Cleveland Bills Tamir Rice's Family For $500 Ambulance Ride After Cowboy Cops Shot Him Dead

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Cleveland bills Tamir Rice's family for ambulance ride after cop shot him 

Greg Botelho and Ed Payne

Videos: http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/11/us/tamir-rice-shooting/

Story highlights

•  Cleveland's mayor says an official responded routinely to a request from Tamir Rice's estate
• The ambulance invoice for Tamir Rice totals $500; the mayor says his family won't have to pay for it
• The 12-year-old was shot and killed in 2014 holding a pellet gun that officers said looked like a real gun

(CNN)First, a Cleveland police officer shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice as he played with a toy pellet gun in a public park.

Then the city said the boy's death was his own fault.

And now Cleveland has issued a bill to the Rice family for his final ambulance ride.

That latest development, coming on Wednesday nearly 15 months after Tamir's death, stirred up fresh outrage -- not just from his family, but from the Cleveland police union that's fought them tooth and nail to clear the officers involved in the shooting.

"Subodh Chandra and I have never agreed on anything until now," police union President Steve Loomis told CNN affiliate WJW, referring to the Rice family's lawyer. "It is unconscionable that the city of Cleveland would send that bill to the Rice family.

"Truly disappointing, but not at all surprising."