Slain woman's family sues Minneapolis police for $50M

[TexasTowelie]

July 25 (UPI) -- The family of a woman shot dead by a Minneapolis police officer last year after she made a 911 call has filed a civil suit against the department that seeks $50 million in damages.

The family of Justine Damond says in the suit the officers involved "deprived" investigators and jurors of audio and video evidence related to the July 15, 2017, shooting by intentionally leaving their body cameras switched off.

The lawsuit names both officers, the Minneapolis Police Department, former Police Chief Janee Harteau and current Police Chief Medaria Arradondo as defendants.

It faults the department for a lack of body camera training and "policies to avoid the improper use of deadly force."

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/07/25/Slain-womans-family-sues-Minneapolis-police-for-50M/5801532512905/

[Jake Stern]

1. Good

Minneapolis needs to pay out the ass for this.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Understand that Minnesota Law

only allows 1.4 million pay out. Going to get damn messy.

[IronLionZion]

3. The lawyers are probably well aware of the law

and have ways to deal with it

[Randomthought]

4. that's the law but

the city almost always settles for far more than 1.4 million. MPLS city council just pays the settlements, shrugs their shoulders and and raises taxes