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12 Year Old Tamir Rice STILL not Buried 5 Months Later

Zaac

Zaac

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As investigation enters fifth month, Tamir Rice’s mother has moved into a homeless shelter

The City of Cleveland has asked the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old boy shot and killed while he played with a toy gun in a Westside park in November, to halt their civil lawsuit until the official investigation has concluded.

The request, penned by city lawyers, says that delaying the lawsuit will protect the two officers involved in the shooting from making statements now, before knowing if they’ll be charged with a crime.

On Monday, Rice’s family responded: They can’t wait any longer.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ces-mother-has-moved-into-a-homeless-shelter/
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I don't get it. What could it possibly take 5 months to determine? You shot the kid dead. It's been 5 months. Let his mother bury him.
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Zaac

Zaac

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It's pretty disturbing how easily some of you are manipulated by the clique's chumming the water.

People hold funerals and often don't bury the body for financial or legal reasons.
 
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Revmitchell

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The 12-year-old shot dead by a Cleveland police officer after cops mistook a pellet gun for a dangerous weapon last month was buried Wednesday.
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This is from the article 777 posted.There was both a funeral and a burial.
 
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Zaac said:
It's pretty disturbing how easily some of you are manipulated by the clique's chumming the water.

People hold funerals and often don't bury the body for financial or legal reasons.
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He was buried at his funeral. The OP is wrong.
 
Zaac

Zaac

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Revmitchell said:
This is from the article 777 posted.There was both a funeral and a burial.
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Nope.

There was no burial.

According to family attorney Walter Madison, Tamir's family is waiting for the investigation to end so they will not be subjected to burying him and having to exhume his body from the ground for yet another medical examination. Via text, Madison pointed out: "The city of Cleveland knows that too. The delay incurs a daily $75 fee. To date, the outstanding expenses are $18k which at some point Samaria Rice would have to be obligated to pay. They talk nice and are apologetic but they are waging war of a different brand."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/...ter-being-shot-and-killed-by-Cleveland-Police
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Compounding the tragic circumstances of his death is that Tamir has yet to be buried by his family. The Rice family’s attorney, Walter Madison, said the family is waiting for the investigation to be completed rather than be subjected to the very possible exhumation of his body as part of the Cleveland Police Department’s investigation.

http://rollingout.com/news/tamir-rice-still-not-buried/
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Don

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Um, guys? 777's article says there were funeral services; it does NOT say he was buried. It says the boy was laid to rest (which most of us would infer to mean he was buried; but the reporter for this article took most of their material from NBC reports, which tells me the reporter put this thing together in a hurry, and may not have meant what we interpreted).
 
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Don said:
Um, guys? 777's article says there were funeral services; it does NOT say he was buried. It says the boy was laid to rest (which most of us would infer to mean he was buried; but the reporter for this article took most of their material from NBC reports, which tells me the reporter put this thing together in a hurry, and may not have meant what we interpreted).
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I quoted directly from that article and it says he was buried.
 
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Don

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Don

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Revmitchell said:
You need to look at the bold words directly under the second picture down which is of the young boy.
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YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. My apologies

However, that article was dated December; the most recent report, from the article I posted a link to, clarifies the family's lawyer saying the boy was NOT buried.
 
Sapper Woody

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Investigation aside, no one is saying that the boy can't be buried, that I can find. It's the family's decision to not bury him, because they think he might be exhumed for the investigation. The family is incurring the $75/day cost. No one is making them do this.

Any speculation as to why is just that - speculation. There are a number of reasons they might be doing this. The two most prominent are:

1. The reason stated - that they are afraid his body might be exhumed later for the investigation. I see this as unreasonable. The coroner has already examined him, and the shooting was caught on tape. What need would there be for further examination of the body?

2. Public sympathy - they may have been advised by their lawyer to not bury him, in order to gain sympathy for the investigation. It may have been delayed just for these articles to appear now, and keep the story in the public eye.

Either way, it's ridiculous that he's not been buried yet. But, honestly, it was their call, not anyone else's call. They are incurring the fee on themselves. No one is pushing it on them.
 
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