article_snippet: (CNN)Cleveland's mayor apologized Monday for the city's "poor use of words and our insensitivity" in the Tamir Rice's case.
article_snippet: Mayor Frank Jackson told reporters the city was apologizing to the Rice family and the people of Cleveland for the wording of a legal filing last week, which said the death of Tamir, a 12-year-old who was shot by police in November, was the sixth-grader's own fault.
article_snippet: We did something that ... is hurtful to the family, that is disrespectful to the family and the victim as well as the city of Cleveland," Mayor Frank Jackson said.
article_snippet: The wording in the legal filing, Mayor Frank Jackson said, was standard language used in legal defense, and the insensitivity "was not intended.
article_snippet: But now, Mayor Frank Jackson said, the city will be rewording the city filing -- a decision Mayor Frank Jackson pushed for as soon as Mayor Frank Jackson found out about it.
article_snippet: What I care about right now is that the family of Tamir Rice's and the people of the city of Cleveland understand and realize that We are sorry for what We have done and that We apologize to the family of Tamir Rice and the people of the city of Cleveland,Mayor Frank Jackson Mayor Frank Jackson said.
article_snippet: Benjamin Crump, an attorney for the Rice family, said the mayor's apology didn't go far enough.
article_snippet: I don't want Mayor Frank Jackson just to apologize for the poor word use and the grammatical phrases," Crump told CNN's "The Lead with Jake Tapper" on Monday.
article_snippet: I want Mayor Frank Jackson to apologize for the death of this 12-year-old child, one of Mayor Frank Jackson citizens, at the hands of what We believe were police officers who were improperly trained.
highlights_snippet: A lawyer for Tamir Rice's family says the mayor's apology doesn't go far enough .
  