Tamir Rice’s mother on the trauma of loss
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🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This Post Reports podcast is brought to you by Facebook. |
| 0:07.6 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post. |
| 0:11.0 | Hi, good afternoon. This is Tulu, Aurora Nipa with the Washington Post. |
| 0:14.0 | Hi, this is Amy Britton, calling me the post. |
| 0:16.0 | This is Peter J. Abison from the Washington Post. |
| 0:18.0 | This is Post Reports. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Martin Powers. |
| 0:24.0 | It's Thursday, June 25th. |
| 0:26.0 | Today, a mother on what happens after your child is killed by police. |
| 0:32.0 | And how the pandemic is raising concerns about abuse at home. |
| 0:40.0 | Tamir was shot by Cleveland police on November 22nd, 2014 at the age of 12, |
| 0:50.0 | while playing with a toy gun in a park. |
| 0:56.0 | Taylor Turner is a video producer for the Post. |
| 1:00.0 | It's really no way you could prepare yourself for it and it's not easy. |
| 1:04.0 | I'm Samaria Rice, mother of Mayor Rice from Cleveland, Ohio. |
| 1:12.0 | Two little boys came and knocked on my door. |
| 1:16.0 | It had to be about 3.30 and they came knocked on my door and told me to police just shot your son twice in the stomach. |
| 1:26.0 | The toy gun did not have the orange label. |
| 1:30.0 | It's still on it that would indicate it as a toy gun. |
| 1:34.0 | And Tamir was shot. |
| 1:36.0 | He later died the next day. |
| 1:40.0 | So why did you want to talk to Tamir's mom now? |
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