 CLEVELAND (AP) — A video released by the city of Cleveland shows a police officer pushing a 14-year-old girl to the ground and handcuffing her with the help of another officer soon after a third officer fatally shot her younger brother. Northeast Ohio Media Group is reporting that it obtained the nearly 30-minute-long video from the city on Wednesday after the city initially refused to release it. Walter Madison, an attorney for the family, called the treatment of the 14-year-old sister, who he would not name, "the cruelest thing I've ever seen on video." One officer had his hands on his hips when a man, identified by police as an FBI agent who was in the neighborhood, entered the frame and administered first aid. The grainy surveillance video shows the officers struggling with the teen before putting her in the back seat of a patrol car parked next to the where 12-year-old Tamir Rice lay on the snowy ground bleeding. A city spokesman declined to comment about the video on Thursday. The video raises more questions for Madison, who said the family wants to know why Cleveland police hired Loehmann after he was on his way to being fired from Independence police in 2012 and was turned down by several other area police agencies before he joined the city's force. Jackson announced last week that he was handing the investigation over to the Cuyahoga County Sheriff's Department. The county prosecutor is expected to present the case to a grand jury to determine if criminal charges should be filed against Loehmann and Garmback.
– A lawyer for Tamir Rice's family calls it the cruelest thing he's ever seen. In newly released surveillance video, two Cleveland police officers can be seen pushing the boy's 14-year-old sister to the ground as she tried to run to her brother's side just 90 seconds after he had been fatally shot by another officer. After a struggle, she is handcuffed and placed in the back of a squad car just a few feet from where her 12-year-old brother lay dying, reports Cleveland.com, which obtained the video after what it calls "protracted talks" with city officials who initially refused to release it. The video shows that in the minutes after the shooting, police stood around the wounded boy, who had been carrying a pellet gun, but made no attempt to offer first aid. The first person to begin first aid was an FBI agent who arrived around four minutes after the shooting, the AP reports. Tamir, who had been shot in the abdomen, wasn't pronounced dead until nine hours later. "How inhumane to put her in handcuffs and sit her in the car about 4 feet from where her brother lay dying and she has to watch that," another lawyer tells the New York Times. "And they rendered no aid to this kid." Tim Loehmann, the rookie officer who fired the fatal shot seconds after arriving on the scene, was found unfit to serve in his previous police job. Prosecutors are expected to present the case to a grand jury to determine whether Loehmann and his partner should face criminal charges.