article_snippet: A witness called 911 on November 22 to say there was "a guy with a pistol" and that although the weapon was "probably" fake, Tamir was scaring people.
article_snippet: It doesn't appear the dispatcher relayed the information to Loehmann and Officer Frank Garmback.
article_snippet: Video of the incident shows the two pull up on the snowy grass near a gazebo where Tamir is standing.
article_snippet: In Video of the incident, neither Loehmann nor Garmback appears to provide medical assistance to the boy, and Police Chief Calvin Williams has said that Tamir did not receive first aid until an FBI agent arrived on the scene four minutes later.
article_snippet: Rice family co-counsel Benjamin Crump went on to attack the Cleveland Police Department's assertion, put forth in December, that Loehmann gave Tamir three verbal commands to put Tamir hands up.
article_snippet: It is just incredible that the police officer, based on what CNN see on the video surveillance recording, gave Tamir three verbal commands to put his hands up and drop the weapon, based on what we see in the video.
article_snippet: In December, Crump called for Loehmann and Garmback to be charged and decried what he said was a police tendency to let grand juries determine whether to charge officers involved in shootings.
article_snippet: In Tamir's case, he said, "several things were done inappropriately," which is probable cause to charge the officers.
article_snippet: Loehmann and Garmback have been placed on paid leave pending the outcome of the investigation.