Fri 11/22 @ 11:30AM
While there have been a number of dubious police shootings in Cleveland — anyone who follows this stuff can tell you all about the 137 shots — none has had the impact of the shooting of 12-year-old Tamir Rice on November 22, 2014. He was 12 years old, he was playing in a local park with as toy gun, and the officers rolled up on him — a dangerous violation of police protocol — shot him within seconds of arriving, and then lied about it, claiming they had given him a warning. The officer who actually shot Tamir had been counseled out of his previous department as unsuited for police work, and the Cleveland Police Department hadn’t checked his references. Outrageously, he keeps trying to sneak back into police work. Luckily, Tamir’s mother Samaria Rice is on to him and has been at the forefront of keeping him from doing so.
Ms. Rice will be one of the speakers at a City Club forum on ‘The Legacy of Tamir Rice.” She has been at the forefront of making sure there is one, founding the Tamir Rice Foundation to create the Tamir Rice Afro-Centric Cultural Center in the Superior-St. Clair neighborhood to provide opportunities to kids that Tamir never had the chance to enjoy. She’ll be joined by LaTonya Goldsby, president of Black Lives Matter Cleveland, and attorney Subodh Chandra, who represents Ms. Rice (and recently represented Haitians in Springfield, Ohio who were lied about and demonized by Republican politicians) to talk about the state of police reform in Cleveland. City Club CEO Dan Mouthrop moderates.
Go here for tickets. The forum will be livestreamed on the City Club’s website starting at noon. If you have questions, text 330-541-5794.
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