Tamir Rice was the 12 year old African-American boy who was fatally shot by a certifiably unqualified, rookie policeman for playing in a public park with a toy gun -- which the inexperienced, panicky officer just assumed was real and that Tamir was about to shoot him.
We wouldn't even know about the case, because the officers lied in their report to cover up what really happened. Only there was one of those ubiquitous security video monitors scanning the area.
It wasn't enough to overcome the rigged system that allows police officers to hear all the evidence against them presented to a grand jury -- and then to give their own story to the same grand jury without being questioned by the victim's attorney. And, so, of course, no indictment was brought against the officer in this case of police-inflicted homicide.
That's all bad enough. But now -- it's hard to even write this -- the City of Cleveland has filed a creditor's claim against the Tamir Rice estate for a past due $500 bill for emergency medical treatment for this boy for his gunshot wounds from the City of Cleveland's policeman who killed him.
The city had already had to apologize to the Rice family last year for a legal filing that blamed Tamir for his own death. Can you think of anything else that they can do to mishandle this case any worse than has been done?
Ralph
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