An Akron, Ohio, teen is “traumatized” after getting shot by a police officer while holding a fake gun.
Tavion Koonce-Williams’ family likened the incident to the death of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot and killed in 2017 by a white police officer who confronted the boy as he sat in a park gazebo with a toy gun in his waist band.
“It’s sad that 10 years after the murder of Tamir Rice, we are still here pleading for the police department to see the humanity in our Black boys,” the 15-year-old’s father, James Koonce, said at a press conference last Friday, per ABC News.
