The “police use-of-force” expert who wrote one of two reports that deemed the fatal police shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in November was “reasonable” was also instrumental in clearing Colorado officers in the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old girl.
S. Lamar Sims, a senior deputy district attorney in Denver, Colorado, was hired by the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office to conduct an independent review a Cleveland, Ohio police officer’s use-of-force against Rice ahead of a grand jury trial. The inquiry will attempt to determine whether Officer Timothy Loehmann, who is white, used reasonable force in shooting the 12-year-old Rice, who was black, because he was perceived as being “a serious threat.” Continue reading “Same expert justified both Cleveland & Denver cops’ shooting of minors”