This is a horrible president to set. Not good.



He was obviously trying to create a threat to the officers lives. I dont blame them for shooting. They have to protect themselves.

It's California, Of course it makes no sense.

I am sorry, what makes no sense, that the family got paid for a guy trying to get shot?

News flash, Cops don't carry toy guns, you pull a toy, they pull a real one, large disparity in results.

Disparity in results, Darwin Award, same thing.

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Sounds like "Suicide by cop", and his family still got the pay out.



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This is 12 steps towards the cliff of insanity beyond "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight"

I can't believe you are all hanging him out to dry. Read the red above. The only reason Landon Beard is having the trouble he is now, is because Treptow got the first shot off! The only reason the BART cops are in trouble for killing their "unruly, resisting, detainee" is because IT WAS ON FILM.
Suicide by cop was mentioned here a couple of posts from the original poster. I happen to believe there are more effective ways to end one's life (even if you choose suicide by cop) than driving around aimlessly, looking for a cruiser in front of which to make minor traffic violations, in hopes that you will be stopped, whereupon you can ensue a struggle, and reach for a gun which you obviously know to be fake. A real one, after all, might make it less believable, and cause the officers not shoot you.



Was he obviously? Really?
Do cities and attorneys settle cases for $350,000 they can obviously win? This did not go to trial! I certainly do not know what happened, but unlike many judges, and the court of public opinion, I don't take for gospel every word and testimony that falls from an officer's lips. I know most people believe that if you've got a badge, you must be a saint and a crackshot, but I just don't buy that BS.

Something about this (maybe it's just the reporting) doesn't feel right. Maybe he was a villain for making an illegal left turn, and the officers were lucky to catch a drug using, officer beating, suicide-by-cop planning dredge of society. If so, then great.

But maybe not.

I agree. This has the smell of old fish or HammAR's skivvies after a hard hump through the jungle. (:{)

$350,000 sounds about right for the case where the cops cannot substantiate by any means (meaning police transmissons) that the airsoft gun was STILL in the back seat, and they blew the guy away just because they saw it IN THE BACK SEAT.