Pickford Studios
  • Home
    • Our Authors
    • Museum
    • More >
      • Just Bein' Silly
  • Books
    • Fiction
    • Non Fiction
    • Self Help
    • Audio Books
  • Pickford Word
  • Humorous (?)
  • Racism
    • The Physics of Murder
    • The Lynching of "Toe"
    • On Auction Today:
    • The Tragedy of Trayvon Martin
    • Sandra Bland
    • To an Athlete Dying Young
    • Wigger - Excerpts
    • Bernard Bailey
    • Tamir Rice
    • Emmett Till
  • Ashley's Doves

The Pickford Word

Dear Reader:  Some of our blogs may contain offensive language-- unlike so many blogs, wherein it is the quality of writing which offends the sensibilities.

Feb. 10, 2016.  BREAKING NEWS:  TAMIR RICE'S FAMILY SUED BY CITY FOR EMS SERVICES.

2/10/2016

0 Comments

 
By Meg Langford, and Mickey McClain

​Yes, Folks, the City of Cleveland has filed a creditor’s claim against the estate of Tamir Rice.  According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Cleveland.com), Assistant Law Director Carl Meyers filed a claim in Cuyahoga County Probate Court Wednesday, notifying Tamir's estate that it owes the city $500 for "ambulance advanced life support" and a mileage expense for the ambulance ride to MetroHealth Medical Center. Tamir died of his gunshot wounds the next day.
I am not blogging about this.  Yet.  Because right now, there are no words. 
Well.  Maybe a few.
Is this the County’s stunning and unmitigated cruelty?
Is this the County’s unfathomable and immeasurable depth of stupidity?
Or is this the County’s Declaration of War?
Do they want their city burned to the ground?
Tamir supporters have tried peaceful protest.  They have tried to work through the law on this.  To follow the law.  They have watched the wheels of justice grind with an agonizing legal lugubriousness.  How long are people supposed to sit still for this?    
(Consider reading the blog on The Pickford Word entitled “Holiday Banter”.  It speaks to this very hypocrisy in our society.)
Seriously:  why didn’t somebody in the courthouse or state house, someone with some tiny spark of intelligence, explain to everybody else, the reaction this affront would surely provoke?  Why didn’t the Mayor pass the hat, or pull five hundred out of his own pocket?  Anything to prevent the accusations of cruelty and the tsunamis of bad publicity that will wash over the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, and the state of Ohio.  I am ashamed to have born a Buckeye.  This city needs to heal, for God’s sake.  And this will only rip open the wounds,
My Prediction: oh so many just and reasonable souls will respond to a crowdsourcing request for funds.  And the Tamir Rice family will amass thousands to pay the five hundred measly dollars.  
And speaking of lawsuits, why did a Cleveland cop have to grab Tamir’s sister, slam her to the pavement, and handcuff her as she was trying to run to the side of her brother, who was bleeding to death.  A trained officer twice her size couldn’t have just taken her by the arm to restrain her?   Every good, decent police officer out there—of whom there are thousands--must be appalled.
To the Powers that Be in Cuyahoga County:  between the inevitable clean-up, crowd control, or just plain bad publicity for Cleveland, you will spend so much more than $500 dollars fixing this firestorm that you created.
Your Governor, Presidential hopeful John Kasich, says he has a task force in place whose purpose it is to bridge the gap between the police and the populous, and to improve the dismal state of affairs that is the relationship between Law Enforcement and the citizens of Ohio. I was almost positive that Cleveland was part of Ohio; maybe you just didn’t read the memo yet. That’s understandable, as it takes time and resources to come up with a brain trust to oversee a choice like charging the family of the child your cops murdered for the ambulance ride they begrudgingly gave Tamir – after the officers on site failed to administer first aid for four full minutes as the boy bled to death.          
Just after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, anybody who rebelled or displeased the state was not only executed, but the family of the deceased was sent a bill for the bullet.  This is all starting to sound way too close to home.
(Read the full TAMIR RICE chapter by clicking on the MENU BAR at the PICKFORD STUDIOS home page.  Peace out.
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    ​​Please Share
    If you enjoy our blogs, please give your friends and enemies a piece of our minds.

    Categories

    All
    Ann Coulter
    Anthony Scaramucci
    April Fool
    Arlington National Cemetary
    Athlete Protests
    Attention Span
    Bad Patch
    Bernard Bailey
    Black Lives Matter'
    Bootlegging
    Christmas Musings
    Dogs
    Donald Trump
    Dueling Blogs
    Emmett Till
    Facebook
    Ferguson
    Four Chaplins
    Free
    Greensboro Massacre
    Guns
    Harvey Milk
    Holiday Banter
    Internet Trolls
    Issac Woodard
    Kim Davis
    Liberty University
    Logan Paul - Pranking
    Manchester
    Memorial Day
    Million Kid March
    Official State Symbols
    Orlando Pulse Shooting
    Paris Attacks
    Paula Deen
    Poem - A Very Sad Day
    Pokemon Go
    Prince
    Racism
    Religious Intolerance
    Robin Williams
    Ruby Bridges
    San Bernadino
    Suffragettes
    Tamir Rice
    Tennessee Bible
    The Fluffernutter
    The Sweet Spot
    Tolerance
    UK
    WWI Christmas Truce

    Our Bloggers
    Meg Langford
    Eve Ryman
    Mickey McClain
    ​Mike Pickwick

    “It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
    ​
     
    --Oscar Wilde

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    January 2020
    August 2019
    April 2019
    February 2018
    December 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015

Proudly powered by Weebly