'I'm standing on the steps,' she says, 'and all of a sudden, the crowd went from of folks saying goodbye to, 'Oh, something's happening.' ' It had been less than a year since police shot and killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old who was playing with an Airsoft gun outside a rec center, in the very same city. Middleton could make out that something was going on. In surveillance and body cam tape released by the Greater Cleveland Authority Regional Transit Police, you can see the cop take the kid off the bus and handcuff him inside a sheltered bus stop. Inside, a police officer was detaining a black 14-year-old suspected of drinking alcohol. At the same time people were saying their goodbyes with hugs and kisses, a bus was coming across campus.
The conference ended on a Sunday afternoon.
