Tamir Rice was a 12-year-old boy from Cleveland, Ohio, who tragically lost his life on November 22, 2014. While playing with a toy gun at the Cudell Recreation Center, Tamir was shot by a police officer who mistook the toy for a real weapon. The officers had been responding to a 911 call reporting a person with a gun, but crucial information—namely that the gun was "probably fake" and the person was "probably a juvenile"—was not communicated to them. Within seconds of arriving at the scene, Officer Timothy Loehmann fired the fatal shot that took Tamir's life. The incident, captured on surveillance video, revealed the rapid escalation and excessive use of force, igniting national outrage and bringing attention to systemic issues of police violence and racial injustice.