Family Of Tamir Rice Billed For Final Ambulance Ride

 

Associated Press — The city of Cleveland is asking Tamir Rice’s estate to pay $500 for ambulance and medical services he received after being shot by a police officer.

The city requested the money as the 12-year-old boy’s “last dying expense” in a creditor’s claim filed Wednesday in Cuyahoga (ky-uh-HOH’-guh) County Probate Court. The claim states the money is overdue.

A Rice family attorney calls the claim “callous and insensitive.”

Rice, who was black, was shot by a white officer while playing with a pellet gun outside a recreation center in November 2014. A grand jury in December declined to indict the officer or his partner for the shooting.

A Cleveland police union president calls the city’s claim “unconscionable.”

Rapper Kendrick Lamar’s 2016 Grammy Performance 

Cali MC Kendrick Lamar has slowly carved his own lane and become one of the most prolific new age artists of today.  He’s more than a rapper, he’s a visionary and a dope MC. A voice in a thoughtless world. A refreshment.

The Compton native’s 2016 Grammys performance, a new age interpretation of the iconic Alex Haley Black history film, “Roots” set the Internet world ablaze and shined the spotlight directly on America’s racial injustice epidemic. It was also empowering all in the same.

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In light of the many new current affairs, ie: Flint Water Crisis and murder and mass incarceration rates in The U.S., more and more big name artists are using their star power platforms to raise awareness about the social & racial injustices suffered by many blacks in America.

Queen Beyonce used her Super Bowl 50 comeback performance as a spotlight and ode to the Black Panther Party with an all girl militant style performance to her new single, Formation.

 

Beyonce, Super Bowl 50

Protesters argue that her Panther-esque performance was somehow anti police, while most believed the performance was simply about empowerment.
Can’t win them all!
You be the judge and let me know what you think!

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