CLEVELAND — City Council has approved designating the Tamir Rice Butterfly Memorial as a Cleveland landmark during Monday night’s meeting.

This designation comes as next month marks 11 years since Tamir was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer outside the Cudell Recreation Center on Nov. 22, 2014.

He was 12 years old.

“The memorial incorporates a butterfly garden, established by local school children and community members, including Rice’s mother, Samaria,” according to the memorial’s description from the Cultural Landscape Foundation .

The memorial, which features an engraved portrait of Tamir, opened in July of 2022.

"The intersecting paths evoke a dry creek bed, are graded to channel rainwater to the two prominent beds, planted with species selected to attract pollinat

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