It makes me angry sometimes because you can never get over losing a child,
no matter how you lose a child.
I still had nourishing to do for my son and they robbed me, they took it from me.
I will never be able to forgive America for that, you know that, right?
I really within my heart think, if Terence was white,
that Terence would not have been killed.
The judge has said that there's enough evidence to charge Cleveland police officers
with homicide in the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice
who was holding a pellet gun before he was killed.
On November 22nd 2014, the world seen my son get murdered, you know,
and my life has been up and down in the world, let me tell you that.
You know, you got that one kid that won't leave your side,
that was Tamir.
He was a joy to have.
He loved his mama.
He was growing up though, he was growing up …
I think he even had a little girlfriend.
Yeah, his first girlfriend.
Yeah, you know, his first girlfriend.
You know, I'm thankful that I have a video surveillance of my son
because a lot of mums don't.
I'm so thankful for that camera right there.
Do you understand me?
I can sleep just a little bit at night because
if I didn't have that camera, you know I'd still be wondering what happened to my son,
what really happened to my son because if you know how you raise your kids,
you know how you raise your kids.
And I know my son didn't do nothing.
So I would have still been wondering what happened to him.
You know, America y'all need to do better.
Y'all need to do better with these gun laws,
which are racist laws.
I don't understand why there's so much ugliness in America.
I don't understand why.
New York City police are interviewing potential witnesses in trying to mitigate public anger
after officers shot and killed an unarmed man Thursday afternoon.
In 2012, Ramarley was killed by an officer of the NYPD, Richard Hayes.
You know, there was two friends on the corner,
he gave them a pound and this is when two undercover officer saying that
they saw a butt of a gun in his waist and followed him home.
From what I understand, Ramarley was in the hallway, he got shot and fell into the bathroom.
When my mum heard the commotion, she was in the living room which is back here.
I was hiding behind, about right here, trying to see what was going on
when the cops had busted through, they lined up against the wall
as my brother was in the bathroom and they shot him.
How old were you?
I was six.
I still have some memories of him, I kind of get inspiration from him sometimes,
either if I'm in school, I'm having a bad day …
So I'm never, like, angry or anything.
Every time you turn in the news, there's another black boy been killed,
another black person being killed,
a brown person being killed every day.
So that brings up back the memory that you tried to suppress
and that makes me angry sometimes.
You know, a lot of times, black people never see justice.
We never get anywhere, sometimes the cases never made it to the TV,
never made it to the air,
and never made it to court
and a lot of times when we say justice what do justice really look like?
Because I don't have my son, these people go home to their family,
they never get time, they never do jail time,
they get a slap on the wrist, pay a fine or he lose vacation time.
That's not justice.
The last seven years been me being in the street fighting for justice not just for Ramarley
but for all the black and brown boys and girls.
In helping another mother get to where they need to be whether it's fighting or just lending a hand or support,
or just an ear to be on the phone talking to them.
Prosecutors in Oklahoma have charged the white police officer who shot and killed
an unarmed black man.
Officer Betty Shelby is now charged with …
Terence was liked and loved by everyone he came in contact with,
he would give the shirt off of his back.
There was a confrontation with a Tulsa police officer,
his vehicle stalled on East 36th Street North.
That confrontation led to Terence being shot
and eventually he died from the bullet wound.
Every morning that I get up, every morning since that time I get up
and there are tears in my eyes and I think about my son being killed.
I don't think I'll ever get over it.
Yeah, I was sort of like the father of the neighbourhood
and Terence had a lot of friends, a lot of young black males and they would come to our house
and they would play basketball.
We knew it at that time that blacks were more likely to be stopped
so I would always have little teaching sessions.
When I saw the video of Terence walking with his hands up, I knew within my heart
that Terence was following my instructions from what I taught him
and most of the young boys in the neighbourhood …
I feel in my heart that Terence was trying to do exactly what I had taught him to do.
The defence said that Terence was responsible for his own death.
I just want to let people know anybody in our situation where you're fighting for justice,
don't give up, you have to be the voice for your loved one
and don't give up because this is what the system wants,
they want to tear you down, they want to beat you
and make you tired and just like, want to give up but don't give up.
Your family's worth more than that.
You know, I know my purpose and it's just to be the voice for the voiceless, stand up for what I believe in.
Samir's death was the cause of change to me
and I thank God that I was strong enough to deal with it
because some people can't deal with nothing like this, trust me.
Maybe the media might not be here,
maybe the cameras are gone
but our friends and our church members, they continue to put their arms around us
and tell us that they're with us and for us to just stay upbeat.
Once we get up and we come out and meet the public, we wipe our eyes and we stand up and we be strong.