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CHP to pay $10M for paralyzing Salinas man high on meth, armed with gun
KTVU ^ | June 26, 2025 | By Lisa Fernandez

Posted on 06/26/2025 8:36:28 AM PDT by artichokegrower

The California Highway Patrol agreed to pay $10 million to a mother after a jury found two of its officers violated her son's constitutional rights by shooting him nearly 45 times and paralyzing him, even though he was high on methamphetamine, armed with a gun and later convicted of assaulting police, stealing a car, hit-and-run and DUI.

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"It means something that our society recognizes that people can make mistakes and just because you've made mistakes does not mean the police get to shoot you,"


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1 posted on 06/26/2025 8:36:28 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

WTAF?!!!!!!


2 posted on 06/26/2025 8:37:56 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this๐Ÿ’ฉ? ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿ’‰! ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‘!)
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To: artichokegrower

Two words:

โ€œRange timeโ€


3 posted on 06/26/2025 8:39:57 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: artichokegrower

He was just turning his life around...


4 posted on 06/26/2025 8:44:34 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: artichokegrower

This is an outrage that the 10 million is not even going to the man who was shot and paralyzed. It is going to his mother because he died/

***** Her armed meth head son (who was doing a suicide by cop) is worth more to her dead, than alive.


5 posted on 06/26/2025 8:44:49 AM PDT by dennisw (๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ’ฏ)
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To: artichokegrower

“by shooting him nearly 45 times and paralyzing him,”

Only hit one time. At that by the cop spraying through the wall.


6 posted on 06/26/2025 8:46:49 AM PDT by TexasGator (1FDD logo About Issues Projects Products Connect Subscribe Invest June 19, 2025 | Insight '1-1111 -)
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To: dennisw

Correction—
Methhead’s Mama will get about 7 million dollars after the scumbag lawyers get their cut


7 posted on 06/26/2025 8:47:00 AM PDT by dennisw (๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ’ฏ)
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To: artichokegrower

That’ll buy lots of meth...


8 posted on 06/26/2025 8:47:58 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: dennisw

The linked article is an interesting read:

Cho began firing at Gold and as she backed out of the bathroom entrance, she fell to the ground, police said.

Weaver, hearing the shots and seeing Cho fall to the ground, began firing through the wall of the bathroom, believing that his partner had been shot, police said.

From a distance of less than five feet away, Cho shot 16 times and missed every shot, Gold’s lawyers said.

She put bullets in the ceiling, the floor, the Jacuzzi and various windows in different parts of the house.

Weaver began firing through walls, shooting 28 times without knowing what was on the other side of the walls, Gold’s attorneys said.


9 posted on 06/26/2025 8:48:32 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: artichokegrower
There is a law which says a serial killer can't profit from writing a book about his life as a serial killer.

We need a law that says if you're found guilty of committing a crime you can't sue for what happened to you while you were committing that crime.

10 posted on 06/26/2025 8:49:04 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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“”From a distance of less than five feet away, Cho shot 16 times and missed every shot, Goldโ€™s lawyers said.

She put bullets in the ceiling, the floor, the Jacuzzi and various windows in different parts of the house.””””

40 shots rang out
40 people fell
They completely missed each other
But they shot the town to hell

Cow Patty


11 posted on 06/26/2025 8:57:31 AM PDT by shelterguy
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Cho is female as in Kristi Cho. This CHP duo fired wildly like out of a movie. Cho missed all 16 shots while her male partner was firing through the bathroom wall.
Like they do in the movies.


12 posted on 06/26/2025 8:59:26 AM PDT by dennisw (๐Ÿ’ฏ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ’ฏ)
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To: dennisw; SaveFerris

Cho is female as in Kristi Cho. This CHP duo fired wildly like out of a movie. Cho missed all 16 shots


Stylish!


13 posted on 06/26/2025 9:01:52 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: artichokegrower

CHP officer Kristi Cho fired 16 times missing on every shot. She had never cleared a house before.

How did she get hired and make it through training? How are CHP officers trained these days?


14 posted on 06/26/2025 9:04:57 AM PDT by DFG
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Without warning, Gold reached behind the shower curtain, grabbed a loaded semiautomatic .45 caliber model 1911 handgun, and pointed it at Cho, police said.

The handgun had a live round in the chamber, the thumb safety was off, and the hammer was cocked.

Had Gold pulled the trigger, the firearm would have fired a round at Cho who was standing six feet away.

This is outrageous. What TH was she supposed to do? Take a bullet? Sacrifice her life for this criminal?

15 posted on 06/26/2025 9:06:05 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolutioan?)
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To: kiryandil

Probably on his way to sign up for classes. /s


16 posted on 06/26/2025 9:07:31 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: DFG

Who’d want the job? They’re not “our finest” anymore.


17 posted on 06/26/2025 9:13:10 AM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: shelterguy
From a distance of less than five feet away, Cho shot 16 times and missed every shot, Gold's lawyers said.
She put bullets in the ceiling, the floor, the Jacuzzi and various windows in different parts of the house.
Weaver began firing through walls, shooting 28 times without knowing what was on the other side of the walls, Gold's attorneys said.

The entire situation is a cluster-fxxk. Both of those uniformed idiots need to never again be police officers of any sort.

18 posted on 06/26/2025 9:17:34 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Bon of Babble

Raise a good kid, have him join a branch of the service, die while defending his country, get a folded flag.

Raise a worthless methhead , have him die while committing a crime, get $10 million dollars.


19 posted on 06/26/2025 9:24:44 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: NorthMountain

Maybe they teach the “spray and pray” method at the academy for DEI hires.


20 posted on 06/26/2025 9:30:29 AM PDT by shelterguy
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