According to the Cuyahoga County prosecutor’s office, The November 2014 shooting death of the Black child has been considered “reasonable” because of Rice’s possession of a toy gun and officers Timothy Loehmann and his partner, Frank Garmback assumption that the 12-year-old boy would be a threat to them.

On CNN.com’s  coverage of the story, Subodh Chandra–an attorney for the family of the slain Tamir Rice–has stated that the Rice family has demanded that the officers be held accountable, but feels that the prosecution isn’t aggressively advocating the accountability of the two cops.

“Any presentation to a grand jury — without the prosecutor advocating for Tamir — is a charade,” Chandra said. “To get so-called experts to assist in the whitewash — when the world has the video of what happened — is all the more alarming.”

B. Clark

A 12-year-old Black boy was suspended from St. Gabriel Consolidated School, a catholic school in Glendale, Ohio. The reason for his suspension: allegedly staring at a white girl.

When the boy’s parents filed a suit to Hamilton County (OH) Pleas court in attempts to get the suspension erased (because he wasn’t given due process), a judge denied the claim, continuing to uphold the suspension as originally mandated. It turns out that the suspension was unnecessary in the first place, because the boy had been involved in a “staring game” with the white girl. What makes the suspension even more questionable was that the girl was visibly enjoying the game. “I never knew she was scared because she was laughing”, he wrote in a letter of apology to the school…”I understand I done the wrong thing that will never happen again. I will start to think before I do so I am not in this situation (again).”

Court documents show that the white girl “felt fearful”. Although the girl made these claims of being intimidated by the 12-year-old Black boy, it appears that she has been known for intimidating students herself. The same girl that accused my son of this act of perception of intimidation, aggressively poured milk on someone else’s lunch. When she did that there was no penalties for that. She received nothing for that,” said Candice Tolbert, the mother of the 12-year-old boy.

Here’s the link to the story.

Bogus methods of discipline such as these are noting more than white supremacist tactics used to deny our children of the education they deserve. It also invokes the centuries-old paranoia of the white female in distress who is “under attack” by the Melanoid male. It is up to us to ensure that our children are protected, and properly educated.

In the following link, the video clip shows the interview with the boy’s parents, and his mother’s concern regarding her son’s suspension.

http://www.fox19.com/clip/11886590/12-year-old-suspended-for-staring

B. Clark

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