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Re: Teen fatally crashed ATV after cop used stun gun; family wins $12 million settlement

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Stunningly poor judgement by the cop.

If the victim wasn't armed and wasn't presenting a high risk to anyone else, why use that level of force against them? So often, the US police people seem to wish to express their authority rather than thinking about what is a sensible and proportionate response to a situation. I guess that it is hard to switch from a system designed to respond to potentially armed suspects to one in which a kid is driving an ATV.




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Teen fatally crashed ATV after cop used stun gun; family wins $12 million settlement
By: clo
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Sat, 28 Dec 19 3:54 PM
Msg. 33479 of 54959

Two families will never be the same.

Teen fatally crashed ATV after cop used stun gun; family wins $12 million settlement
JC Reindl
Detroit Free Press

DETROIT – The family of a Detroit teenager who died in a 2017 ATV crash shortly after a state trooper deployed a stun gun on him has settled its wrongful death lawsuit against Michigan State Police for $12 million.

The settlement will go to the family of 15-year-old Damon Grimes, who was driving his ATV in August 2017 on the city’s east side when the trooper, who said he thought the teen was driving recklessly, fired his stun gun at him from the passenger seat of a moving patrol car.

Damon then slammed into the back of a parked truck, and soon after died from his injuries.

Damon Grimes, 15, crashed his ATV on Aug. 26, 2017 after being tased by a Michigan State Police trooper.

In May, the now-former Michigan State Police trooper who used the stun gun, Mark Bessner, was sentenced to 5 to 15 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter. It is a violation of Michigan State Police policy to deploy a stun gun from a moving vehicle.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/27/detroit-atv-teen-killed-settlement/2761263001/


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