Cleveland is suing Tamir Rice’s family for emergency response costs,and the officer who shot Quintonio LeGrier filed for emotional damages. Really, now?Apparently, and it wasn’t enough for a Cleveland police officer to shoot 12-year-old Tamir Rice less than two seconds after arriving on-scene in 2014 and handcuff his sister when she tried to assist him,nor for his mother to be left homeless in 2015 as she waited months for an investigation. It wasn’t enough for Cleveland to actually blame the petite boy for his own death, or to present multiple reports which found his killing to be “reasonable.On Wednesday, and in a letter submitted by the city’s Director of Law Barbara Langhenry,the City of Cleveland actually sued Tamir’s family for $500, which it claims is “past due - owing for emergency medical services rendered as the decedent’s final dying expense, or ” according to Cleveland Scene.
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Source: theguardian.com