KING-5 in Seattle had about ten minutes of coverage about this this evening.
They investigated through FOIA requests over 2000 pages of the history of the guy involved.
He has a LONG history, both before and after, of what most reasonable people would call excessive use of force.
If the County settled for ten mill, you can bet the lawyers for the county were telling them “If this goes to court, you’da wished you spent the ten mill, because the jury will give them so much more it would make ten mill look like piggy bank pennies...”
Sorry. I disagree with your assessment. Sometimes we get to the point where the “I vas jus doink my job” bs don’t cut it anymore.
Fine the Police Union Retirement Fund $10 million dollars and you’d see union management get rid of the problems, pronto.
my post #5 was a copy and paste of a comment from a source. You will see the url there