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Should Tamir Rice's Family be made to pay $500 Ambulance/Mileage Bill?

Should Tamir Rice's estate pay overdue medical bill?

  • Yes - the family should pay

    Votes: 5 17.2%

  • No - the family isn't responsible/don't pay

    Votes: 24 82.8%
  • Total voters
    29
  • Poll closed .
Luftwaffe said:
Still, none of this **** would have befallen them if their son wasnt waving a realistic looking M1911 toy around.
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Tamir Rice got about 2 seconds before being shot. Finicum got more like 24 seconds.
 
radcen said:
I call BS on the city. If it is an automated billing process, then the bill was supposed to be sent. Theoretically, city services are supposed to be fair and dispassionate.

Also, I suspect that the ONLY reason they retracted the bill is due to public outcry. If this had not gained such widespread attention, the bill never would have been canceled.
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Bills are sent in error through automated processes literally every single day to millions of customers worldwide. Your argument is a silly one.
 
Objective Voice said:
Found this article from USAToday.com and was floored!

Although Tamir was still alive when he was taken to the hospital after being shot by local police in Cleveland, OH, he died the next day. The state's Assistant Law Director has filed a claim which bills the Rice's estate for the medical bill.

Should they pay or should the city/state be responsible?
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Well seeing as how the city isn't actually billing his estate and that it's a routine procedure that wasn't flagged (aka an accident), this shouldn't even be news.
Of course they could allow it and bill his estate, which is likely to have no assets and the bill would still not get paid.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Well seeing as how the city isn't actually billing his estate and that it's a routine procedure that wasn't flagged (aka an accident), this shouldn't even be news.
Of course they could allow it and bill his estate, which is likely to have no assets and the bill would still not get paid.
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If he's a minor, does he technically have an estate, or is he still a ward of his parents who are still alive?
 
Cephus said:
The city is responsible if, and only if, a board of inquiry finds that the officer acted improperly.
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So the government gets to decide if the government acted wrongly when killing a child from a moving vehicle while playing with a toy.

The fact is the government was responsible for the death of the child, the government should cover the cost of the ambulance. Which they are.

The one really at fault is whoever allowed this child to play in public with a realistic looking gun.
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This backwards thinking simply boggles my mind.
 
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