-My son is gone, and I want to know
how long I have to wait for justice.
I'm Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir Rice,
from Cleveland, Ohio.
My son was 12 years old when he got murdered
for playing with a toy gun at the park.
♪ Happy Birthday to you ♪
-When Tamir turned 18 years old on the 25th,
and he was supposed to be graduating also this year,
so many people have already started
celebrating Tamir's birthday in the city of Cleveland,
honoring Tamir and other loved ones,
as well, that has died on behalf of the police.
They kind of really took that momentum away from me.
So I'm just gonna do the best that I can this week
and try to get through this week 'cause it's really tough.
It's very painful to watch another black or brown person
get murdered on the hands of law enforcement.
We all developed PTSD after the murder of Tamir.
It's real hard and difficult
when things keep happening in America.
It kind of reopens everything for us
because Tamir's name is mentioned so much.
So I think as the family -- We get a direct impact
every time something like this happens.
My kids suffer daily with PTSD, and my youngest daughter,
when she was 14 -- now she's 20 --
she probably out of the siblings,
she's impacted the most.
She was handcuffed and put in the back of a police car
and forced to see her brother die.
-According to her complaint, Rice says
she was inside Cudell Rec Center
when someone told her police shot her brother Tamir.
She says she ran outside to comfort and assist her brother,
but was tackled by police.
An investigator says she was kept handcuffed,
her clothes wet from the takedown in the snow,
in the back of that patrol car for 75 minutes.
-She has PTSD, and she lost 50 pounds after that.
She struggles with her weight up and down.
She don't enjoy things that she used to enjoy them.
She's a mom now.
The baby gives her a sense of something, I guess, you know.
She's gonna have her days,
and she's probably gonna have her days
for the rest of her life.
♪ Liberty ♪
We are here.
We're intergenerational.
We're multiracial and we're from all different walks of life.
-We have definitely been in a state of emergency
for many, many years, not just because of George Floyd.
We've been in a state of emergency for many years.
And it's a shame that we have to keep seeing this over and over
and over and over again.
It's like -- It is traumatizing
to the humanity of the human being.
It's traumatizing to an American
if you call yourself an American.
With the protests that have happened around the country,
I think that they should be protesting the way
that they protest, but also keep it peaceful.
Don't let the message get lost.
Have a clear agenda, why you're out there.
My thing with defunding the police department and doing away
with the qualified immunity and police bill of rights,
the blue alert, and the Garrity law --
those need to be the demands of America right now.
You know, it's gonna make it uncomfortable in America
to a certain extent,
but they really need to have those conversations
with the Congress,
with the Supreme Court, and the governors right now.
Those are where people need to direct their energy to.
I am going after the entire system --
the police department, the police union,
city officials, government agencies,
anyone who has used the legal system
to justify the murder of my 12-year-old.
I say defund the police department.
Take all their money away.
Give it to the community.
Give it to the schools and to the urban community.
And we need mothers and fathers that want that agenda.
So I'm just tired of having this same conversation.
I've been screaming this my son been murdered.
Ain't nobody heard me.
Ain't nobody sayin' nothing.
You know what I'm saying? Why am I still screaming?
This [bleep] should have been done!
Way before my son was murdered.
Maybe my son would still be alive today
if they'd have did it.