Her maiden name in French was, "killer".
I'm serious.
Posted on 03/17/2014 5:21:05 PM PDT by smokingfrog
SAGINAW, MI — The mother of Milton Hall, a homeless Saginaw man shot and killed by Saginaw police officers in 2012, has settled her federal wrongful death lawsuit against the city and nine police officers, her attorneys say.
Jewel Hall on Friday, March 14, settled her case in U.S. District Court in Bay City, according to a press release sent from Hall's Detroit attorneys.
Hall settled the case for $725,000, according to her Saginaw attorney, Debra Freid.
Hall's "primary motivation was to make sure that this never happens to another family," Freid told The Saginaw News.
The dollar amount is a "symbol of (Milton Hall's) value," Freid said.
"The amount was never the central issue for Jewel," Freid said. "The fact that it's a very substantial amount is important to her because (it means) the city of Saginaw recognizes that Milton Hall, her son, was a person of value notwithstanding his illness."
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Her maiden name in French was, "killer".
I'm serious.
Does a single dime come out of any officer’s or city official’s own personal pocket?
Didn’t think so.
That is the problem...take it out of their personal hide, and this sh*t ends quickly.
it should come out of their personal pensions and they, like other professionals, should be made to carry liability insurance of at least a million per wrongful death.
exactly. they need to have personal repercussions. they never get fired and even if that, hardly ever go to jail.
Total immunity for stupidity while employed by any government body is an insane policy that should have ended years ago.
Until the perpetrator and enabling boss suffer real consequences this type of outrage will continue.
No one should be immune from responsibility for their own acts.
I don't think they had enough cops pointing guns at the guy holding the knife....
Looks like they could of used some back up.
He was a threat but he wasn’t a 47 round threat. One good center mass shot would have been plenty and he might have lived.
Since the $ amount wasn’t really a factor, and since it was really all about seeing others like Milton Hall don’t receive the same treatment he did, are Jewel Hall and Attorney Freid going to donate the full $725K to local homeless shelters and psych clinics?
Uh, how about a round aimed at the knee? Or are cute little officerettes not trained for that?
Do they not have stun guns? Seems like that would have been the thing to use in a situation like that.
Of course he did threaten to ‘take someone out’ so I guess that means they can just fire at will.
This is perfect justification for the police to have 50 caliber rifles for situations like this. One 50 caliber round would have parked the perp and saved 46 rounds and the possibility of innocent passerby’s getting hit with stray shots or ricochets. (if necessary /s/)
"One of the things the public has to understand, an individual wielding a knife at you at about 20 feet can be on top of you in a split second"
CONFRONTATION!!!
Well, if you're a fat donut-eating lump of lard who's in a CONFRONTATION stance, I suppose that might be true. Me, not so much. The knife-wielding individual would not catch me in this situation.
CONFRONTATION!!!
"One of the things the public has to understand, an individual wielding a knife at you at about 20 feet can be on top of you in a split second"
Why are guys with guns and wearing Magic Costumes so FILLED WITH FEAR? What's up with that?
Cripes, they even had a Furry Police Officer-Judge named Barky with them.
I say Ma Deuces - optimally, a quad-mount belt-fed.
Whole lotta beef in that picture...
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