the Tamir Rice Afrocentric Cultural Center. (Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealer via AP)

Tamir Rice’s mom building center to nurture youth, honor son

By RACHEL DISSELL - Associated Press

FILE – In this Dec. 1, 2014, file photo, Tomiko Shine, left, holds a sign with a photo of Tamir Rice, a boy fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer, while protesting a grand jury's decision in Ferguson, Mo., not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, during a demonstration in Washington. Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams announced Tuesday, May 30, 2017, that Timothy Loehmann, the police officer who shot and killed the 12-year-old boy, has been fired for inaccuracies on his job application, while the officer who drove the patrol car the day of the Nov. 22, 2014, shooting, Frank Garmback, has been suspended for 10 days for violating a tactical rule for his driving that day. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

The Latest: Police union protests discipline of officers

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FILE – In this Dec. 1, 2014, file photo, Tomiko Shine, left, holds a sign with a photo of Tamir Rice, a boy fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer, while protesting a grand jury's decision in Ferguson, Mo., not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, during a demonstration in Washington. Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams announced Tuesday, May 30, 2017, that Timothy Loehmann, the police officer who shot and killed the 12-year-old boy, has been fired for inaccuracies on his job application, while the officer who drove the patrol car the day of the Nov. 22, 2014, shooting, Frank Garmback, has been suspended for 10 days for violating a tactical rule for his driving that day. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Cop who killed Tamir Rice fired for job application omission

By DAKE KANG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2014, file photo, Tomiko Shine holds up a picture of Tamir Rice, the 12 year old boy fatally shot by a rookie police officer in Cleveland, Ohio, on Nov. 22, during a protest in Washington, D.C. Cleveland.com reported newly public recorded police interviews with Officers Frank Garmback and Timothy Loehmann were done within days of the November 2014 death of Rice, who'd been playing with a pellet gun. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Tamir Rice lawyer releases videos ahead of officer hearings

By MARK GILLISPIE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2014 file photo, Tomiko Shine holds up a picture of Tamir Rice during a protest in Washington. A 911 dispatcher who took a call that led to a white police officer's fatal shooting of Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who'd been playing with a pellet gun outside a Cleveland recreation center, has been suspended for eight days. Police Chief Calvin Williams stated in a disciplinary letter Constance Hollinger violated protocol. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

911 dispatcher in Tamir Rice case suspended for 8 days

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911 dispatcher has disciplinary hearing in Tamir Rice case

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Tamir Rice’s mother upset with Cleveland police probe

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FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2014 file photo, Tomiko Shine holds up a picture of Tamir Rice, the 12 year old boy fatally shot by a rookie police officer in Cleveland. Cleveland officials say internal disciplinary charges have been brought against two white police officers involved in the killing of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017. Police Chief Calvin Williams says disciplinary charges recommended against Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback were sent to the city’s safety director (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Disciplinary charges against 2 officers in Tamir Rice case

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FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2014, file photo, demonstrators block Public Square in Cleveland, during a protest over the police shooting of Tamir Rice. The city of Cleveland has reached a settlement Monday, April 25, 2016, in a lawsuit over the death of Rice, a black boy shot by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Tamir Rice shooting: Cleveland settles lawsuit for $6M

By Mark Gillispie - Associated Press

FILE- In this Nov. 25, 2014 file photo, demonstrators block Public Square in Cleveland, during a protest over the police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. The attorneys for the family of Rice shot by a white Cleveland police officer while carrying a pellet gun have asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate both the killing and the conduct of the prosecutor in charge of the case. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Tamir Rice protesters want Cleveland prosecutor to step down

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The toy pellet gun (top right) used by 12-year-old Tamir Rice when he was shot and killed by police in Cleveland in Nov. 2014 is pictured beside a real gun. (Image: Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office)

Tamir Rice’s toy gun ‘functionally identical’ to real weapon: prosecutor

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 2, 2015, file photo, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty speaks during a news conference at police headquarters, in Cleveland. A white Cleveland police officer was justified in fatally shooting a black 12-year-old boy holding a pellet gun moments after pulling up beside him, according to two outside reviews conducted at the request of the prosecutor investigating the death. (Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealer via AP, File)

Tamir Rice case: Officer’s shooting of boy with pellet gun justified, two reports say

By Mitch Stacy - Associated Press

FILE- In this Nov. 25, 2014, file photo, demonstrators block Public Square Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Cleveland, during a protest over the police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. A group of civil rights leaders, activists and clergy plans to seek arrest warrants for two police officers involved in the shooting death Rice. The group plans to make court filings Tuesday, June 9, 2015, under an Ohio law allowing private citizens with knowledge of a case to file affidavits charging an offense and asking a judge to issue arrest warrants. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File)

Tamir Rice case: Enough evidence to charge police officers in boy’s death, judge rules

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