The FBI and local law enforcement agencies are investigating threats made against the prosecutor who oversaw the investigation that resulted in a grand jury decision not to indict two white police officers in the fatal shooting of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Black boy with a pellet gun.
A spokesman for Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty said he has received a number of threats since the Dec. 28 decision.
Sheriff’s deputies and Cleveland police have been providing security.
Threatening fliers were posted around the neighborhood where McGinty lives, but a spokesperson for the FBI would not comment.
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