Samaria Rice’s anxiety fluctuates but seems to reliably spike around her son Tamir’s birthday and on the anniversary of the day a policeman gunned down the 12-year-old.
It’s been more than 8 years since police killed Tamir Rice as he stood outside a Cleveland, OH, community center, holding a toy gun.
When Samaria Rice arrived at the scene Nov. 22, 2014, her youngest daughter, Tajai, 14, was in a squad car and her 15-year-old son, Tavon, was in handcuffs after running to the scene. She had to choose between staying with them or going with Tamir to the hospital.
She chose the latter….
