This needs to happen more often.
You mean PUNISHING the taxpayers instead of those who did the deed?? How is that going to deter the bad guys when someone else pays for it?
Ideally, it should be the police who pay for the damages out of their own pockets; however, this is not happening realistically.
Despite all the shootings, the laws on the matter have NOT changed, partly because the average person is not fully aware of the extensiveness of the problem.
I fully support placing the amount of damages solely on the shoulders of the person(s) responsible for such unconstitutional shootings, etc.
However, people will not demand such a law until they make the connection that “we’re paying because that power-hungry fool can’t keep his finger off the trigger”.
Most people are still fully content to worship police officers, no matter what they do. A few of them still remain on this thread.