'I'm looking for a conviction': Tamir Rice family wants to bypass grand jury

Frustrated by a lack of grand jury indictments in two recent cases involving unarmed black men who died in confrontations with police officers, the family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot by a cop in Cleveland, wants the officer convicted — and they say prosecutors should skip the grand jury process entirely.

"We don’t need to have another grand jury," Rice family attorney Benjamin Crump said at a press conference on Monday, citing the video that captured the shooting as enough probable cause to indict the officer. "When there is probable cause you can do what the Constitution says and charge the person," Crump said. Read more...

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