article_snippet: (CNN)Pleading innocence, immunity and ignorance, Cleveland Cleveland responded to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Tamir Rice's family by saying the 12-year-old's death was Tamir Rice's own fault.
article_snippet: In the 41-page response to Tamir Rice's family, Cleveland says that Tamir's injuries "were directly and proximately caused by the failure of Plaintiffs' decedent to exercise due care to avoid injury.
article_snippet: As to the scores of other allegations in a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Tamir Rice's family by saying the 12-year-old's death was his own fault, Cleveland responds by saying that they are untrue, that the independent investigation by Cuyahoga County is still going on, or that Cleveland "is without knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth.
article_snippet: the Rice family maintains that Tamir was shot and killed unnecessarily by Cleveland police officers," Rice family co-counsel Walter Madison said in a statement.
highlights_snippet: Cleveland: Tamir Rice died because Tamir Rice failed "to exercise due care to avoid injury"
  