Wednesday, June 25, marked what would have been the twenty third birthday of Tamir Rice, who was 12 years previous when he was shot to loss of life by former Cleveland Police officer Timothy Loehmann in 2014, whereas the preteen was enjoying with a toy gun. NBA famous person Kyrie Irving commemorated the event by donating $50,000 to the Tamir Rice Basis, a non-profit launched by Tamir’s mom, Samiria Rice.
As The Black Wall Avenue Instances reported, earlier this month, Rice, who wrote that she created her basis to “put money into the expansion and enrichment of all youngsters,” launched a fundraiser on GoFundMe asking supporters to donate $23 to honor her son for his twenty third birthday with a aim of elevating $110,000.
“I miss my son a lot every day. As our household strategy Tamir’s twenty third birthday. I’m asking for 23 {dollars} for 23 years with out him . I bought a constructing within the metropolis of Cleveland to offer again to our internal metropolis youth with artwork and cultural developments,” she wrote.
In accordance with the Instances, the information of Irving’s “quiet” donation was first dropped at mild by entrepreneur and internet developer Kiandria Demone, who praised Samiria for “turning her ache into objective and pouring again into the group.”
“OMG! Once I noticed the fundraiser this morning, it was at $1,500 with a aim of $6K. In lower than an hour, we bought it to $9K simply by exhibiting up. Then… Kyrie Irving noticed the submit. Now she’s raised 10x her aim! I’m so excited for her,” Demone wrote. “I can’t think about the ache of shedding a toddler, however I really hope that with our help, she’ll be capable to fulfill her dream of honoring Tamir’s legacy.”
Tamir was fatally shot in Cleveland on November 22, 2014. His killer, Loehmann, was by no means prosecuted for taking the kid’s life. In 2017, he was fired from the division, not as a result of he shot and killed Tamir inside seconds of arriving on the scene together with his associate, “however for offering false info on his job software,” in keeping with Newsweek. Since then, he had been employed in 2018 by one other police division in Ohio, however he withdrew his software amid protests from Samiria and different advocates for Tamir. In 2022, Loehmann was employed by one other police division in rural Pennsylvania, however, once more, he withdrew his software amid protests. Final yr, he resigned from a small police division in West Virginia, the place he was “employed to work as a probationary police officer and an at-will worker for the town of White Sulphur Springs,” in keeping with NBC Information.
“The system is damaged as a result of police reform is definitely not working,” Samiria stated on the time Loehmann was employed in Pennsylvania. “You’ll rent somebody figuring out he has murdered a 12-year-old little one. How dare you. How dare you do it?”
Precisely!
