On the worst day of her life, Samaria Rice made lunch – turkey sandwiches and fruit cups – for her two youngest children.
She gave her son Tamir and daughter Tajai money to walk to the neighborhood store for snacks. Rice, a mother of four, got dressed to go to the grocery store. She planned to buy the ingredients to cook lasagna that night.
Then a knock came at her door. A group of neighborhood children were saying 12-year-old Tamir had been shot by a police officer at the…