‘I Didn't Know It Was a Kid': Cleveland POs Recall Tamir Rice's Shooting in Released Tape
Footage released nearly two and a half years after the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, 12, show the reactions of the Cleveland police officers involved in the incident. Timothy Loehmann, the rookie officer who shot Rice, remained stoic throughout the interview. His partner, Frank Garmback, got emotional as he walked through the incident with internal investigators. “I didn’t know it was a kid,” Garmback said in the interview.