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$100 claimed for wrongful shooting death of actor at party?

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This was tragic, but $100? Why? This guy's family members are upset, but trying to score $100 million out of it is trying to take advantage of the situation - at least it seems that way to me.
 
Simple, its call greed. They will say it is to teach the cops a lesson or some crap like that, but come on. They will be taking away 100 million from the city to put in their own pockets when this money could be used for better training of cops, Non lethal weapons, school, etc..
 
It's his own stupid fault.

What moron points a realistic, fake gun at an officer with a gun- or anyone with a real gun for that matter?!
 
Well, he must have been trying an old western trick of pointing it over his shoulder if he was shot in the back. I assume he just didn't comply with any warnings to drop the gun and just proceeded to turn around and walk away. The officers may have acted to protect the other members at the party not knowing that it was not a real weapon. Why take a fatal shot in that situation? Was it the only way to insure a clean shot, aiming for center mass? Great questions, but the article really doesn't disclose al ot of information. It will probably come down to eye witness accounts, especially people who aren't related to the victim.
 
I'm not talking about the cop's guilt. Lets put it this way: If the cop had of come up to the guy and said "Hey sucker, i"m gonna kill you and pretend I thought you had a real gun" and he kills the guy and witnesses say what they heard, it STILL doesn't mean $100 should be taken away from tax payers. If it shoudl that money should be sent to a charity or something, NOT the pockets of his family. Anyway, it wouldn't teach any one a lesson but the cop who shot.
 
smartt, where else are you gonna shoot. By your standards the head is obviously out of the question, the legs and arms are too small to get a good shot on in a sudden thing like that. Of course you have to go for the center mass, otherwise you risk missing and having him get a shot off. Policemen and policewomen are trained to shoot for the center mass.

That's like snipers in war or antiterrorism groups, you shoot to terminate, not to incapacitate. Only if someone is out there in the open with a gun that a sniper can take easily do you shoot away the gun. Even then there still has to be another sniper to shoot him in the leg for interrogation.
 
No, cops are never trained to decapictate as far as I know. I think legally a police officer is actually supposed to kill if they shoot...in some cases maybe you don't have to (so maybe not obliged), but if cop has right to fire his weapon he will not be penalized or punished for fatalities. When someone has a gun at me the last thing I want to do is think about trying to take them in injured.
 
If an officer has just cause to use deadly force (fire a weapon) they are trying to kill the person they are using that deadly force against. A wounded person could still harm you, a dead one can't.
 
Ah, he was shot in the back.

Stop trying to guess what happened.

Either the bloke got shot because he was behaving like an idiot, or that cop shot him was the idiot & wasnt using his nog. It's probably both.

Eventually the truth may come out.

But its a well known fact that cops are pathetically trained as far as avoiding these 'deadly force' scenarios are concerned. Until things improve I think the instructors at the police training colleges should automatically be charged with manslaughter & left to fight it out in court, after every cop killing. After a couple of years with those sorts of policies, cops will eventually be trained to use their head in situations like this.

Afterall if you shoot/kill a cop you are useally autmatically charged then left to fight it out in court, even if it turns out that it was self defence. Why should cops be treated any differently than anyone else. If they don't like it they can leave - there's always ,many more people applying to be cops than there are positions avaliable.

Anyway if training methods are updated a bit of turnover is actually desirable - trying to train new tricks to old dogs is a near to pointless excercise.

 
I was in the Marines, so only know how to take a kill shot. I'm sure cops don't get much training in maming people either. Obiously, for some reason they felt they needed to use deadly force.
I wasn't really commenting on anyone else's comments just on the incident in general. The only reason I was guessing was that the article seemed to be missing alot of important details, and they may not have been exposed to them. Either that, or they were just taking the spin that would create the most hype, a common media tactic. Anyways, you're right it will all come out in the end.
 
I was waiting for that, and that's exactly the comment that the media is always trying to stir up. You said that without even knowing the race of the cops. What would you say if the cops were also black? This probably be more than a wrongful death suit if the cops were white. Of course it would be racial then, right?
 
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