Tamir Rice Decision Illustrates Power and Limits of 'Black Lives' Movement

 

By Perry Bacon Jr. 

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