CLEVELAND – Prosecutors in Cleveland are defending their decision to recommend that a grand jury not bring charges against two officers in the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.
Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH'-guh) County prosecutor Tim McGinty says his office was required ethically to tell the grand jury they didn't think a conviction was likely.
The boy's family has criticized how prosecutors handled the case.
A grand jury announced on Monday that no criminal charges would be brought in the November 2014 shooting of Tamir while he had what turned out to be a pellet gun.
McGinty told cleveland.com (http://bit.ly/1RRpVXd ) that prosecutors decided they couldn't get a conviction after seeing enhanced surveillance footage of the shooting.
He says it showed the boy was drawing the pistol from his waistband when he was shot.
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