{"id":3198,"date":"2016-04-26T03:59:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T19:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/26\/tamir-rices-family-gets-6-million-cleveland-avoids-federal-trial\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T03:59:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T19:59:55","slug":"tamir-rices-family-gets-6-million-cleveland-avoids-federal-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/26\/tamir-rices-family-gets-6-million-cleveland-avoids-federal-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamir Rice&#039;s family gets $6 million, Cleveland avoids federal trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ap_499899079720\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.2.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzI1L2QyL0FQXzQ5OTg5OTA3LjAxODJlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/961ef3d8\/ebb\/AP_499899079720.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Tamir+Rice%27s+family+gets+%246+million%2C+Cleveland+avoids+federal+trial&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F25%2Ftamir-rice-lawsuit-settlement%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F25%2Ftamir-rice-lawsuit-settlement%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The family of Tamir Rice \u2014 the 12-year-old boy shot and killed by Cleveland police in 2014 \u2014 will receive a $6 million settlement from the city, according to an announcement in United States District Court on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland did not admit to any fault in the settlement, which allows the city to avoid a potential federal civil rights trial that would have examined the city&#8217;s police force.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/12\/23\/black-lives-matter-movement\/\">Black Lives Matter: How 3 words became a movement<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The settlement also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/04\/26\/us\/tamir-rice-family-cleveland-settlement.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0\">nullifies<\/a> the chance of a larger settlement that could have been attached to a wrongful death <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/nbcblk\/tamir-rices-family-files-wrongful-death-lawsuit-n297301\">suit<\/a> filed by Rice&#8217;s family in January, 2015.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/25\/tamir-rice-lawsuit-settlement\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/baltimore\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Baltimore<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/freddie-gray\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Freddie Gray<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/black-lives-matter\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Black Lives Matter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/cleveland\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Cleveland<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/settlement\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Settlement<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/2eanjcGUJBg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family of Tamir Rice \u2014 the 12-year-old boy shot and killed by Cleveland police in 2014 \u2014 will receive a $6 million settlement from the city, according to an announcement in United States District Court on Monday. 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