Only in America: Damages after death

After a man is killed by a cop car, authorities bill his mother for the dent his body left — and more in our collection of strange revelations about the nation

Damages after death
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Tamon Robinson, a 27-year-old Brooklyn man, was struck and killed by a cop car while fleeing the police, who caught him stealing cobblestones from his housing project. Now, Robinson's mother is being billed $710 by the New York City Police to repair the dent Tamon's body left in the squad car. "We're still grieving, and this is like a slap in the face," Laverne Dobbinson told New York's Daily News. "It's crazy."

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