MEDIA
ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Karen
Ramspacher
HUNDREDS OF MOMS TO PROTEST IN
TIMES SQUARE ON WEDNESDAY
TO DEMAND JUSTICE FOR MURDERED
12-YEAR-OLD TAMIR RICE
and CALL FOR AN END TO RACIST
POLICING
EVENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH
PEOPLE OF COLOR NATIONWIDE
TAKES PLACE WED., DEC. 17, AT
5:00 PM
SOUTHEAST CORNER OF B’WAY and
44TH ACROSS FROM TOYS R US
WHAT: A CALL TO MOMS to join a rally to demand justice for 12‑year-old
Tamir Rice, shot
by Cleveland police on November 22 for holding a toy gun. Stand in solidarity with his mother calling
for the conviction of his killer, Police Officer Timothy Loehman.
WHY: BLACK KIDS LIVES
MATTER. People who care about a just society demand
that the murderers of children like Tamir Rice be brought to justice.
There is something fundamentally
broken in our system when a boy can have a legal toy gun and by the end of that
day be killed by a police officer. Jeffrey
Johnson, Cleveland City Councilman
WHO: Moms Who Care -- Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). Child
friendly event. For advance interviews, please call Karen Ramspacher at 646-567-7737.
WHEN: 5:00
PM, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2014
WHERE: SOUTHEAST CORNER OF BROADWAY AND 44TH STREET,
Manhattan
(the plaza
across the street from Toys R Us)
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