'America has no dreams for black and brown people:' Samaria Rice's continuing journey, 5 years after
5 years after police killed her son Tamir.
A heartbreaking legacy. 
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- In the final lines of a letter penned to her dead son on what would have been Tamir Rice’s 17th birthday, Samaria Rice promised him she would never let his death at the hands of a Cleveland police officer be in vain.
In that message, which was published in Essence magazine in June, Rice told her son that she knows he will be with her, every step of her fight for his legacy.
"Ask me how I know?" she wrote. "I feel you when I breathe."
Today marks five years since 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by a Cleveland police officer while playing with a pellet gun in the park outside the Cudell Recreation Center on the city’s West Side. Tamir’s death anointed him as one of America’s youngest casualties of police use of deadly force against people of color, and his story continues to fuel the Black Lives Matter movement.
In a recent interview with cleveland.com, Samaria Rice spoke about her rocky path toward activism, the grief of the past half-decade, and what it takes to rise each morning and find meaning in her loss – one breath at a time.
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