Posted on 12/25/2005 1:52:28 PM PST by Westlander
FLINT, Mich. -- The city has offered a police officer accused of staging his own shooting $72,000 to leave the force.
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Why aren't they charging him with fraud and billing him $72,000???
Since when did that stop the courts from desiring that somebody has to pay a fine?
In civil matters, such as this one, the plantiffs usually decide whether or not to seek damages and the ability to collect a judgement goes a long way toward deciding whether to seek one in the first place.
I suspect they said enough to have slandered him if they can't prove it... and they aren't sure they can prove it. So they're trying to buy him off.
If they will agree to give me $36,000, I will agree to not apply for a job there.
Attorney Norbert Leonard, who is representing Green for the Flint Police Officers Association, told The Flint Journal for a story published Friday that no deal has been finalized.
Mayor Don Williamson declined comment on the case.
Green suffered minor injuries when gunshots hit his bullet-resistant vest. He told investigators he was shot by a man in a white Monte Carlo that he had stopped because it had no license plate.
The gun used to shoot Green later was found and turned out to be registered to Green. He said the gun was stolen from him in 2002 but couldn't explain why the shooter had it, according to the court files.
I agree that it's a total line of crap and this guy should not only be dumped, he should be charged with something.
Nobody on the city council has ever seen The Apprentice?
If a 20-year veteran cop suddenly shoots himself and makes up a story about it, he could probably make the case for a work-stress-related mental illness of some kind that would get him disability.
At the very least, he'd be a sympathetic defendant and it would take an airtight case -- which it doesn't sound like they have -- to get a jury to vote guilty and then vote for anything more than a suspended sentence and community service. And if he's acquitted, or convicted of a minor infraction, then they have to litigate the question of his pension.
So, yeah. it's probably saving them time and money to just pay him to go away.
Is there an outside chance this cop is on the level 20 years service seems like a long time to wait to pull a scam like this,and to use his own gun seems to be beyound stupid when he must have access to all kinds of firearms from criminals.On the other hand if it is a scam they should give him a chance to do the shooting again and save the tax payers hard earned bucks.
Possiblly with a better aim ?
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