In Tamir Rice Shooting, Cleveland Rescinds $500 Bill in Medical Costs.

[elleng]

Source: nyt

'Nearly 15 months after a Cleveland police officer fatally shot Tamir Rice, 12, while the boy was playing with a pellet gun near a recreation area, the city sued to collect $500 for his “last dying expense” — the cost of his emergency medical treatment.

The documents were signed by legal officials and posted online, drawing condemnation from the family’s lawyers, one of whom called the suit by the city on Wednesday “nothing short of breathtaking.”

But on Thursday, officials told local television stations that the bill had been generated automatically and that they were withdrawing the claim.

Court documents published online showed that the city of Cleveland filed suit against the boy’s estate Feb 10. The final moments of his life were itemized in an emergency medical services bill: $10 for each of the five miles it took to get him to the hospital, where he later died; $450 for advanced life support in the ambulance that took him there.'

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/12/us/cleveland-500-bill-tamir-rice-shooting.html

[PeoViejo]

1. In Russia, the family only pays for the bullets

used in the execution.

[brooklynite]

8. No, that's China...

[iandhr]

2. I guess you can still shame folks into doing the right thing.

[Chakab]

6. The right thing would be firing the incompetent cop who pulled the trigger in two seconds and then

fell over backwards irrespective of whether criminal charges are filed.

Loehmann was forced out of a much smaller department before he got hired by CPD. It boggles the mind that there are people who support his continued employment as a police officer in the CPD.

[hobbit709]

3. "officials told local television stations that the bill had been generated automatically

and that they were withdrawing the claim."

In other words--The bad publicity made us take it back.

[NutmegYankee]

7. I wonder what the excuse is for the lawyer who signed the suit?

[mountain grammy]

4. No words....

[Akicita]

5. Just heartless. I hope Kasich is asked about this.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Cleveland mayor apologizes for billing family of dead boy

Feb 11, 4:36 PM EST
Cleveland mayor apologizes for billing family of dead boy
By MARK GILLISPIE
Associated Press

CLEVELAND (AP) -- The mayor of Cleveland apologized Thursday to the family of Tamir Rice, a black 12-year-old boy fatally shot by a white Cleveland police officer, for the city having sent the administrator of the boy's estate a "decedent's last dying expense" claim of $500 for ambulance services.

Mayor Frank Jackson opened a City Hall news conference by saying, "We want to start off again apologizing to the Rice family if in fact this has added to any grief or pain they may have."

Jackson said the claim was a "routine" matter but that supervisors should have been alerted to whom it involved and that it shouldn't have been filed. He said the claim would be withdrawn.

"It was a mistake in terms of us flagging it, but not a mistake in terms of the legal process," Jackson said.

More:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CLEVELAND_POLICE_SHOOT_BOY_OHOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-02-11-16-36-15

[irisblue]

10. Good!