Tamir Rice family to get $6M

Published April 25, 2016 This content is archived.

An article in USA Today about an agreement by the city of Cleveland to pay $6 million to the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black youth fatally shot in 2014 by a white police officer in a tragedy caught on video, quotes Guyora Binder, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Law, who called the settlement “good news” because large settlements typically force cities to closely examine protocols and behavior. “(Officers) are 20 times more likely to kill a civilian than to be killed by a civilian,” he said. “Moreover, these statistics show that police face no greater risk of homicide than the general population.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/04/25/cleveland-pay-6m-family-tamir-rice/83491392/