Cleveland delays tearing down gazebo where Tamir Rice killed
Source: Associated Press
Cleveland delays tearing down gazebo where Tamir Rice killed
Updated 8:07 pm, Monday, May 2, 2016
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland has agreed to a request from the Smithsonian's new African-American history museum to delay the demolition of a gazebo where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot to death by police.
City officials decided Monday to hold off on demolition for 30 days.
Workers expected to begin dismantling the structure this week. It became a makeshift memorial after Rice's death in 2014, which became part of a national outcry over fatal confrontations between black people and white police officers. Rice, who was black, was playing with a pellet gun when a white rookie patrolman, responding to a call about a man waving a gun, fatally shot him.
The museum, scheduled to open this fall in Washington, "is in talks with Black Lives Matter concerning options for preserving the gazebo, given its importance to African-American history," its senior history curator, William Pretzer, said in an email to a city official.
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