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Tamir Rice protests planned across US on 1-year anniversary of his murder by Cleveland police

The Stop Mass Incarceration Network has planned nationwide demonstrations on Sunday, November 22, the one-year anniversary of the murder of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by Cleveland police. The protests, #WeAreAllTamirRice, are demanding "Justice for Tamir Rice" and "Police terror and murder must stop NOW!"

Their statement, "Into the Streets November 22—ONE YEAR Since Tamir Rice’s Murder By Police and STILL NO JUSTICE!" begins: “ONE YEAR ago, Tamir Rice was killed in less than two seconds of police arriving to the park where he was playing. The whole world has seen the video...Will the police get away with the murder of Tamir Rice? NO! This cannot be allowed!"

"The cold-hearted police murder of Tamir Rice, the obscene refusal of authorities to even charge the police who murdered him for a whole year, and now the outrageous moves by the prosecutor to manipulate a grand jury exoneration of the killers—this is an intolerable outrage… and it is bigger than that. What is at stake here is what kind of society are we going to be living in? Let’s be real: If police can murder an unarmed 12-year-old boy playing in a park, a child posing no threat to anyone, and get away with it, what Black person, or Latino person, or Native American, anywhere, doing anything, can feel that they do not have a target on their back for police to aim at?"

"Nobody should turn their head and go about business as usual while Tamir’s murderers go unpunished...Which side are you on?"

The Rice family has invited people to either come to Cleveland for activities Nov 20-23 or to do actions in their cities on Nov 22 and/or Nov 23. (Tamir Rice was shot on Nov 22, and he died in the hospital on Nov 23.)

In New York City, there will be a rally beginning at 2pm Union Square, North side, 17th & University Place, Manhattan. At 3pm, there will be a special Children’s March for Tamir Rice marching from Union Square to Madison Square, to put a spotlight on the emergency situation of police murder and to broadcast to the world that their lives matter.

Demonstrations are also taking place in Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, the SF Bay Area, and other cities.

National Schedule of Events November 20-23

Available for Interviews

Carl Dix is the co-initiator with Cornel West of the Stop Mass Incarceration Network and a representative of the Revolutionary Communist Party

Nicholas Heyward, Sr., is the father of 13-year-old Nicholas Heyward, Jr., who was murdered by the NYPD, on September 27, 1994. He was playing with a brightly colored toy gun.