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A 12-year-old little boy playing with a toy-gun… is shot to death ~Tamir Rice
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Today, November, 22, 2014, we all should remember Tamir Rice
On November 22, 2014, 12-year-old Tamir Rice is shot dead by police officers in Cleveland, Ohio. Rice, who was carrying a realistic-looking toy gun at the time, was one of several African Americans killed by American law enforcement at the time whose deaths garnered national attention, making him a martyr of the burgeoning Black Lives Matter movement.
Rice was playing with an Airsoft plastic pellet gun at the Cudell Recreation Center in Cleveland on the afternoon of the 22nd. An observer called the police to report him, specifically mentioning that the gun was likely a toy and that Rice appeared to be a minor. The police dispatcher, however, simply told Officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback that the suspect had a gun. Loehmann and Garmback arrived on the scene and shot Rice in a matter of seconds. Issuing an opinion that both officers should be charged with homicide, a judge would later write, “this court is still thunderstruck by how quickly this event turned deadly.” The boy died of his wounds the next day.
Despite the judge’s opinion, a grand jury declined to charge either officer. The killing of Rice came a few months after the killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown by police in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri, respectively; two days after the killing of unarmed Akai Gurley by the NYPD; and just two days before a grand jury declined to indict the officer who killed Brown. This spate of police killings, many of which were caught on camera and seen by millions of people, led to civil unrest throughout the United States and drew public attention to the excesses of American law enforcement. In 2017, the Cleveland police fired Loehmann, the officer who killed Rice, not for the shooting but for failing to disclose that he had previously been declared emotionally unfit for duty while working for a different police department.
The idea that a journalist, let alone the police and their lawyers blamed Tamir for his own death. This is offensive, tragic, and beyond unacceptable! Right??
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on this day … 11/21 1973 – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon’s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, announced the presence of an 18―-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to the Watergate case.
1620 – The Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA. The ship discharged the Pilgrims at Plymouth, MA, on December 26, 1620.
1694 – French author and philosopher Jean Francois Voltaire was born. At age 65 he spent only three days writing “Candide.”
1783 – The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon. The pilots, Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d’Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes and 5― miles over Paris.
1789 – North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1871 – M.F. Galethe patented the cigar lighter.
1877 – Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph.
1922 – Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve as a member of the U.S. Senate.
1929 – Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali had his first art exhibit.
1934 – The New York Yankees purchased the contract of Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League.
1942 – The Alaska Highway across Canada was formally opened.
1953 – British Natural History Museum authorities announced that “Piltdown Man” was a hoax.
1962 – U.S. President Kennedy terminated the quarantine measures against Cuba.
1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, arrived in San Antonio, TX. They were beginning an ill-fated, two-day tour of Texas that would end in Dallas.
1973 – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon‘s attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, announced the presence of an 18―-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to the Watergate case.
1979 – The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was attacked by a mob that set the building afire and killed two Americans.
1980 – 87 people died in a fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas, NV.
1982 – The National Football League (NFL) resumed its season following a 57-day player’s strike.
1985 – Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested after being accused of spying for Israel. He was later sentenced to life in prison.
1986 – U.S. Attorney General Meese was asked to conduct an inquiry of the Iran arms sales.
1987 – An eight-day siege began at a detention center in Oakdale, LA, as Cuban detainees seized the facility and took hostages.
1989 – The proceedings of Britain’s House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
1992 – U.S. Senator Bob Packwood, issued an apology but refused to discuss allegations that he’d made unwelcome sexual advances toward 10 women in past years.
1993 – The U.S. House of Representatives voted against making the District of Columbia the 51st state.
1994 – NATO warplanes bombed an air base in Serb-held Croatia that was being used by Serb planes to raid the Bosnian “safe area” of Bihac.
1995 – France detonated its fourth underground nuclear blast at a test site in the South Pacific.
1995 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the 5,000-mark (5,023.55) for the first time.
1999 – China announced that it had test-launched an unmanned space capsule that was designed for manned spaceflight.
2000 – The Florida Supreme Court granted Al Gore’s request to keep the presidential recounts going.
2001 – Microsoft Corp. proposed giving $1 billion in computers, software, training and cash to more than 12,500 of the poorest schools in the U.S. The offer was intended as part of a deal to settle most of the company’s private antitrust lawsuits.
2002 – NATO invited Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
2013 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 16,000 for the first time.
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