Osaka won the US Open women's singles title against Belarus's Victoria Azarenka 1-6, 6-3, 6-3. For her last singles match at the US Open, she wore a mask honoring Tamir Rice, who at 12 years old was shot and killed by police officer Timothy Loehmann on Nov. 22, 2014. Rice had been playing with a toy pellet gun in a Cleveland park when Loehmann, a rookie officer, and his partner responded to a call. Information that the gun was "probably" fake and that the person holding it was "probably a juvenile" was not relayed by the dispatcher, according to The New York Times.
No one tended to Rice as he lay dying — it wasn't until four minutes after the shooting that an FBI agent who happened to be nearby came to help, The New York Times reported. The following year, a grand jury declined to charge Loehmann. He ultimately was fired from the Cleveland Police Department in 2017 for lying on his job application.
