Chrissy Suttles, a student at Kent State University, wrote the following article and made this video in remembrance of Tamir Rice:
A crowd gathers around a once unremarkable concrete picnic table, seeking respite from frigid temperatures under a gazebo on Cleveland’s West Side. At the heart of the table, pressed against stuffed animals, candles and brown-skinned angel statues, is a black piece of paper enclosed in a charcoal frame. Written on it is an excerpt from Esperanza Spalding’s song “Black Gold.”
“Hold your head as high as you can High enough to see who you are, little man Life sometimes is cold and cruel Baby, no one else will tell you so remember that You are Black Gold.”
The picnic table sits adjacent to the Cudell Recreation Center, less than a foot from where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a Cleveland Police officer on Nov. 22, 2014. Dispatch alerted officers someone was “pulling a gun in and out of his pants and pointing it at people.” What the dispatcher hadn’t relayed to responding officers is that the caller said it was “probably fake” and that the boy was most likely a juvenile. When Rice didn’t put his hands up at police request, officer Timothy Loehmann fired two shots in two seconds, fatally striking Rice in the torso. Rice had been carrying an airsoft gun. His death was ruled a homicide by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner.
Less than two months after Rice’s shooting, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, more than 100 community members reflect on the incident that tossed Cleveland into the national spotlight.
You can read the rest of the article here.
Source Article from http://www.copblock.org/119990/students-kent-state-remember-tamir-rice/
Kent State Student Remembers Tamir Rice
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