Its actually a good law suit and also for the family of the shot officer. I watched all of the police unit videos on
www.wsaz.com and I am puzzled as to the the whole situation. You can hear over their radio that they knewe who he was and where he lived so a heavey pursuit was unnecessary since they are already burried with pursuit related lawsuits from traffic accidents.
and you can see that the dude bumped intop the cruisers but it was obvious he was innebreiated and probably had no idea what was going on. I wasnt raming triyng to hit officers he was trying to get away.. now this is only an opinion by what I watched. Those officers were shooting so much, I couldnt even count the # of shots. As you watch the video, 1 minute to 90 seconds went by befor they even realized they had shot one of there own. you can see then checking the driver and get the passenger out and walking around anfd some time later you hear the call to dispatch "office down/"
the drunk guys truck was half circle surrounded and it literally sounded like4 or 5 shooters and he didnt even shoot or maybe didnt even have a gun.
you can disable a vehicle by shooting the block and tires without killing anyone"thug "or not. to me it didnt appear to be a thug, just a drunk or junkie.
What really puzzles me is they shot accuratly enough to kill the driver, and miss the passenger, so how did the other officer get shot???
was it accident or was there a problem internally with the police department.