Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association president Jeff Follmer told The
Associated Press in an interview that officers had no way of knowing
that Tamir Rice was carrying an airsoft gun, which shoots nonlethal
plastic pellets, when a rookie cop shot him in the abdomen Nov. 22.
Follmer added that the dispatcher followed protocol when sending the
officers on what police call a "gun run."
Surveillance video released by police shows Tamir being shot within 2
seconds of the patrol car stopping near him. In that time, Officer
Timothy Loehmann told the boy to put his hands up, but he didn't,
according to police brass and Follmer. Tamir had nearly pulled the gun
out of his waistband when Loehmann shot him, Follmer said.
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