While it would be nice if it were true, that’s not how trials of police officers killing innocent people go. Just look at the case in neighboring Dallas where Amber Guyger flat out murdered an innocent man, where the cops got a search warrant to look through his apartment for narcotics but never even searched her house. Or look at this case where the police early on released a photo showing everything blurred but a handgun. I will bet good money that a large part of this trial will involve a discussion of just how threatening this black woman daring to play video games with her kids and defend him against a prowler peering in her window and shouting things at her is.
Disagree completely. Using one’s authority as an agent of the state to murder someone should always bump the crime up to a much more severe level, and that’s what he did. When he gets the PD releasing images to make him look threatened and a cover-up attempt by the other cop who failed to arrest this murderer when he witnessed a straight up killing, and he’s opting to ignore established procedure and common sense in order to attack an innocent person in her own home, none of this ‘oh it was an accident’ nonsense should apply. If you go up to someone’s window, shout stuff at them, then shoot them 1.5 seconds later, this isn’t remotely like ‘oh there was a fight and things went too far’ or ‘oh I heard a strange noise and I was scared’.
$205,000 is a lot of cabbage, and I imagine her lawyer must be more savvy about the likelihood of winning more in the State of Texas than we are, especially when in this case the city of San Antonio is just deciding to write the check, rather than continuing a possibly long and expensive court battle.
Orange County cop put on administrative leave after pulling a gun on a teenager at a skate park after an argument over loud music. The cop was not in uniform and was off duty, and threatened to shoot the kid in the “fucking face”.
I bet this is why pro-gun people in California are so concerned about public carrying of weapons, so they can defend citizens against this type of government tyranny. Right?
If only cops had guns, what situations do you think would be different in America? Nobody now can use a gun to defend themselves against a cop, so what difference does having a gun make when it comes to the police?
Rather than describe it, I’m going to leave you to read through it and/or watch the video yourself, because it’s the length of the stop, and the incessant litany of questions, over something that probably isn’t even an infraction, that makes this so shitty.
At least no-one was hurt, but it demonstrates the unreasonable and belligerent nature of some police officers.
If we take the officer at his word that he wasn’t profiling him (and it seems reasonable for at least the initial stop if he couldn’t tell from behind, less so for after the litany of questions started) - he’s an asshole who shouldn’t be cop.
Balls…looks like TX has a cap on punitive damages vs. government of $250k. I’m not sure if that stacks on normal personal injury general damages or not. So that number might not have gotten any better. Still, it’s not really about the money. Sexual assault charges in Texas carry 2-20 years. I wonder how tough the sentence was against the cop doing the molesting.
Nitpick: she didn’t win a lawsuit. The parties settled for $205,000.00.
I’m not a Texas lawyer, but it looks like Texas’ sovereign immunity cap for municipalities (basically, the amount that a city can be sued for) is $250,000.00, so a trial wouldn’t have earned her much more.