Chicago Police Officer Suing the Family of the Kid He Shot and Killed

Originally posted by Henry_Pym
It is negligent when they had described him before the incident as violent and acting erratic. The family should have contacted mental health people long before it escalated to him threatening dispachers over the phone and swinging a weapon at police in the street.

You seem to be arguing that calling the police on a violent and unstable person isn't the proper course of action. When it is.

Circling back: dealing with mentally unstable people is an aspect of being a cop; it's a risk that you sign up for when you join. Suing over it after the fact is being little more than a whiny gold-digger. "I had to do a shitty aspect of my job, I deserve a bunch of free money!". edit: Millions no less. Laughable.

This again is going on the grounds that this kid actually did what the officer claims, when it seems to possibly be in question.

Even if the kid had a bat, does that justify the police-girly-man killing him?

TBF, he only pumped six rounds into him

Originally posted by Adam Grimes
Even if the kid had a bat, does that justify the police-girly-man killing him?

The suing is despicable though. It brings into question how legitimate his story is considering he's after money for his emotional state of murdering someone. And he killed an innocent bystander too...

Originally posted by One Big Mob
Yeah. If it's how he said anyway in close range.

The suing is despicable though. It brings into question how legitimate his story is considering he's after money for his emotional state of murdering someone. And he killed an innocent bystander too...

This story is full of lulz.

It reminds me when the criminal sues the property owner for tripping in the house and breaking his leg.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
This story is full of lulz.

It reminds me when the criminal sues the property owner for tripping in the house and breaking his leg.

😂

Originally posted by Henry_Pym
You honestly think people sign up to join the police with the hope of shooting someone? :/ wow... Wow

I think the moral of the story here is people are just stupid, regardless of their occupation, color, or race.

Originally posted by Henry_Pym
i'm not sure what you mean. Are you suggesting like mishandling of evidence? If so thats a bit paranoid. yes, and if firefighters have to fight a fire in a building with Asbestos they should be able to sue the building owner. The officer is suing the estate, not the family. The "Kid" has money coming to his estate but the combination of mental illness and drugs caused an undue hardship on the officer.

It's like a ref betting on a game they are officiating.

Originally posted by Henry_Pym
Nice to see a fair balenced discussion here. The nutjob kid had a bat. If these parents had either a.) institutionalized their dangerous child or B.) taken care of him assaulting them this wouldn't have happened.

Brought entirely on by failures of parenting.

Originally posted by Henry_Pym
Lol, cry harder. The Nutjob isn't a "kid" either, he was in college... But dont let the facts get in the way

His job isn't psycologist. The parents of this "special snowflake" created a no-win scenario, and now someone has to deal with the ptsd. Please tell me about your first hand experience with dealing with dangerous people as an authority figure.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
This story is full of lulz.

It reminds me when the criminal sues the property owner for tripping in the house and breaking his leg.

I'll give you something worse that actually happened. This family went away on vacation for 7 days. After being gone two days someone tried breaking into the house via the garage. It was one of those houses where the house and garage are connected. Well somehow the thief ended up accidentally locking himself inside the garage. The large garage door was broke and had not been fixed yet and he couldn't get out, he was stuck inside the garage for 5 days until they got home. He survived by eating dog food that was in the garage.

He ended up suing and winning. I guess the case hung on the fact they should of properly fixed their garage, since they had decided to wait until they got back from vacation to do it.

I've also heard cases of people who got in trouble for shooting someone who had broken into their house. But in those cases it was usually where extreme force had been used, like firing 8-12 shots at someone. Also read about a case where a criminal who had been in a car chase with the police and had crashed as a result tried to sue the cops for deciding to chase him.

Stay classy, legal system.

Someone's finding for these cases. The question is, why? Tort reform isn't gonna help if everyone involved is basically in on it, and demanding their "cut"..

This one of the dumbest lawsuits I've ever read about.