Governor John Kasich of Ohio expressed his thoughts regarding the 12-year old Tamir Rice who was shot dead in November 22, 2014. The governor called the Ohio grand jury's decision 'controversial.'
A grand jury declined to indict white officer Timothy Loehmann and his partner from the November 2014 shooting that killed 12-year-old, African-American Tamir Rice, for lack of evidence.
A white Chicago policeman who shot a black teenager to death was charged with murder on Tuesday in a prosecution hastened in hopes of averting renewed racial turmoil over the use of lethal police force that has shaken the United States for more than a year.
An Ohio prosecutor handling the fatal shooting by police of a 12-year-old boy while he played with a replica pistol was criticized by activists on Sunday for releasing two reports that called the shooting "reasonable" before any grand jury decision on charges had been announced.
