22 was the three-month anniversary of the murder of Tamir Rice outside a Cleveland recreation center. Fulton encouraged everyone to stay active and never stop fighting for justice.įeb.
When the two women entered the hall, everyone leapt to their feet to applaud the women for their incredible courage. Fulton had spent the morning with Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice. 21, Sabrina Fulton, mother of murdered teen Trayvon Martin, spoke to an overflow crowd at the Cleveland Public Library. The judge asked how it could be disorderly conduct when there is no law against holding up a sign at Council meetings.
23, when Drain had his ticket for disorderly conduct thrown out in Cleveland court. Instead police held her down on the ground, suffocating her. 20 after her family made a 911 emergency call for help getting their daughter to the hospital. Anderson was killed by Cleveland police on Nov. 9 at a Cleveland City Council meeting for holding up a sign calling for justice for Tanisha Anderson. You are the epitome of Black Queens and we will continue to fight for your King Tamir.It has been over three months since Cleveland police brutally murdered two people in one month - 12-year old Tamir Rice and before him Tanisha Anderson.Ĭourtney Drain, an activist in the fight against police violence, was arrested on Feb. Samaria, Latonya, Tajai you are in our hearts, you are in our prayers, and you are symbols of strength. Please continue to demand justice for Tamir Rice. Police departments across the United States are using the “reasonable cause” clause to justify the senseless murders of black people and this must be stopped. It explains how the Planned Parenthood shooter shot and killed police, yet walked out alive. We must recognize that the police are simply choosing to murder Black people.This explains how a white woman in Connecticut pointed a gun at police and walked away alive. If Murderer Loehmann had his gun taken away after his previous offenses within the department, our Young King Tamir would still be with us.
Deweaponization of all police with previous offenses while on and off duty needs to occur. Cleveland Prosecutor, Tim McGinty must be fired. There must be a federal investigation in the murder of Tamir Rice. This narrative is becoming too familiar–police murder a black woman, man, or child, and no one is held accountable. This “justice” system deemed the murder of a child with a toy, justifiable. The same system that murdered Tamir failed to give him justice. I knew then that there would be no justice but my heart kept telling me they wouldn’t do this, they must have some compassion for a child. McGinty’s Communications Director laughed in our faces with a smirk as he dismissed our demands and walked away. We experienced the blatant disrespect and disregard that Tim McGinty and his staff have for the Rice family. With Tamir’s cousin, Latonya Goldsby, as our leader, we delivered petitions calling for Prosecutor McGinty to recuse himself and appoint a special prosecutor to Tamir’s case. We tried to be as strong as Samaria and Tajai Rice who stood in the same spot that their loved one was murdered.įollowing this was the day of action. It felt as if the snow was falling as a representation of the tears that we were all holding in.
As we stood at the park where Tamir was murdered, it was a group of activists turned mourners. I traveled to Cleveland to join my fellow Black Lives Matter activists, the leaders of Get Equal, and Tamir’s family for #OneYearWithoutTamir. Hearing that there was no indictment led me to recall this past November.
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