ask the family of tamir rice. joining us now is nbc news correspondent anne thompson, who i believe is live right now heading east on 14th street in downtown new york city. anne thanks for being with us. what's going on where you are? >> reporter: rachel, i am walking east on 14th street with a couple of hundred protesters. i have to tell you that tonight the crowds are more organized, but they're lacking the people who just felt that punch in the gut yesterday when the grand jury did not return in an indictment in the death of eric garner. these protesters are far more organized. they're a smaller group. we walked from soho to union station with a group of anti-racist -- a coalition of anti-racist groups. i asked them, i said what do you want? what is the point of this? they said they want accountability from the nypd, from the prosecutor over in staten island. and they said they're going to be out here every night marching until they get an indictment in the death of eric garner. there is just as much anger out

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than 100 people packed a church in cleveland, ohio on wednesday for the memorial service of tamir rice-year-old african-american boy shot dead by police last month. rice, who was in sixth grade, was killed after a caller reported seeing the boy with what turned out to be a pellet gun, which the caller repeatedly said seemed fake. video shows police officer timothy loehman fatally shooting rice immediately after leaving his cruiser from a distance of about 10 feet. emerged thats have the officer responsible for rice's and death and was deemed unfit for police service two years ago when he worked in the suburbs of independence, ohio. superiorfrom a criticizes his performance in firearms training, saying -- a day after the funeral, attorney general eric holder announced the justice department found a pattern or practice of unreasonable or unnecessary use of force by the police department. >> we have determined there is reasonable cause to believe the cleveland division of public police engages in a pattern and practice of using excessive result of as a systemic deficiencies including insu

the mothers of michael brown, eric garner, and tamir rice.l attend a rally tomorrow either planning for the weekend. gathered in harvard square staging a die-in. with sabrina and rice. each lost a son. they've all had to do what no parent should. mourning a chil

tamir rice was 12 years old. he was in the sixth grade but in under two seconds police concluded he was a 20-year-old man threatening people's lives and decided to fire. police are now investigating the shooting and the office ers involved are on paid leave. and tomorrow tamir rice will be laid to rest. joining me now are cleveland city councilman jeffrey johnson and former prosecutor and msnbc contributor faith jenkins. thank you both for being here this evening. >> thank you, reverend. >> councilman, two seconds is all it took these officers to decide rice was a threat? what's your reaction? >> well, reverend, thank you for having me tonight. it looks like a drive-by where they just didn't take no time. their feet were barely on the ground when the officer shot twice. our reaction is anger and determination not to let this happen again and to make sure that we do the proper review, but there was no assessment. there was no discernment whether there was actually a threat and anything said otherwise is just not t

louis county, it was commenting on tamir rice. the 12-year-old boy killed within seconds of a cleveland police officer getting out of his car to confront the young man. he had a pellet gun with him. and there was a deleted tweet that said kids will be kids on november 22nd, 2014, a cleveland police officer shot tamir rice and goes on to talk about the fact that kids should not play with these kinds of air guns and that parents should make sure they don't do it. it did seem to be very insensitive to people because it was commenting on the behavior of the child and of the parents and not the police. is there a difficulty that police departments have in seeing themselves in the way that the public sees them? >> well, that tone deafness that you're talking about, this inability to see themselves as the public sees our police officers is predictable. and it'll happen again and again and again and the police will defend their officers without really taking the time and effort to understand why millions of americans are unhappy with poli

, whoother of tamir rice has come from cleveland just yesterday.he autopsy released, but when her heart pained, she wanted to stand with the people today. if a bighand to sister -- big aria.to sister tam >> good afternoon everyone. we are all family here, right? i does want to think everybody for coming out. for all of your support. we willss this nation get justice for our children. believe that. like reverend al sharpton said, the autopsy came out. [indiscernible] yet a plug it in. out, and mysy came son's death was ruled a homicide, and everyone should know. with that being said, let that and bringt arrested him in front of a criminal jury so he can get the opportunity to prove his innocence, and we can prove our justice. my son was 12 years old. just a baby. a baby. my baby. the youngest out of four. he is here with me right now and this is what he would want me to do. i want to thank the nation and andworld for the support, that is the only way i am standing appearing out. that is the only way. -- standing up here right now. that is the only w

as soon as the officers pull up, within moments tamir rice was killed. >> three commands were given toise your hands by the officer as he pulled up to the gazebo there. >> tamir died the next day. and police wouldn't let her go to her dying son. >> as i was trying to get through to my son, the police told me to calm down or they would put me in the back of the police car. >> reporter: the county prosecutor said the case will be heard by a grand jury to decide if the officer will face charges. the rice family attorney wants to bypass that process and have the case go directly to trial. >> we talked about it in ferguson, when there is probable cause, you don't have to have a grand jury. can you do what the -- you can do what the constitution says and charge the american. >> this mother wants justice for her son. >> i'm looking for a conviction. >> and joining us is paul cohen, along with walter madison, the attorney for rice's family. and they are telling us the police have 90 days to finish the investigation and they are going to take the case and put it in front of a grand jury and tha

after he had been publicly demanding an apology for wearing this shirt, advocating justice for tamir rice and john crawford, 12 and 22 in controversial incidents in ohio. the union chief said hakins doesn't know if you have e enough to discuss the case and should stick to football. we have been hearing many strong responses from that interview. including his argument that the nfl does have a right to speak about the case. but he must also apologize for those very views. >> he can voice his opinion and this's fine. i'm just saying, calling for justice for his opinion on what happened that day, he's wrong. >> to be clear, are you saying he can state it, are you width drawing a request for an apology? or he can state it but he has to also apologize? >> i'm not withdrawing anything. he disrespected police officers who are out there doing their job. he's sur roubded by police officers. when you're talking about two of us that were put in a situation like these two were, you're talking about all of us. >> what do you think about the concern people have that folks are being killed in some cases

you've had row main brisban killed in phoenix, tamir rice killed in cleveland.ow organizers of these groups have more fuel, people connecting the dots. we met with protesters from ferguson who were here trading game plans with people in new york city. as time goes on, as these cases continue to crop up around the country, this movement is expanding. you even had protests in paris and anchorage, alaska. these aren't places that has this kind of foundation of activism. the movement has no sign of slowing down. in fact, they're kind of growing and expanding. >> i'm intrigued by this protest in times square and the times square toys "r" us. any specific significance by protesters to be in that toy gun section. two people, one man and one child, both killed while holding toy guns. >> certainly. it harkens back to the john crawford case earlier in ohio where there was a gentleman who picked up a toy gun off the shelf and then another person in the store called police saying he was aiming the gun at folks. within a matter of minutes he was shot down and killed by polic

. >> when we talk about what's happening with eric garner or michael brown or tamir rice in cleveland, there's a sense in which people talk about black lives matter and they talk about police and they talk about the kind of gap that opens up between communities of color in particular and police. but there are of course many people who live in both of those worlds. my next guest is one of them. eric adams is the borough president of brooklyn but he spent 22 years as an nypd officer, as a captain in fact. was the founding member of 100 black law enforcement officers who care. an organization of black law enforcement officers. you then went on to be a state legislator. you're now brooklyn borough president. that sound from the head of the patrolmen's benevolent association, that the mayor threw them under the bus, what's your reaction to that? >> i don't think that's true. the pba, pat lynn chrks he's going to protect his members. the mayor has to protect all the people of the city of new york and ensure we have effective policy. so he's going to do and say what he believes is necessary

seen in the security video, tamir rice is waving a pellet gun around the park in cleveland. a witness calls 911. >> in the park by the west boulevard rapid transit station. and there was a guy with a pistol acting like he was pointing it at everybody. >> reporter: police respond, but the dispatch fails to relay a vital piece of information. that it could be a fake gun. >> the officers ordered him to show his hands and to drop the weapon. and the young man pulled the weapon out and that is when the officer fired. >> reporter: 12-year-old rice is pronounced dead at the hospital. the death is ruled a homicide. the weekend after his death and as emotions from ferguson still smolder, another high profile case was coming to a conclusion, eric garner who was taken by a new york city police officer with what appears to be a chokehold died shortly after his altercation with the police. his death, ruled a homicide. the grand jury investigates whether charges would be filed against the officer who did the takedown. after over three months of proceedings, they decide not to indict. debo

tamir rice. when you look at all these cases happening simultaneously, what change needs to happen at a federal level? >> here's the important thing. this morning those of us that convened, reverend sharpton, myself, the naacp, the national coalition of black civic participation, we made a call for 2015 to be a year for jobs and justice. and we think a wide range of changes that certainly can take place. the important thing is, for the justice department in many instances, it's better if they would take the investigations first. maybe not in all cases, but in many instances take the investigations first. and investigate because they have superior person power. they have superior resources. and they're not conflicted because they don't have the same working relationship with local police that local prosecutors have. so the dan zinger brim cadge ca and three cases i would cite. high-profile cases where after the state system failed, the federal system stepped in and secured, not only an indictment

brothers and sisters, now we come to tamir rice., cleveland, are they going to demonize and profile this face? it don't matter what they say about our children. we believe in our children. we love our children. are going to continue to speak up for our children. children.ur we are going to stand up for our children here on the nation's capital and in every courtroom in america. brothers and sisters, without -- ado, i want to introduce our president of our national bar association, the largest association of lawyers of color, who are going to make sure we get due process in missouri, staten island, cleveland ohio, and your neighborhood wherever you are from. we are going to represent. people got water hoses turned on them. we can be safe and go make a lot of money. those sacrifices for us to represent our people. give it up for our president. >> who said an african-american lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite? reverend al sharpton, families of america, i came to let you know that the lawyers of the areonal bar associatio

the mothers of michael brown, eric garner, and tamir rice. in washington, they'll attend a rally tomorrow either planning for the weekend. gathered in harvard square staging a die-in. with sabrina and rice. each lost a son. they've all had to do what no parent should. mourning a child, baby in the public eye in the middle of another painful episode of never easy but important reckoning with race which is a rule that no one seeks but these four women you'll see bear with strength, courtesy, and mixed feelings about race and justice. do you have confidence in the federal investigation that's going on now? >> oh, yes. i have much more confidence in the federal investigation than i did in the local prosecutors. >> do you think civil rights were violated? >> yes, they were. yes, they definitely were. because if eric garner was a white man in suffolk county doing the same thing that he was doing, even if he would have been caught selling cigarettes that day, they would have given him a summons. and he wouldn't have lost his life that day. i believe

tamir rice left on the grown dying before anyone offered him any aid. eric garner lying there dying and people are videotaping it saying this guy can't breathe and this sort of nonchalant reaction of the weem around prince william hp no tomato to offer aid. and then mike brown's bodily lie on the ground like waste for four hours. when people use the term black lives matter, that's what they're talking about. the fact that a human being's demise is unremarked upon by authorities standing right over him. >> you gene robinson, new york city is filled with great emergency medical technicians. eric garner got the bad luck of getting what looks like the worst emt team working in america that day. they, i believe, should have been as much worried about the jut come in that grand jury as officer pantaleo. the idea that only one person there was possibly legally responsible for that death i think is fiction. i think there was a gross der liks of duty by the emts and others. >> i think they may have been the worst emt team in the world operating that day. and fra

we're learning more about how police treated the family of tamir rice, a 12-year-old boy shot by ohioe. after he was killed, listen to his sister described what happened when she tried to run to her brother's side. >> i ran to the gazebo. and i couldn't get there all the way to him because the officer attacked me. threw me on the ground, tackled me on the ground, put me in handcuffs and put me in the back of the police car. when i come running out, they tackled me and they didn't do nothing. they was just standing there looking really lost. >> i mean, faith, her brother was dying. and they tackled her and threw her into the police car. i mean, do they have any legal recourse? >> this is a kid. you look at her, you clearly see she's a kid. you know, these police officers, whether it's with tamir rice, or with eric garner, you see police officers and this pattern of them responding to a scene or to a call, and there's this inability to assess the situation, to assess the real dangerousness of a situation before using deadly force. so it's not surprising that they treated her that way. t

tamir rice was carrying a a toy gun.s shot within seconds of the officers arrival at the recreation park where he was. the child's family has filed a wrong. death lawsuit. they're expected to outline their hopes and plans to seek justice for their son. >> as that is happening, people across the country are calling for justice for eric garner. he, of course, is the man who did after a new york city police officer put him in a choke hold. some protesters in in the bay area of california went a little too far. and in berkeley a protester who tried to stop looters was attacked with a hammer. alexandra field is following this. alexandra, across the country these protests since the decision on eric garner have been peaceful but not so much in the by a area right now. >> so many people, so many demonstratorsened n so many parts of the countries have said they want this to be a peaceful protest and the images we're seeing out of northern california show anything but that. let's start with what happened in berkeley over the weeke

brothers and sisters, now we come to tamir rice.ld, cleveland, are they going to demonize and profile this face? it don't matter what they say about our children. we believe in our children. we love our children. are going to continue to speak up for our children. children.ur we are going to stand up for our children here on the nation's capital and in every courtroom in america. brothers and sisters, without -- ado, i want to introduce our president of our national bar association, the largest association of lawyers of color, who are going to make sure we get due process in missouri, staten island, cleveland ohio, and your neighborhood wherever you are from. we are going to represent. people got water hoses turned on them. we can be safe and go make a lot of money. those sacrifices for us to represent our people. give it up for our president. >> who said an african-american lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite? reverend al sharpton, families of america, i came to let you know that the lawyers of the areonal bar associat

now, brothers and sisters, we come to tamir rice. going to try to demonize and profile this baby? it don't matter what they say about our children. care for our children. we believe in our children. we love our children. to speak up for our children. we are willing to die for our children. because they are our children. if nobody stands up for our children, we will stand up for our children. we will stand together in every courtroom in america. brothers and sisters, without ado, i want to introduce a great leader. also from st. louis, missouri, our president of our national bar association, the largest association of lawyers of color who will make sure we do get due process in missouri, staten island, cleveland and your neighborhood wherever you are from. we will represent because that's what our people expect us to do. that's why people people got dogs and water hoses turned on them. that's a we can make a lot of money. not so we can make a lot of money. but to represent our people. that's why i'm so proud of black lawyers across am

it called for justice for tamir rice. the police union said the team should stick to what it knows best and that would be football. >> jon: wait. stick to what? no football, we're talking about the cleveland browns, right? i mean-- (laughter) random cheap shot at the cleveland browns. look, it's not as if there isn't a conversation warranted about the cleveland police department by t-shirt or otherwise. >> cleveland's police force has been under federal investigation since 2013. the justice department examined over 600 cases within the cleveland division of public police engaged in a pattern and practice of using excessive force. >> jon: well, i guess the only difference is when football players use excessive force, they get penalized. and if that-- 15 yards, am i wrong? (laughter) >> jon: and if that football player disrespected the officer who shot and killed tamir rice, a 12-year-old hold a bebe gun within 12 second of pulling up on him, you should hear what he said about it. >> at his previous job the officer lowman's

. >> the mother of tamir rice who was holding an airsoft pellet gun. today, in cleveland, his mother spoke publicly for the first time. now, for context here in terms of understanding what she says, the family, mother who was speaking here, she lived just across the street from the park where her son was killed. he had been at the park she says, along with his 14-year-old material e sister. >> my name is samaria rice. and on november 22:00nd, about 3:30 p.m., reminding you that i stand right across the street from the recreation center, two little boys came and knocked on my door and said the police just shot your son twice in the stomach. >>> as i was trying to get through to my son, the police told me to calm down or they will put me in the back of the police car. i noticed the police is just standing around and they wasn't doing anything. and, again, i arrived at the same time the ambulance did. so, again, i just noetsed them, they wasn't doing anything. my daughter was screaming for me. and my son, i really couldn't get to him because he was a litt

business as usual got tamir rice shot. business as usual got boyd killed.t accepted by us. so we do die-ins, block highways, have sit-ins in different places to disrupt the normal flow of people's daily lives. >> ifill: tory russell, you're in new york where the occupy movement got its roots on wall street. yet a couple of years later, didn't have leaders, people stepping out saying i'm now in charge and a lotto people had -- a lot of people had diverse goals. how do you know this doesn't turn into that? >> we coordinate with most of the people around the country. what you're seeing is a response from october in october and fergusonaction.com. before i got to new york, i was in cleveland at tamir rice's funeral meeting with organizers in cleveland and some came down from pittsburgh. so this is an organized movement and we have the same demands and goals. >> ifill: jessica pierce, let me ask you whether this is a new face of the civil rights movement. we have been about 50 years, we've spent time walk about anniversaries and leaders who led marchs across bri

the shooting of tamir rice was captured on surveillance video. the officer believed the gun to be real. our justice reporter has traveled to cleveland. evan, i hope you can bring us up to speed in terms of the investigation of tamir rice. at this point the justice department is not investigating. is there a plan to? >> reporter: michaela and john, they haven't said whether they're going to investigate. typically what they do is they wait for the local investigation to be completed and they decide whether there's a need to do a followup federal investigation. you mentioned the attorney general is here today. front and center is the conduct of police and the relationship with communities they're supposed to be protecting. he's doing one of those meetings with community leaders and young people and law enforcement to try to figure out how to better have relationships between those groups, and then he's also, we just got word from the justice department, he's also announcing the results of an investigation into the cleveland police department. they'v

if tamir rice had been a 12-year-old white kid, do you think he'd still be alive today?i think unfortunately where he was suggested a set of protocols and norms that exist within our law enforcement community as relates to the african-american community, and when the word went out that an african-american male had a gun, young tamir was already dead. >> you believe that? >> i believe that. >> why is that? >> my 61 years on this planet. the experiences, significant experiences, my own personal interaction with law enforcement, my father's interaction with law enforcement, as well as my son's, i believe it with all my heart. and data will show it to be true. >> what's your message -- what has your message been to the church and the community? >> as the community is rising up in peaceful demonstrations and as i've gotten calls from pastors from many different segments of our community, it's time for a new message. yes, we want our officers to go home, but we want our children to come home also. so if i believe that there's no reprisal for what i'll do, then i'll act differe

louis, where i'm from in addition to tamir rice in cleveland tanisha rice in cleveland. the time is now and we can't wait when every 28 hours an unarmed black person is killed by vigilanties or police. we're at a good point to start making a pivot in america and show up as a country and be the country that we say we are. >> do you agree? are we ready to have a honest and courageous conversation about these matters? >> i don't know that we're ready, but we need to have an honest and courageous conversation because we keep having the same conversation. we keep going to the same voices, and they keep saying the same things. we keep focusing on police officers who occasionally kill african-americans as opposed to the untold numbers of african-americans killed by african-americans. we don't look at the big issues like the failures of our school systems. out of ten potential points it could receive, it receives two. we don't look at the real fundamental issue. i don't know if we're ready to have this conversation, but we need to have this conversation because we spend too much

behind these killings of tamir rice, eric garner, there are families forced into the public light whilegrief. the mother of amadu diallo, who was killed in 1999 when police fired 41 shots at mr. diallo, striking him 19 times outside his apartment. he was unarmed. police officers say they believed he had a gun. and all four officers involved were acquitted at trial. thank you so much for taking the time to talk about this very painful issue. >> thank you for having me. >> when you see the uproar in response to these recent cases, like tamir rice, what goes through your mind? >> i'm reliving my son's death all over again. people protested it then, and i was hoping all these years later we will not be dealing with the same issue again. however, we all know now, it's not going to stop until we together, community, parents, all races and creed come together and solve this situation because it's getting worse. >> you mentioned there were protests at the time. we all remember those. why wasn't there change out of that round of protests back then? >> i think it takes time. reverend sharpton org

hawkins did not apologize for wearing a red shirt saying justice for tamir rice.ice was shot last month while carrying a pellet gun. crawford, 22, was shot in that walmart while holding an air rifle. the cleveland lewis e police union head not only disagreed with herks akins statement, but argued that athletes have no right weighs in at all. earlier today, hawkins, himself, defended his decision. >> my mom taught me my entire life to respect law enforcement. i have family, close friends who are incredible police officers. i tell them all of the time how they are much braver than me for >> my mom taught me my entire life to respect law enforcement. i have family, close friends who are incredible police officers. i tell them all of the time how they are much braver than me for it. unfortunately, my mom also told me that just as there are good police officers, there are some not so good police officers who would assume the worst of me without knowing anything about me for reasons i can't control. as you all know, and it's well documented, i have a two-year-old little

tamir rice, what else did tamir rice's family and the individuals representing the families have to say about that? >> tony, tamir rice's family has hired benjamin crump. today crump said he strongly believes that this is a case that should bypass the grand jury because in his opinion the surveillance video shows that there's enough evidence to indict the officers in this case right now.today we also heard from tamir's mother who shed more light on what she says allegedly happened moments after she learned that an officer had shot her son two times. tamiria rice says her 14-year-old daughter was handcuffed and tackled by police. take a listen. >> as i was trying to get through to my son the police told me to calm down, or they will put me in the back of the police car. and so of course i called down. and i asked the police to let my daughter go and they wouldn't at that time. and i asked them, you know, what's going on? and they wasn't telling me anything but just calm down, calm down. >> reporter: and last week the justice department released a report that shows that the cleveland poli

tamir rice was carrying a pellet gun when he was shot to death. his mother called for the indictment of the officer who pulled the trigger. bisi onile-ere reports. >> tamir rice's family hired crump that represented michael brown and eric garner's families. the video shows there's enough evidence to indict both officers. we heard from tamir's mum. she explained and shed more light on what allegedly happened after she her her son was shot twice. she said her 14-year-old daughter was tackled by police and eventually handcuffed following the shooting. >> as i was trying to get through to my son the police told me to calm down or they will put me in the back of the police car. and so, of course, i calmed down. and i arrived the police to let my daughter go. i arrived them what was going on. they weren't telling me anything, but calm down. >> the justice department released a report showing that the cleveland police department has a history of using excessive force. sweeping changes are on the way. the family of tamir rice filed a wrongful death lawsui

pattern and practice of using excessive force. >> the report found that long before the shooting of tamir riceficers in cleveland were poorly train odd how to control people during arrests. and some officers didn't know how to handle their firearms safely. the city will work with the justice department to appoint a court-ordered monitor to overseer reform efforts. ♪ ♪ >>> what the police do, the rules that governor what they do, and whether as the president suggested after darren wilson was cleared in missouri, minority communities are not making it up when they complain about their treatment at the hands of the police. all this time on the program. is an encounter on the street with an unarmed man a failure and some in sense not in keeping with best practices if a civilian end up dead. is there reliable accountability for the police. joining for us that conversation, martin pride, former chicago police officer and author of the book crooked city. michael toe bin executive director of the direct of columbia office of police complaints. and margaret burnham professor of law and certificates in

ohio with tamir rice. new york with eric garner. michael brown in ferguson, marlene pennet in the state of california. and i would just, you know, make this comment. when i was mayor of new orleans, i orchestrated and led one of the most successful police reform efforts in the 1990s. we reduced crime. we did it without the kind of incidents that you see here in. and i want people to know all across the nation that you can have a safe community and a respectful police force that works in conjunction with that community. and that is what we see. so my reform the national urban league reforms that really embrace the entire civil rights community is about saying let's take this moment and bring about the change that we need. these reforms could take place at the state and local level. some of them may require national action. but whatever the road to their implementation is, let's walk that road. >> we heard from martin luther king the thard today that the success of his father's movement was not just the march but then the follow-up wi

i'm joined by tamir rice's mother and sister, their attorneys. good morning to all of you. let me start with you first of all. our deep condolences. so much has happened. it's been over three weeks since you lost your son. you find yourself in washington in front of ten temperatures of thousands of supporters black and white. can you describe what that moment was like? >> it was very overwhelming, but i'm blessed to have the support in me in the nation. that's keeping me standing. >> what is it that you want? what did you ask of that crowd and what are you asking of this country? >> i'm sorry. could you repeat that? >> what is it you want to come from this? what are you looking forward to? >> justice for my son and change for the nation so nobody's else's child has to go through this. >> let me turn to taje now. you have not spoken publicly. you were inside the rex center when your brother was shot. can you tell me what you saw and heard when you went out? >> first i was in the bathroom because i had to use the bathroom. then i came out the bathroom and i heard a gunshot. a

including tamir rice, who was carrying a toy gown when he was shot dead. the city can regain the public's trust by letting top leaders go first. >> that needs to be met with leadership saying "you know what, we messed up. the first thing we'll do is resign." the city and justice department have negotiated reforms. the federal moderator will oversee the force. johnson is not hopeful. >> the only hope i have is change. if i don't see it, there's no hope. they have to show me proof. actions speak louder than words. johnson and many in the community are looking for change. but understand, it will likely take time to bridge a gap that existed for decades. not etch is on board with -- everyone is on board with the justice department report. a police union leader spoke out against it, and the mayor of cleveland is not 100% behind it, but the city will comply with the reforms. earlier tamir rice's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city and the two officers involved. >> bisi onile-ere for us in cleveland >>> a 130 mile trek for more than 100 protest

but with the grand jury convening to decide if they will send tamir rice's shooter to trial, an ex-cop questions whether justice is possible in these kinds of cases. >>> athletes and controversy, michael jordan once explained his refuse saal to endorse a democrat by saying, hey, republicans buy sneakers, too. but after ferguson and eric garner, some athletes say they won't keep quiet any longer about their views on some controversial topics. >>> plus, the world lead, two hostages held by al qaeda in yemen are dead after a u.s. special forces team failed to get them out in time. one was hours from being freed. his heartbreaking stories from one of his friends. >>> good afternoon, everyone. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with our national lead. a mother pleading the cleveland police officer who shot and killed her unarmed son at the very least face trial. today, she demanded he be be tried and convicted. he was by himself in a gazebo waving around a toy gun. then two police officers pulled alongside and with scarcely any time for any sort of warnings, officer loehmann s

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