Cleveland Files Claim Against Tamir Rice's Family For Unpaid EMS Bill

[RockaFowler]

This story is unbelievable. It's so beyond callous

http://gawker.com/cleveland-files-claim-against-tamir-rices-family-for-un-1758377203

The City of Cleveland has devastated the family of Tamir Rice several times over, and seems to have no intention of stopping. This afternoon in probate court, Cleveland Scene reports, the city filed a creditor’s claim for $500, saying that Rice’s family still owes them for the ambulance and paramedics that tended to the 12-year-old’s body after he was shot by a police officer in November 2014.

In the language of the notice, the city states that the Rice family is responsible “for emergency medical services rendered as the decedent’s last dying expense under Ohio Revised Code.” Broken down, the city is billing Rice’s family $450 for “advance life support” that did not save him and $50 for the mileage driven by the ambulance to the hospital where he died.

[Dorian Gray]

1. Ugh

This is gross.

[gregcrawford]

2. This is what happens...

... when officials actively recruit for police departments rabid racist psychopaths who are determined to instigate a race war. They are irredeemably evil down to their DNA; they cannot be reasoned with, and they cannot be rehabilitated.

[azurnoir]

3. well the city of Cleveland doesn't kill Black kids for free ya know gotta recoup those funds somehow

[CanonRay]

4. Did they charge the family for the bullet that killed him?

Or is that bill in the mail...disgusting.

[Fast Walker 52]

6. and then probably the dry cleaning bill for the police uniform that got Tamir's blood on it.

[Fast Walker 52]

5. what the fuck is wrong with people? Jesus!!!

So freaking sick.

[blackspade]

7. Like I said about this story yesterday....

Whoever is attempting to collect this is a monster.
The city incurred this cost by murderering Rice.

Sick fucks.

[MADem]

8. Fuckers--send THAT bill to the popo. nt