Prosecutor Mcginty News Today

Normal. hard for her. im her main support. >> you talked about prosecutor mcginty calling. you all have mince nod words about the idea that that prosecutor in your world view is not doing -- did not stand up for tamir. instead, i think the language that was used is hes acting as a defense attorney for the police. is there any possibility in this case of some kind of justice relative to this prosecutor? >> well, i think its important for us to emphasize the point you just made. which is we did en...

>> this is from the prosecutor, mcginty? >> yes. one of the prosecutors in the grand jury, according to multiple witnesses, got into the well with the grand jurors and was openly snickering and ridiculing the experts that this family presented. it was not a fair presentation. it was extremely dirty pool and so egregious that weve asked the federal government to step in and investigate this case. >> thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. still to come, we cant bid adue to 2015 without...

Protestors around the country took to the streets to demand justice for black americans killed by law enforcement, after all that today, what many had seen as inevitable came to past. it was announced that a grand jury declined to indict the two officers involved in the shooting of tamir rice who was carrying a pellet gun outside a recreation center when someone called 9/11. the grand jurys decision was widely expected after three outside reports commissioned by the prosecutors office found the ...

Human error, the miscommunication by all involved, the evidence did not indicate police misconduct. he had reasonable believe, given the high-stress circumstances in his police training, he had reason to fear for his life. it would be unresponsible and unreasonable if the law required a police officer to wait and see if the gun was real. >> tamir rices family says they werent surprised about the grand jurys decision. in a state tonight, tamir rices mother said, "prosecutor mcginty deliberately s...

Tamir rice to die in the way that he did, it just doesnt make sense and just bone chilling. i dont have words to describe the agony that not only i feel but many in the greater cleveland community feel over what happened yesterday with the grand jury. just this whole scenario, i mean, ayman, we have been going through this over a year. >> right. >> in the city of cleveland and to build up to this, the community no way surprised by what the prosecutor had to say. >> let me if i may read for you a...

Chief williams with prosecutor mcginty, youll see there was a huge difference. mcginty clearly stated and indicated what his opinion from the very start was and showed less than concern for tamir rices family. both the mayor and the chief showed a level of concern and understanding about the sensitivity of the issues. i think to touch on what ari had asked, i think what police officers know, law enforcement knows, those people involved in the criminal justice system, clearly understand there was...

Concludes something. wii going to go through a process. and prosecutor mcginty has drawn his conclusion based on the end of his process. at the end of our process, we will have a conclusion, and that conclusion, as i say, well deal with due process. [ inaudible question ] >> im not going to comment on that. again, youre asking me to comment -- because whatever i say youre going to draw a conclusion from that as to what i -- and when i say that and you draw the conclusion, thats tainted our proce...

The grand jury that the targets of their investigation committed no crime and acted in a way that was justified and reasonable. i mean, think how crazy that is, right? prosecutors dont do that. this is a police case. the targets of the investigation are police officers. because of that, prosecutor mcginty has taken this unusual step of hiring three so-called experts who have come in and told the grand jury that no crime was committed here. and thats just unthinkable. the family has been very cri...

>> so what happened, this is one of the examples of why prosecutor mcgintys handling of this case is so improper and unusual, he allowed officers to read prepared statements to the grand jury after taking the oath, and then he didnt cross examine them. or he perhaps sought to cross examine them and they refused to answer questions. rather than go to the court and seek to have their testimony compelled, he failed to to do that. thats just -- its black letter law. its been black letter law for a l...

Part saying the enhancement definitively disproves prosecutor mcgintys experts claims that tamir was reaching into his waistband and lifting up his jacket. the video continues to reveal police officers rushing upon 12-year-old tamir without assessing the situation. they criticized the prosecutor for releasing the tape to the media without first giving them a copy and their handling of this case. jury selection begins tomorrow in the baltimore trial of police officer porter. hes the first of si...