So you think if some out-of-control cop wrongfully pulls a gun on you, you deserve a million dollars+ of tax-payer money? Really?
There’s a couple of people on here fantasizing about winning the bad LEO lottery.
Yes. The cop legally was given his authority by the city. the city is culpable for his actions under cover of that authority.
I think that if the citizens of any municipality anywhere do not put in a government that removes such nimrods from their law enforcement, then they deserve to lose huge chunks of financial wherewithal until that becomes a priority. If jealousy over the persons they were willing to trample on in their negligence hitting a windfall also helps them clean their filthy messes up then I am okay with that too.
If departments still routinely fired these dipshits without being drug through the courts we would not be having this conversation. They no longer do so because dipshits just like them employ these people. The taxpayers can change it if they so desire.
The voters have the power, so yeah, I am all for holding them responsible in a way they actually feel.
Sorry that connection between power and responsibility thing is so personally repugnant to you.