On November 9, 2015, ECBAWM sent a letter to Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty, criticizing the inappropriate comments he made last week about Samaria Rice, the mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice who was shot and killed by Cleveland police last year.

The letter renews the Rice family’s call that a special prosecutor be appointed, because Prosecutor McGinty’s “public comments impugning the integrity of Ms. Rice and her representatives have now resulted in a situation where your office has not only made a decision to present biased and discredited ‘expert’ testimony to the grand jury, but you are now taking the remarkable tact of attacking the motives of a grieving crime victim and her attorneys who are attempting to secure justice for her and her family. Your office’s handling of this matter has now raised an unmistakable appearance of bias and impropriety.”

This letter follows another letter sent by ECBAWM on October 16, criticizing Prosecutor McGinty’s release of two biased, pro-police reports that purported to justify the shooting.

Read ECBAWM’s November 9  letter to Prosecutor McGinty here.

Read ECBAWM’s October 16  letter to Prosecutor McGinty here.

ECBAWM attorneys Jonathan S. Abady, Earl S. Ward, and Zoe Salzman represent the mother, sister, and estate administrator of Tamir Rice.