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Understanding the pain, grief, and fury of Samaria Rice.
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Understanding the pain, grief, and fury of Samaria Rice.

Over the past few weeks, the mother of Tamir Rice, has posted a wide variety of frustrations and grievances on Facebook. I'd like to try to address them here.

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Samaria Rice has every right to be angry at the world. On November 22nd of 2014, Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann shot and killed her 12-year-old baby boy, Tamir, in what could best be described as a drive-by shooting. Loehmann, who had been fired for emotional instability and gross incompetence from another police department before…

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