“Needs to be compensated”
Problem there, it is extracted from the taxpayers, who, it should be pointed out, did not shoot this lady. What good does that do? Nothing, that’s what.
You don’t think her family would appreciate a little help?
The family will have financial consequences.
As for the cop, he should get 25 or 30 years at a minimum.
If you had fired the shot, the prosecution would have contended that a person on the other side of a wall is not a a threat until they are breaching the wall.
Many a person has gone to prison for shooting through a door at someone on the outside of that door.
Problem there, it is extracted from the taxpayers, who, it should be pointed out, did not shoot this lady. What good does that do? Nothing, that’s what.
Taxpayers funded this policeman’s training and salary.
Its been that way for years.
No, the public in Fort Worth does not deserve nor get sympathy for having to pay for the totally bumf♡@{ed department they haven't fixed.
The payout is earned.
There are a lot of people who should not be police. Good ones are hard to find.
The little town I have lived in for nearly twenty years has less than three thousand people. We have fired entire departments that were screwed up three times and some of those guys were pretty out there. You can't keep people around who screw up when part of the job is to carry loaded weapons.
In a civil rights lawsuit, the actor himself is sued. And, he can be sued for triple damages. The family can collect from the officers insurance company, and his days as a cop are done.
It should be extracted from the pension fund of that police department.
No one could possibly believe that the fellow officers of that homicidal retard weren’t aware of his level of incompetence and violence.
As an employer you are responsible for the actions of your employees while they are on the job.
The Tax payers are the employers of the police departments. Maybe if they would pay some attention to who they were electing and who those people were hiring this kind of thing might become less common.
But I will bet you that they will not recall or fail to re-elect 95% of the people who they have hired to run the city.
Until they do so things like this will keep happening.
Their town, their responsibility.