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6 Years and a Poor Video Excuse Later
No justice for Tamir Rice
6 Years and a poor video excuse later, no justice for Tamir Rice
Six years ago on November 22, 2014 12-year old Tamir Rice was shot by police officer Timothy Loehmann in broad daylight and was dead by the next morning.
“No parent should have to endure something like this,” —
Samaria Rice, Tamir’s mother
Samaria Rice is right, no mother should find out that her child has been killed by police officers for playing with a plastic toy.
Everything that took place that day was wrong, from the 911 phone call, to the firing on an innocent boy, to a mother being threatened with being put into the back of a police car for being distraught and distressed after seeing her son shot and her other children surrounded by police officers.
One call changed everything and now one little boy will never grow up and his family will never receive justice for his death.
What exactly happened that day and why has the Justice Department closed the case of Tamir Rice?
Tamir Rice, who loved playing soccer and basketball, was playing with an airsoft gun at the Cudell Recreation Center, a park in the city of Cleveland’s Public Works Department. Rice’s gun was missing the bright…
