Cleveland settles wrongful death lawsuit with Tamir Rice's family for $6 million. But the city does not admit to wrongdoing.
The child's estate owes $500 for "emergency medical services rendered as the decedent’s last dying expense."
"I think it's quite sad that LeBron hasn't spoken out about my son," Rice said.
Samaria Rice referred to the justice system as "corrupt" after a grand jury failed to indict the officers who shot her 12-year-old son, Tamir.
"I saw the weapon in his hands coming out of his waistband and the threat to my partner and myself was real and active."
Lawyers for Tamir Rice's family have released two outside reports that call his shooting "unreasonable and unjustified."
The prosecutor overseeing the case of Tamir Rice was blasted for comments he made that suggest the grieving mother of the slain boy has "economic motives."
The Democratic presidential front-runner on Monday went to Chicago to meet with the families of victims of gun violence.
A week after two reports commissioned by the Cuyahoga County, Ohio prosecutor found that the police-involved shooting death of Tamir Rice was reasonable, the child's mother is calling for a special investigator to take over the case.
The family of Tamir Rice cremated his body earlier this week, reports The Washington Post, nearly six months after the 12-year-old Cleveland, Ohio youth was shot and killed by a police officer while playing with a toy gun on a playground. His mother, Samaria, had kept his body in storage at a cost of $75 […]
It’s been five months since Tamir Rice – the 12-year-old gunned down by an Ohio police officer for playing with a toy gun – died, but the ongoing investigation into his death has produced no charges for the cop involved in the fatal shooting. The stalled investigation has not only taken an emotional toll on Tamir’s mother, […]
