Tamir Rice's family asks Justice Department to reopen case

The family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot and killed by Cleveland police in 2014, 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.

In late 2020, federal prosecutors said they would not bring charges against the two police officers involved, saying video of the shooting was too poor quality for them to conclusively establish what occurred. There were no other prosecutions in the case. In December 2015, a grand jury declined to bring criminal charges against the officers. Rice's family said in a letter to the Justice Department that it believes Trump officials were uninterested in seeking justice for him for political reasons and made the case needlessly complicated.