News, Cold-hearted cops charge mom of dead son for dent in NYPD car. (legal, cost)

[JD59]

TAMON ROBINSON tried to outrun cops, but couldn’t.

The 27-year-old coffee barista died in April after being struck by an NYPD squad car that began chasing him as he swiped paver stones in the predawn light at his Brooklyn housing project.

Now his mom’s being chased anew, hounded by a collection agency hired by the city with a cruel final demand, the Daily News has learned.

The city has ordered her to pay the $710 cost of repairing the police car that killed her boy.


Read more: Cold-hearted cops charge mom of dead son for dent in NYPD car - NY Daily News

[Chango]

All emotions aside, I don't see how an adult's mother could possibly be legally held responsible for the damages caused by the dead crook to the police car. That's like a credit card company demanding I pay a dead parent's credit card bill. That's not legal...

[SpencerMtn]

She better pay up. It would be just like the cops for 10 of them to shoot her 80 times in the back for having a cell phone in her hand!