This is just horrible.
According to Cleveland Scene — the city of Cleveland is seeking to claim $500 from the family of the late Tamir Rice — for the services they provided to the young man — after city PD shot and killed the 12-year-old.
The city filed a creditor’s notice against the estate of Tamir Rice looking for a past due amount of $500.
What’s that $500 for?
It’s “owing for emergency medical services rendered as the decedent’s last dying expense under Ohio Revised Code.”
“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,” one of Rice’s family attorneys, Subodh Chandra, told Scene this afternoon. “The kind of poor judgment that it takes to do such a thing is nothing short of breathtaking. Who on earth would think this was a good idea and file this on behalf of the city? This adds insult to homicide.
“The mayor and law director should apologize to the Rice family and withdraw this filing immediately,” he added.
Flip the page to read the formal claim.