File a claim with the county’s insurance and head to court. That’s where it would end up anyway even if the county paid the medical bills.
It’s way past time for suing counties and municipalities. Judges who approve these ridiculous warrants and the cops who serve them need to be on the hook personally.
Strip them of their indemnity for gross incompetence and sue them into bankruptcy. Leave them, their wives, and their kids broke and shivering in the streets.
“That’s where it would end up anyway even if the county paid the medical bills.”
Yeah, there’s got to be a little more detail than this. Their agents and employees caused this child’s injuries, even if those agents were 100% in the right with their actions and this was just an unfortunate mistake, clearly the child is blameless and his injuries are on them.
It may well be that the family has already filed suit and they are unwilling to pay these bills because that would, understandably, be treated as admission of culpability.
My guess is, in the end, they are going to pay, a tad over the hospital bills in fact.