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Let's Wait Until The Facts Are Out Before We Rush To Conclusions About Tyree King's Death
13-year-old Tyree King was shot and killed by police officers in Columbus, Ohio last night. Naturally, whenever something like this happens, there’s a rush on social media to vilify, assign blame, and create hashtags. But we have to keep level heads and refrain from hysterics. Because we weren’t there, and we don’t know who’s really…
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Gazebo Where Tamir Rice Was Fatally Shot Headed to Chicago Museum
The gazebo in Cleveland under which 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot and killed by a police officer is expected to be dismantled at the beginning of this week and sent to a Chicago museum to be displayed, the Associated Press reports. As the newswire notes, the gazebo became a makeshift memorial to the boy, whose…
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Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and the Hypocritical Screams of White America After the Dallas Cop Shootings
There was a moment when white Americans felt the dread black Americans live with daily. It happened Dec. 14, 2012, when a shooter entered a Newtown, Conn., elementary school and fatally shot 20 children between the ages of 6 and 7. The notion of safety was shown to be a fraud. The unfairness and vulnerability…
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2 Ohio Brothers With BB Guns Arrested in Park, Ordered to Write Tamir Rice Essays
The situation is eerily, scarily familiar. Two young brothers from Parma, Ohio, were playing in a park with a pair of BB guns when police were called to the scene. According to the Washington Post, the orange tips that normally distinguish the toys from a real gun had been removed. A 911 caller reported the…
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You Have My Permission To Shin Kick Anyone Who Says "Cosby Is A Distraction From Tamir Rice"
Earlier today, news broke that Bill Cosby would face criminal charges for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand — one of the 50 or so women (this number will never not be outrageous, btw) who have accused him of sexual abuse. Earlier this week, news broke that Timothy Loehmann — the Cleveland police officer who…
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Tamir Rice Was 12 Years Old
I was in the lobby of the Ace — a boutique hotel that opened its doors this month in East Liberty (the Pittsburgh neighborhood I grew up in) — meeting with activist and educator Liana Maneese. We were meeting to discuss her new project — Adopting Identity, which is described on its website as “a movement that…
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12 Year Old Killed By Police; Darren Wilson Preps For TV Interview
It would be very difficult to find a juxtaposition that articulates how many Americans (Black and non-Black) feel about our country’s concept of justice better than two stories I read this morning. From Tamir Rice Shooting by Cleveland Police Under Investigation: The police shooting death of a 12-year-old boy with a toy gun in Cleveland…