For Samaria Rice, moving on from her son Tamir’s death six years ago has been painful. “You don’t get over nothing like this,' Rice said. 'It's an empty feeling of loss when you don’t have your puzzle complete.'
, got dressed to go to the grocery store. She planned to buy the ingredients to cook lasagna that night.
“You don’t get over nothing like this," Rice said."It's an empty feeling of loss when you don’t have your puzzle complete." She couldn't eat or sleep after the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was killed by two white men as he jogged through a Georgia neighborhood, and George Floyd, who died after a white police officer in Minneapolis kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes. The death of Breonna Taylor – a 26-year-old Black woman shot at least eight times by Louisville police who entered her apartment – took her to a"dark place.
Samaria Rice’s 12-year-old son Tamir Rice was killed by a Cleveland police officer in 2014. Tamir would have turned 18 In June. The Tamir Rice Afrocentric Cultural Center in Cleveland, Ohio, is part of Samaria Rice’s efforts to honor the memory of her son by advocating for police reform through more accountability and community engagement.Other Black mothers must also advocate for change to stop the killings, she said.
"He mastered all the sports that could be mastered," Rice said."So the next LeBron James, Odell Beckham. ... I really don't know because I was robbed of that.”Jose Luis Magana, AP
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