#tamir rice

[whenweallvote]

On this day in 2014, Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a police officer outside a recreation center in Cleveland, Ohio.

Tamir was only 12-years-old. Black boys deserve to make it to and through adulthood.

Rest in power, Tamir — your life mattered.

#Tamir Rice #RIP #OnThisDay

[foreverthirty1]

It’s been 8 years since two white police officers executed 12-year-old Tamir Rice. They shot him through the open window of their car before it had even come to a full stop- that’s how quickly they shot him. The citizen who called 911 to report Tamir said, multiple times, that he was clearly a juvenile and that they were pretty sure the gun he was holding was a fake toy. Multiple times they reiterated that.

I think about this baby all the time. I think about his mother *all* the time. The death of Tamir Rice fundamentally changed something inside of me. It changed my worldview. It changed how I respond to the events around me. It hardened how I view the police in this country and it softened how I view those who push back against them. It changed me. So many incidents, so many unfathomably evil and stunningly wrong incidents, so many countless innocent lives lost to excessive police violence before and since the world lost Tamir Rice. But for me, it always comes back to him. Tamir Rice fundamentally changed my heart and I think about him all the time.

Rest in peace, sweet baby boy.

Black Lives Matter.

#blacklivesmatter #black lives are beloved #blm #abolish the police #police brutality #tamir rice

[intersectionalpraxis]

Do not trust Shaun King -he is an exploitative and chronic scammer. If you have time to watch the original video, PLEASE do.

I'm also adding the free Palestine tag because he's been in these spaces, and I need people to know he will do ANYTHING to get his money. Stop giving him money. He is going on TOUR to talk about Gaza...

#feminist #social justice #shaun king #tamir rice #activism #grassroots organizing #black lives matter #black liberation #fraud #shaun king is a scammer #signal boost #unethical #scammers #education #information #free palestine #gaza

[siryouarebeingmocked]

The Social Commentary™ about cops would work better if it wasn't factually wrong.

In the event in question, some kid was literally sitting in public with a realistic pellet gun, and pointing it at people.

Somehow, that got turned into a "playing with a toy gun" when people wanted to get angry. I once argued with someone who insisted it was a "toy gun" even after I corrected her. It's literally illegal to make toy guns without an orange tip or fully brightly colored.

And this comic’s writer turned it into a “squirt gun”.

Also, the cop who shot the actual kid got fired. He was charged, tried and acquitted. He couldn’t even get hired in a small town in another state before the public outcry lost him the job. The Justice Department investigated. 

The system didn't just call for more training.

I’ve yet to see a single person explain how a cop was supposed to tell the difference between the realistic pellet gun on the top and the real one on the bottom. The best they could do is “well, the 911 caller said it might be a toy gun!”

Great. What did the caller see that the trained cop didn’t? Or did they just assume?

Because they were wrong. Pellet guns are not toys, and are still dangerous. Cops in many countries treat them more or less the same as actual guns.

#dc comics #batman #blacklivesmatter #stupid #police #long #dc #cringe #tamir rice

[noxofspades]

nimona not only spoke to my trans experience,but to my experience as a black autistic person.

The part where nimona was shape shifting into numerous different animals to fit in made me so emotional. Growing up, I'm the only person in my family and surroundings to be mixed with Filipino, Trinidadian, scottish and south African. And I'd try to blend in with all those cultures. But overall, i still feel out of place, especially because of my appearance.

I'm also autistic , and I'd act a certain way to fit in with a group but I was 'too weird' to fit in.

But the most painful parts of the movie is nimona appearing like a child, yet everyone seeing her as dangerous. That is the experience of a black kid, especially dark skinned ones. We were treated as more adult, mature and more threatening. We get disciplined more harshly in school. And it's worse when we are neurodivergent or have mental health issues. There's numerous studies about teachers admitting they see their black students as more grown up. Black kids that are perceived as girls are also more sexualized. Not to mention the case of a cop shooting and killing a 12 year old black boy, Tamir rice, because he was playing with a toy gun. The cop claimed he thought Tamir was a grown man and felt threatened.

so yeah, this movie managed to speak to numerous parts of my life experience. I usually have to ignore a lot of parts to somewhat see myself on screen. But this is first time in my entire life i felt seen. First time I've felt myself. I feel like a whole person being represented. Thank you to all the writers that worked on Nimona.

#nimona 2023 #nimona movie #nonbinary #trans pride #lgbtqiia+ #lgbtq #autistic adult #autistic characters #mixed race #blacklivesmatter #black is beautiful #tamir rice #autistic experiences #actually autistic #neurodivergent

[hopelessromanticsavage]

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#say their names #black tumblr #black stories #breonna taylor #trayvon martin #tamir rice #4 little girls #george floyd

[mymedley]

Tamir Rice

#tamir rice #mymedley

[stormunderthesmile]

Rest in peace, power and love. ❤️🙏🏽🕊️ Tamir Rice would have been 20, yesterday (June 25, 2022). This handsome, precious boy (who would be a man, now) was murdered (yeah, I said murdered) at 12 years old. Of course he was seen as suspicious. Of course cops were called out. Of course the police did not ASSESS the situation first and shot him almost immediately after arriving.

The gun was a toy airsoft pellet gun. A PELLET GUN. Not a real gun. The orange part (that shows it's a toy gun and not a real one) was not put back on by a friend who had fixed it. Still, the caller TOLD the 911 operator that the gun was probably fake. He told the operator this important information. The operator was also told that the person was a "juvenile". Instead of the operator relaying this crucial information to police, she didn't even tell them these facts. You could say the operator (along with the police who killed him) had a part in Tamir's death, then. The officers were not charged...wow. The officer who shot Tamir was let go from his job and last year appealed to the court to get his job back...wow. The judge refused.

And the operator was only suspended for 8 days. Wow...

#tamir rice #tamir #rest in peace #rest in power #rest in love #injustice #blm #black lives matter

[odinsblog]

#politics #police #tamir rice #blacklivesmatter #blue lives murder #defund the police

[emelinet]

say their name.

Akai Gurley. Tamir Rice. Rumain Brisbon. Tanisha Anderson. Bettie Jones. Jason Washington. Robert White. Botham Jean. Ronald Greene. Sterling Higgins. Cameron Lamb. Steven Taylor. George Floyd. Dion Johnson. Keenan Anderson. Keshawn Thomas. Jayland Walker. Christopher Kelley. Donnell Rochester. Jason Walker. Alvin Motley Jr. Ryan Leroux. Latoya Denise James. Winston Smith. Ma'khia Bryant. Jenoah Donald. A'donte Washington.

no justice, no peace.

#say their names #blm #activism #speak out #tamir rice #petition #call to action #lakeith smith #justice #no justice no peace

[reasoningdaily]

Ralph Yarl was on his way to get his brothers. The 16-year-old headed to pick up the twin boys from their friend’s home, accidentally mixed up the address, ending up at a house on Northeast 115 Street instead of Northeast 115th Terrace—an honest mistake anyone could have made. This one nearly cost him his life.

Ralph rang the doorbell, prepared to greet his brother and make their way home. He instead was met by 84-year-old Andrew Lester, who shot Ralph in the head through the glass door. Lester then shot Ralph again in the arm after Ralph fell. Despite his injuries, Ralph somehow made it to not one, not two but three neighbor’s homes, one of which Ralph to get down on the ground with his hands up. A different neighbor finally came valiantly to Ralph’s aid.

Ralph would end up spending days in a hospital recovering from his wounds—for knocking on the wrong door.

Andrew Lester, who shot Ralph, later told investigators he was “scared to death” by Ralph’s size and his own potential inability to defend himself. As much as people would like to believe Ralph Yarl’s story is an outlier, unfortunately, this isn’t the first time something like this has happened to a Black child.

In April of 2018, then-14-year-old Brennan Walker did what many kids have accidentally done— missed his school bus. He stopped by a home that looked safe, one bearing a sign that said “Neighborhood Watch,” to ask for directions. The home belonged to Jeffery Zeigler. Instead of giving the teen directions to his school, Zeigler ended up shooting at Brennan, who ran for his life. Zeigler's wife screamed at the teen and called the police, saying that a Black male was trying to break into her house and her husband chased after him into the yard.

Luckily Brennan escaped, physically unharmed.

Not all kids are so lucky. In June of 2021, Coby Daniel, then 6 years old, left his bike in front of his neighbor’s home while playing outside with his friends. The neighbor, Ryan Le-Nguyen, threatened the child with a sledgehammer, then when back into his own house and fired at Coby, hitting him in his arm. 

In May of 2012, 13-year-old Darius Simmons watched his mother, Patricia Larry be confronted by their neighbor, John Henry Spooner, who accused Darius and his older brother, of stealing his shotguns. When she attempted to verbally defend her sons, Spooner drew his 9mm at her. Darius, who was at school at the time Spooner’s guns were stolen, denied he stole the weapons. Spooner shot Darius close range in the chest. He later died. 

Note the similarities: Zeiglar’s wife assumed that a Black boy who was knocking on her door was attempting to break into their home, Spooner assumed the Black kids in his neighborhood had robbed him, and Lester said he was “scared to death” by Yarl’s size. These are not random wacky misconceptions but are, too often, the biased views neighbors hold about Black children—that they are delinquent, deceptive, and dangerous.

Black children are “adultified” or viewed and treated as adults and even punished like them. Adultification is a legacy of enslavement and results in Black children receiving harsher punishments in school, being 18 times more likely to be criminally sentenced as adults than white children their same age1.

One study found that Black teen boys, in particular, are viewed as “less innocent” and therefore less in need of protection or care, while a separate study found that perceptions around Black teen boys, in particular, viewed them as “adultlike,” bigger, and more formidable.

This misconception of formidability and the absence of innocence leads to fear and suspicion. But fear or suspicion too often leads to Black kids’ harm or worse, their deaths. 

Thirteen-year-old Sinzae Reed was sitting outside of an apartment building. Fifteen-year-old Jordan Edwards was riding in a car leaving a party. Twelve-year-old Tamir Rice was playing in the park with a toy gun. Seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was walking home after school in the rain. Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was spending the summer with his cousins, and with the death of Carolyn Bryant, no one has been held accountable for his gruesome murder to date. 

These were all Black boys who were perceived as community threats. They should've been able to play outside or ask for directions or show up at the wrong door without fear of losing their lives.

These Black boys deserved to be seen and treated as children.

#adultification of Black Kids #adultification is racism. #racism against children #Black Children Matter #From Ralph Yarl to Emmett Till #Neighbors Present An Enormous Threat to Black Boys #Ralph Yarl #Emmett Till #Tamir Rice #Trayvon Martin #Ayanna Stanley

[tittyinfinity]

Tamir Rice would have been 21 today...

#tamir rice #.bdo #acab

[africanamericanreports]

The former police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice in 2014 has been sworn in as the newest officer for the Borough of Tioga, Pennsylvania.

#tamir rice #timothy loehmann #tioga #tioga pennsylvania #african american

[follow-up-news]

The former Cleveland officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in 2014 was hired as the lone police officer in a small Pennsylvania town this week, nearly eight years after the boy’s killing helped spur nationwide protests over law enforcement’s use of deadly force against Black people.

Timothy Loehmann was sworn in on Tuesday in Tioga, Pa., Borough President Steve Hazlett wrote on social media. The vote by the borough’s council came after the Williamsport Sun-Gazette and local media were told the name of the officer. A photo and caption from Hazlett on Facebook clarified that the officer hired to represent the borough of about 700 people was Loehmann, who was fired from the Cleveland Police Department in 2017 for lying on his job application but faced no criminal charges connected to Rice’s death. Rice was carrying a pellet gun at a playground when he was shot and killed by Loehmann in November 2014.

“Timothy Loehmann is your new Tioga police officer,” Hazlett wrote.

#tamir rice

[daughterofdessalines]

Tamir Elijah Rice June 25, 2002

A “Pro-Life” American can NEVER convince me that they give a shit about children (born or un born) this is about all about judgment, ideology and control. If American culture truly honored the lives of children… Tamir Rice would be alive. Period

#black lives matter #tamir rice #happy birthday king

[imkeepinit]

The McCloskeys practice law together as the McCloskey Law Center. Both have been licensed attorneys since 1986.

The now-iconic photo of the couple waving their guns at protesters quickly thrust the couple into the national limelight. As their response notes, the two were invited to speak at the Republican National Convention in August 2020. -- Dan Margolies for KCUR

#Patricia McCloskey #Tamir Rice #that subject which it is always too early to talk about #white privilege