Posted on 03/12/2021 1:20:41 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
READING, Pa. (AP) — The state of Pennsylvania will pay $475,000 to the estate of a man who died underneath a bulldozer that Pennsylvania State Police had used to chase him for growing a handful of marijuana plants, according to a settlement revealed in court Thursday.
Gregory Longenecker, a 51-year-old short-order cook and Grateful Dead fan, had fled into thick brush after being caught growing 10 marijuana plants on public land near Reading. His body was found under the treads of a Pennsylvania Game Commission bulldozer that state police had commandeered in pursuit.
The lawsuit by Longenecker’s family contended that state police and the game commission took “crazy and lethal action” against an unarmed man who posed no threat, then destroyed or withheld evidence to cover it up.
The plaintiffs’ attorney, Jordan Strokovsky, said outside court Thursday that Longenecker’s family is pleased with the settlement but wants “sweeping reforms to prevent such an excessive show of force and tragedy like this in the future.”
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So that is what a person is worth after being killed and run over by a bulldozer.
@ $475K each, there are a couple of people I’d like to do this to. Then just write a check and say “my bad”.
475.000.00
If I got run over by a bulldozer I’d want more...
and George Floyd’s family gets $27,000,000.How’s that white privilege working out?
That makes absolutely no sense.
Is this for real?
I’m CRUSHED by the news.
Just how do you chase a guy on bulldozer?
How is it possible not to win a race with a bulldozer?
Their top speed is like 10 mph.
Should be a couple million at the very least.
And police wonder why they’re losing support and respect.
“George Floyd’s family just got $27 million.
This white guy is worth half a million
We have reparation
I repeat we have reparation”
Yep, and one was a convicted felon drug dealer and one was a pot smoking gooberhead. Shows whose lives actually matter.
There are a lot of people who couldn’t run 10mph if their life depended on it.
Over 10 plants?
WTF
Should have gotten George Floyd’s lawyer
the truth hurts and potheads have thier own opinions about what truth is. And you cant understand it unless you are high too!
>They were chasing the guy with a bulldozer? I feel a cartoon coming on
It would be like an episode of Benny Hill with Yackity Sax playing in the background
This is the 1st case Ive ever heard of a police bulldozer running over a suspect they were pursuing with it. I’ll allow it. Objection over ruled.
an old friend of mine, a well known cartoonist/graphic comic artist (main guy who created all the “Wacky packages”) , once related happily the entire contents of a bizarre TV movie
(I think),he’d seen the night before, called “Killdozer”-—I gather it was inspired by Stephen King’s story of the homicidal car “Christine”
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