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February 11, 2016

Cleveland Bills Family of Tamir Rice $500 for His Ambulance Ride
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The city of Cleveland has billed the family of Tamir Rice $500 for the
ambulance ride to the hospital after the 12-year-old boy was fatally
shot by a Cleveland police officer in November 2014. This comes less
than two months after a grand jury decided not to indict Officer Timothy
Loehmann in Rice's death. The claim filed Wednesday is "against the
estate of Tamir Rice in the amount of Five Hundred Dollars, which is
past due and owing for emergency medical services rendered as the
decedent's last dying expense." In response, Rice family attorney Subodh
Chandra said, "That the city would submit a bill and call itself a
creditor after having had its own police officers slay 12-year-old Tamir
displays a new pinnacle of callousness and insensitivity."
Topics:Police Brutality

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