Free Republic

The family of Tamir Rice has spoken out publicly to denounce civil rights activist, Shaun King. Considered a fund raising fraud, King has frequently been accused of using an anti-police, pro-critical race theory platform for profit and notoriety. Samaria Rice, mother of the deceased Tamir Rice, released an Instagram post calling out King’s new podcast episode titled “I spoke to Samaria Rice this past week.” She accused King of using communications with the family for headline-hungry activism.

Who am I? I am a Black man who happens to be the Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. I am George Floyd…I am Philando Castile, I am Michael Brown, I am Alton Sterling, I am Tamir Rice. Just like most of the Black Airmen and so many others in our ranks…I am outraged at watching another Black man die on television before our very eyes. What happens all too often in this country to Black men who are subjected to police brutality that ends in death…could happen to me. As shocking as that may sound to some of...

Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump is endorsing Kamala Harris for president, citing the California senator’s record on criminal justice and comparing her campaign to former President Barack Obama’s historic White House run in 2008.Crump, a high-profile Florida attorney, represented Trayvon Martin’s family after the teen was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in 2012. He has since represented other families whose children were killed in fatal altercations with white police officers that captured the nation’s attention, like Mike Brown Jr. in Ferguson, Mo., and 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland.  In a phone interview Monday afternoon, Crump said...

Full title:Ohio police urge public to halt Tamir Rice comparisons after cop's shooting of teen with BB gunThe 13-year-old boy shot and killed by an Ohio cop was carrying a BB gun that looked “practically identical” to a police weapon, authorities said Thursday. Tyre King was fatally shot when police in Columbus responded Wednesday night to a call about an armed robbery. Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs displayed a photo at a press conference Thursday of what she said was a “replica” of the BB gun held by Tyre, which had a laser scope on it. “Our officers carry a...

The city on Monday reached a $6 million settlement in a lawsuit over the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy shot by a white police officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center. An order filed in U.S. District Court in Cleveland said the city will pay out $3 million this year and $3 million the next. There was no admission of wrongdoing in the settlement. Family attorney Subodh Chandra called the settlement historic but added: "The resolution is nothing to celebrate because a 12-year-old child needlessly lost his life." The wrongful death suit filed...

The city of Cleveland wants the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by police 15 months ago, to pay for his ambulance ride. According to a creditor's claim filed Wednesday in Cuyahoga County Probate Court, the city is asking to be reimbursed $500 "for emergency medical services rendered as the decedent's last dying expense." An itemized bill from Cleveland EMS includes $450 for "ambulance advance life support" and $50 for mileage, according to an invoice filed with the claim. "The callousness, insensitivity, and poor judgment required for the city to send a bill — its...

Protests and debates have erupted across the nation this week in the wake of a grand jury's decision not to indict the Cleveland police officers who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice. Most of that debate has centered on whether police had real reason to fear for their lives, as the grand jury believed. Few have suggested that Rice -- a preteen playing with a toy gun in a park -- deserved to be killed. But that's exactly what Lt. Javier Ortiz, president of Miami's police union, argues on Twitter during a debate with Billy Corben over the case. Ortiz writes...

Referring to requests by Mayor Frank Jackson asking people to keep their demonstrations peaceful, activist Basheer Jones said, "I want to make it clear to the City of Cleveland, is that you will not determine what civil disobedience means to us. We will determine what civil disobedience means to us. And if that means we are arrested, what that means to you, it means to us." The coalition members are calling for people to vote against Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty in the Democratic primary in March. It was McGinty who announced on Monday that the grand jury voted to...

FULL TITLE: Until White America looks at Tamir Rice and sees their own children, there will be no racial justice in the U.S. ~snip~The failure to indict the police who killed Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Rekia Boyd, and so many others forces an uncomfortable question. Could it be that black people in America (and the West, more generally) are somehow “stained”? Are they marked for special punishment? Is the Curse of Ham real, does that Judeo-Christian mythology from the era of colonialism, white empire, and chattel slavery endure into the post civil rights and ostensibly “post racial” American...

The fight isn't over for supporters of Tamir Rice, in fact, they're calling on LeBron James for help.After a grand jury decided Monday not to indict the Cleveland cops who killed Rice, a 12-year-old boy shot dead while playing with a toy gun, Twitter users flooded the basketball champion's timeline with pleas for him to take a stand by sitting on the sidelines.The hashtag #NoJusticeNoLebron ascended the trending charts - with hopes of using the player's status in the Ohio city to convince the Department of Justice to take on the case."Can we collectively flood @KingJames mentions to remind him...

You must understand, the prosecutor said at today’s press conference, that the pellet gun Rice was carrying was no shiny silver Lone Ranger toy pistol with an orange tip. It was nearly indistinguishable from a real piece, especially from any sort of distance. Which is true: Prosecutor shows Tamir Rice's toy gun next to real gun, says it's "impossible to say which one is real." pic.twitter.com/sjiNLoQxRS— Mike Hayes (@michaelhayes) December 28, 2015 It’s also true that the cops were never told what the police dispatcher heard when the 911 call came in about Rice, namely, that he was probably a...

Tamir Rice Published December 28, 2015 FoxNews.com NOW PLAYING Outside reviews find police shooting of Tamir Rice justified Never autoplay videos A white police officer who fatally shot a black 12-year-old carrying a pellet gun in November 2014 will not be indicted, an Ohio prosecutor announced Monday. Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty said a grand jury declined to charge a Cleveland police officer or his partner in the death of Tamir Rice. The grand jury had been meeting since mid-October. Surveillance video of the shooting showed patrolman Timothy Loehmann, a rookie at the time, shooting Rice as the cruiser...

(CNN)An Ohio grand jury has decided not to return an indictment in the 2014 police shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, prosecutor Tim McGinty said Monday. Rice was holding a pellet gun when he was shot. It was "reasonable" to believe that the officer who killed the boy was facing a threat, McGinty said. The officer was in training outside a Cleveland recreation center in November 2014. The shooting sparked controversy given Tamir's age and the fact that he had a gun that resembled a handgun. McGinty called Rice's killing an "absolute tragedy." "But it was not, by the law...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- An already long-shot effort to recall Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson was dealt a major blow on Wednesday after elections officials rejected more than 98 percent of the 12,887 signatures submitted by the group. Elections officials certified as valid only 260 signatures submitted by recall organizers on Saturday, the County Board of Elections said in a news release. The group needed 12,025 valid signatures from city residents who voted in the November 2013 election to force a recall election. The recall group, which calls itself the Cleveland: A Return to Excellence Committee, now has 20 days to attempt...

The head of the Cleveland Police Union is demanding an apology after Cleveland Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins wore a shirt before Sunday's game that read, "Justice for Tamir Rice - John Crawford." Rice, a 12-year-old boy, died last month after he was shot by a Cleveland police officer who reportedly mistook his air gun for a real firearm. Crawford was shot and killed by police in August while holding an air rifle in a Wal-Mart.

The death of a 12-year-old Cleveland boy fatally shot by police in November has been formally ruled a homicide, according to a county autopsy report released on Friday that found he was struck once in the abdomen. Tamir Rice, who was black, was shot on Nov. 22 by a white police officer responding to a call of a suspect waving a handgun around in a Cleveland park. The weapon turned out to be a replica that typically fires plastic pellets. The sixth-grader died the next day. The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's autopsy report said Rice sustained a single wound to...

The family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot and killed by Cleveland police last month, said at an emotional press conference Monday that prosecutors should indict the responsible officer without consulting a grand jury. They were joined by attorney Benjamin Crump, who represented the families of Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin and now represents the Rice family. [...] The shooting of Tamir Rice, who was playing with a toy gun at park nearby his house, was captured on video, and shows the officers opening fire on the child within seconds of arriving on the scene.