NY Times: Tamir Rice Would Be Alive Today If He Were White

Posted by | December 30, 2015 13:29 | Filed under: Opinion Top Stories

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The New York Times offers this in an editorial:

Tamir Rice of Cleveland would be alive today had he been a white 12-year-old playing with a toy gun in just about any middle-class neighborhood in the country on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 2014.

But Tamir, who was shot to death by a white police officer that day, had the misfortune of being black in a poor area of Cleveland, where the police have historically behaved as an occupying force that shoots first and asks questions later. To grow up black and male in such a place is to live a highly circumscribed life, hemmed in by forces that deny your humanity and conspire to kill you.

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10 responses to NY Times: Tamir Rice Would Be Alive Today If He Were White

  1. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 30th, 2015 at 13:37

    Of course he’d be alive if he was white. So would Trayvon Martin and hundreds of others who were murdered/executed with impunity.
    In the 50’s they’d just be lynched, but the NRA has made it easier and less conspicuous with a simple tool.
    Sickening!

    • BillPasadena December 30th, 2015 at 14:20

      How is the NRA responsible for what government employees do?

      • mistlesuede December 30th, 2015 at 18:25

        Find a new place to troll. You are a bore.

  2. BillPasadena December 30th, 2015 at 14:18

    I wonder if the person that called the police was white or Black.

  3. Gina Bousquet December 30th, 2015 at 15:12

    Such lovely young boy, executed while playing.

  4. jybarz December 30th, 2015 at 15:58

    Really sad and so true.
    The pigs are licensed to kill.

  5. amersham46 December 30th, 2015 at 17:52

    Regrettably Tamir Rice is only one of many

  6. mistlesuede December 30th, 2015 at 18:28

    What a handsome young kid. Of course if he was white this would never have happened. That’s a given. The entire episode would have been handled differently from beginning to the horrible end yesterday where the incompetent cops are not going to be charged thanks to a system of white privilege and law enforcement protection of their own.

  7. Lyndia December 30th, 2015 at 18:56

    Killed for being Black. He was a handsome young man.

  8. maggie December 30th, 2015 at 20:40

    agree with the headline

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