Cleveland Cops Didn't Give Boy First Aid for 4 Minutes

Cleveland officials said Thursday officers waited close to four minutes to administer first aid after Tamir Rice, 12, was shot. Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said a detective and FBI agent who were in the area responded to the call for help and began giving medical help to Rice three minutes and 49 seconds after he was shot by rookie Cleveland patrol officer Timothy Loehmann. Surveillance video shows a Cleveland police officer shot Rice no more than two seconds after the officer and a partner pulled up in a car to investigate reports that someone was brandishing a gun at a park, authorities said. Rice, who police said actually had what turned out to be an air gun that looked like a real firearm, died a day after he was shot at the Cleveland park.

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