Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old kid from Cleveland who loved playing video games, making art, and pranking his friends. Big for his age, he was great at sports like football, soccer, and swimming… but especially at basketball, where he routinely sunk 3-pointers in pick-up games against high-schoolers. He had no fear on the basketball courts… but he would still crawl into his mom’s bed after watching a scary movie.
Tamir Rice was murdered by police on November 22, 2014, while playing by himself at a park. Fooling around with a friend’s pellet gun, another park-goer called 9-1-1 to report that “a guy with a pistol,” adding twice that the gun was “probably fake” and its wielder “probably a juvenile.” Two cops responded. Driving their cruiser directly into the park gazebo where Tamir was sitting, a cop leaped from the still-moving vehicle and shot him twice in the span of two seconds. He was never charged with any crime.
Black lives matter.
