The city of Cleveland wants the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy who was fatally shot by police 15 months ago, to pay for his ambulance ride.
According to a creditor's claim filed Wednesday in Cuyahoga County Probate Court, the city is asking to be reimbursed $500 "for emergency medical services rendered as the decedent's last dying expense." An itemized bill from Cleveland EMS includes $450 for "ambulance advance life support" and $50 for mileage, according to an invoice filed with the claim.
"The callousness, insensitivity, and poor judgment required for the city to send a bill — its own police officers having slain 12-year-old Tamir — is breathtaking," Subodh Chandra, an attorney for the family, said in a statement to NBC's WKYC-TV affiliate. "This adds insult to homicide."
The family, Chandra added, "considers this a form of harassment."
On Nov. 22, 2014, Tamir was killed outside a recreation center by police who were responding to a report of a person with a gun. The boy, who was holding a toy gun, was shot within seconds of officers arriving at the scene.
In December, a grand jury declined to indict the officers involved in Tamir's death after Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty recommended they not be charged.
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According to a creditor's claim filed Wednesday in Cuyahoga County Probate Court, the city is asking to be reimbursed $500 "for emergency medical services rendered as the decedent's last dying expense." An itemized bill from Cleveland EMS includes $450 for "ambulance advance life support" and $50 for mileage, according to an invoice filed with the claim.
"The callousness, insensitivity, and poor judgment required for the city to send a bill — its own police officers having slain 12-year-old Tamir — is breathtaking," Subodh Chandra, an attorney for the family, said in a statement to NBC's WKYC-TV affiliate. "This adds insult to homicide."
The family, Chandra added, "considers this a form of harassment."
On Nov. 22, 2014, Tamir was killed outside a recreation center by police who were responding to a report of a person with a gun. The boy, who was holding a toy gun, was shot within seconds of officers arriving at the scene.
In December, a grand jury declined to indict the officers involved in Tamir's death after Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty recommended they not be charged.
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No free ride for you....