Two Cleveland police officers have been cleared of shooting dead a 12-year-old boy who was carrying a toy pistol.<br /><br /> In November last year the officers killed Tamir Rice, one of several shootings around the same time of unarmed afro-American men by white police officers that built into a nationwide campaign for less racially-biased policing.<br /><br /> The Grand Jury cleared the men after it heard evidence the officers yelled for Rice <br />to show his hands and saw him pull a gun from his waistband before one of them fired. The officers also said they were concerned the armed suspect might enter the<br />recreation center.<br /><br /> Both have been on restricted duty since the shooting and will remain so through an <br />administrative review, police said.<br /><br /> Rice either intended to hand over the gun or show the officers it was not real, “but there <br />was no way for the officers to know that,” said their defence counsel.<br /><br /> The Airsoft replica of a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun usually has an orange tip on it, <br />but Ri
