(CNN) — Activists and clergy announced Tuesday they have filed what they call citizens’ affidavits for probable cause in the 2012 killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice. The affidavits ask a judge to file arrest warrants for Cleveland police Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback in connection with Tamir’s death.
A Cleveland-area pastor who joined activists in filing citizens’ affidavits in the Tamir Rice case on Tuesday responded to questions he’s heard about why the group is acting instead of waiting on a prosecutor to decide on possible charges. “My question (in return) was: Wait on the same criminal justice system that said it was all right for Mike Brown to get no justice? The same criminal justice system that said it was heroic for (Cleveland police Officer Michael) Brelo to shoot and then load and then shoot again? Is that the criminal justice system we that should wait on?” the pastor, R.A. Vernon, told reporters. “I’m not happy about having to do this. As an American citizen, I wish that I could depend on our criminal justice system to do what was right.”
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