Posted on 05/23/2005 6:54:22 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
DELRAY BEACH — The family of Jerrod Miller is seeking $7.5 million from the city for the police shooting death of the teenager, attorney Willie Gary said Friday.
In a letter to city-hired attorney Fred Gelston, Gary cites the city's recent contract with a nonprofit police chiefs' group to review the police department's use-of-force policies as an insufficient response to Miller's death. The 16-year-old was fatally shot by rookie officer Darren Cogoni as he drove a borrowed car through a school breezeway during a dance.
"While that is a step in the right direction to reduce the chances of someone else's loved one from being killed by a trigger-happy, poorly trained, rookie officer, it is not enough," Gary stated in the letter.
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From the city?..............Don't they mean from the taxpayers?
Update Ping.....
Tragic any way you look at it.
Not really, he should have stopped instead of running away. He would be alive and maybe in trouble for something....
Gary is another race baiting lawyer, Now there is an argument about who the father is. The grandmother has been raising him.
No word on why the granfather gave him the keys to the car when he knew he didn't have a license to drive.
The 16-year-old was fatally shot by rookie officer Darren Cogoni as he drove a borrowed car through a school breezeway during a dance.
Excuse me! Borrowed...stolen? Driveing a car through a school breezeway during a dance? What was the cop supposed to do?
The Uncle gave him the keys.
http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.18526/article_detail.asp
Long, but good and, most probably, true.
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