18 As It Always Does By: Joseph Ross Department of English for Tamir Rice, a twelve year-old boy killed by Cleveland Police Department officer, Timothy Loehmann, on November 22, 2014
1. Recreation Something about a rec center should be safe. It should be a place where a twelve year-old boy can play un-murdered. But that is not the way at Cleveland, Ohio’s Cudell Recreation Center. Because Cleveland hires its police officers without exploring their job history, without looking for phrases like “emotionally unstable” or “unfit” for this job. Those words could have been read if someone had looked. The dispatcher was told twice by a caller that this boy was playing with a “probably fake” gun.
