An Ohio grand jury's decision not to indict the police officer who
shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice -- and the national outcry
surrounding the case -- illustrates both the power and the limits of the
"Black Lives Matter" movement that has emerged over the last two years.
As in the case of Rice, several of the recent
widely-covered killings of African-Americans by police did not result in
punishments for the officers. The officer accused of choking Eric
Garner to death in 2014 in Staten Island was not indicted by a grand
jury, nor was the officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a
few weeks later.
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Source: NBC News
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