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cops paralyzes kid, is found not guilty/is still a cop

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TheVrolok said:
Do you read what YOU quote? It sure sounded like you were disagreeing with me when I clearly implied that 400k was not nearly enough.
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Look, i really don't give a shit about you and you don't understand the words of the English language that i'm using to explain the simplest thing to you so let's drop it.

Be a good little lad and piss off.
 
Robsasman said:
The cop was going twice the speed limit.

The verdict was just handed down yesterday.

herp a derp
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Big whoop? The teenager still ran out in the middle of the fucking street. Now if the teenager had some kind of mental disorder pre-roadkill then I'd ask different questions.

Still old news.

Herp a derp yourself sir.
 
TridenT said:
Big whoop? The teenager still ran out in the middle of the fucking street. Now if the teenager had some kind of mental disorder pre-roadkill then I'd ask different questions.

Still old news.

Herp a derp yourself sir.
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When you finally learn how to drive, and realize what it means to drive at interstate speeds on a residential road, you can share your opinion. Right now your opinion isn't worth a gnat's fart.
 
TridenT said:
Big whoop? The teenager still ran out in the middle of the fucking street. Now if the teenager had some kind of mental disorder pre-roadkill then I'd ask different questions.
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Yeah but still the cops fault.
and it doesn't say if he ran out in the middle of the street.
 
Robsasman said:
Yeah but still the cops fault.
and it doesn't say if he ran out in the middle of the street.
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Cokinos, who was 23 at the time, was speeding at 56 miles an hour in a 30-mile-an-hour zone when he struck Luis -- who was crossing Springtown Road in front of his home.
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Jaywalkin', I bet. Think of it this way: Teenager waits for car to pass at ANY speed, teenager is fine. Teenager runs out there with car going at any speed, car has to stop and has risk of running teenager over.
 
JohnOfSheffield said:
Look, i really don't give a shit about you and you don't understand the words of the English language that i'm using to explain the simplest thing to you so let's drop it.

Be a good little lad and piss off.
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A lack of comprehension of the written English language, AND an Internet tough guy? Your self-esteem must be sky high! You obviously care quite a bit more than you imply, I mean, here you are letting your frustration/emotion show with no provocation whatsoever. What's it like, being so weak that you must lash out?
 
TridenT said:
Cokinos, who was 23 at the time, was speeding at 56 miles an hour in a 30-mile-an-hour zone when he struck Luis -- who was crossing Springtown Road in front of his home.
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Jaywalkin', I bet. Think of it this way: Teenager waits for car to pass at ANY speed, teenager is fine. Teenager runs out there with car going at any speed, car has to stop and has risk of running teenager over.
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You're being ridiculously dense on this one. I don't know if what the other poster said is true, but if you don't drive, you really just have no clue. And if you do, please stay off my roads. 😛

There is no "jay walking" when it comes to residential streets. You should know this. It would be effing retarded to have a cross walk at every intersection in a neighborhood.

The speed limit is usually 25MPH. There is a big difference between 25 and 50MPH. It would be very easy to mow someone down at those speeds. At 25MPH, you can almost stop on a dime. At 50MPH, it probably triples.

And that's why the speed limit in residential areas is ~25MPH..........
 
Eli said:
You're being ridiculously dense on this one. I don't know if what the other poster said is true, but if you don't drive, you really just have no clue. And if you do, please stay off my roads. 😛
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It's Trident, man, he's just trolling. 😛
 
This is brutal. Had the cop not been excessively speeding, in excess of TWICE the legal speed limit, if he had been doing 25 and this happened. That sucks, but the dude was hauling ass, unacceptable. This chronyism is fucking ridiculous.
 
TridenT said:
Cokinos, who was 23 at the time, was speeding at 56 miles an hour in a 30-mile-an-hour zone when he struck Luis -- who was crossing Springtown Road in front of his home.
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Agree the kid was an idiot. But if the cop wasn't doing 60 he probably could of stopped in time.
 
Better for the kid. I hope there's a civil suit filed next. The cop can continue working & making a salary, which a big chunk should go to the kid.
 
I can't even fathom how he's only awarded $400k. I have a friend who was hit by a negligent driver while he was on his motorbike and he was awarded $2mil. He made a full recovery too!
 
astroidea said:
I can't even fathom how he's only awarded $400k. I have a friend who was hit by a negligent driver while he was on his motorbike and he was awarded $2mil. He made a full recovery too!
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it said the citys liability is legally restricted to 200k per case

which might be understandable for some situations, and maybe there was something absurd that caused them to legislate this, but given the situation, 400k wont last the kid any meaningful amount of time due to medical costs.
 
Robsasman said:
Agree the kid was an idiot. But if the cop wasn't doing 60 he probably could of stopped in time.
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There is seems to be plenty of blame on both sides. If you google a bit you will find the same report the story mentions also concluded that the boy was in the street illegally (not surprisingly, the story left that out) although it didn't detail exactly what the report meant by that.

So if the guy had been driving slower he might have missed the kid. True. Of course the guy could have been in the process of setting a land speed record and it would not have matter if the kid wasn't in the street.

Either party involved could have taken steps that would have avoided the accident. They are both to blame. However, the usual suspects here immediately side on the side they feel sympathy for. The cop haters favor the kid, and those that try and look at the facts favor the cop. 😉

-KeithP
 
KeithP said:
Either party involved could have taken steps that would have avoided the accident. They are both to blame. However, the usual suspects here immediately side on the side they feel sympathy for. The cop haters favor the kid, and those that try and look at the facts favor the cop. 😉

-KeithP
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I know someone who recently got a $300 ticket for expired tags, same state. You tell me what's wrong with this scenario. I don't know the details of the kid being in the road, and honestly, it really doesn't matter. You have no business speeding in a residential area. I don't have a problem with speeding in principle. If you're cruising on a clear interstate at 100mph, I consider that safe enough. 56 in 35 is inexcusable, and he doesn't even have impaired judgment from alcohol to blame. He was at his mental best, and CHOSE to drive dangerously. If any blame is to be assigned to the kid, it's in the single digit percentages.
 
This is a terrible story all around.

That said, some of the opinions in this thread are really off the deep end and a bit too simplistic for the real world.

For those of you complaining about the $400k settlement amount - it sucks, but it happens to be the law in MD. Hell, if they went forward to judgment, the most they could have got was $200k. And for those of you arguing the cop should be responsible for the payment... ok, lets say there's a $500 million judgment against the cop - what do you think are the chances of the family collecting on that? This is a shitty situation, but the settlement was voluntarily entered into by the family, they're getting double what they otherwise could get, and are actually going to get paid (albeit a paltry sum compared to future medical costs).

The cop shouldn't have been speeding. We all agree on that. But I hardly think speeding makes him to be the monster that some people in this thread seem to think. None of us are ever going to know the full truth of what happened. Did the kid dart into the street? Was the cop not paying attention? Was the street well lit? Etc.

I'm not making excuses for the cop here. I'm simply advocating that a little more thought go into the analysis before we all spew "speeders belong in jail!" or "cop should have to pay millions!"

FYI - from the google aerial view, looks like a typical winding Maryland back road with farm land on one side and scattered houses on the other. I used to be scared shitless a deer would jump out when I had to drive on those (though I'm sure I drove over the posted speed limit).
 
Eli said:
You're being ridiculously dense on this one. I don't know if what the other poster said is true, but if you don't drive, you really just have no clue. And if you do, please stay off my roads. 😛

There is no "jay walking" when it comes to residential streets. You should know this. It would be effing retarded to have a cross walk at every intersection in a neighborhood.

The speed limit is usually 25MPH. There is a big difference between 25 and 50MPH. It would be very easy to mow someone down at those speeds. At 25MPH, you can almost stop on a dime. At 50MPH, it probably triples.

And that's why the speed limit in residential areas is ~25MPH..........
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Trident doesn't go outside his basement, let alone drive.
 
Jeeebus said:
The cop shouldn't have been speeding. We all agree on that. But I hardly think speeding makes him to be the monster that some people in this thread seem to think. None of us are ever going to know the full truth of what happened. Did the kid dart into the street? Was the cop not paying attention? Was the street well lit? Etc.

I'm not making excuses for the cop here. I'm simply advocating that a little more thought go into the analysis before we all spew "speeders belong in jail!" or "cop should have to pay millions!"
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Of course we may never know exactly what occured, but it is fairly telling that:

A police investigation concluded that the boy would not have been hit had Cokinos been traveling at the speed limit, however.
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So quite simply the police concluded that had this officer not been breaking the law, the boy would not have been struck. That is a pretty big statement to make, but they made it. I don't think the best approach to this case is "Oh well, it's terrible, but terrible things happen, oh well." I think the issue people are having is that if this were you or me behind the wheel, we'd be serving hard time, and this officer will not be. There is an inequity in the treatment of the man who maimed this child simply because he is an officer of the law.
 
this epidemic of cops robbing, raping, murdering and molesting has to come to and end. if nothing else this case will hopefully accelerate the adoption of sharia law in this country. the only just outcome in this case would be for the cop to be chained to a tree and the father and brothers of the victim be allowed to bang nails into his scrotum
 
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