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Moms is against due process for the police.

Via WTSP

Samiria Rice was clear.

“I’m actually looking for a conviction,” she said when asked what her goal would be in getting justice for her 12-year-old son, Tamir.

Tamir was killed last month by police after a 911 caller reported somebody was walking outside the Cudell Recreation Center with a gun. Although it was an “airsoft” gun, police say it was indistinguishable from a deadly firearm.

Samaria said Tamir got the gun from a friend.

“My child doesn’t do things like that. I don’t allow that type of toy in my house around him. Period.”

Police say Tamir didn’t follow orders to put up his hands.[…]

She said police offered her no details about what happened when she was on scene.

“I noticed the police was just standing there and they weren’t doing anything. I arrived the same time the ambulance did.”

Tamir was her youngest of three children.

“Tamir was a bright child,” Samaria said. “He had a promising future. He was very talented in all sports. … The community loved him.”

The family was accompanied by attorney Benjamin Crump and Akron-based attorney Walter Madison. Crump has represented family’s in other high-profile cases, including Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin.

Crump says the family wants to know why the officer who killed Tamir is on “paid vacation.”

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