Zapata resident files lawsuit against sheriff’s office claiming excessive force [to the point of requiring amputation]
Zapata resident files lawsuit against sheriff’s office claiming excessive force [to the point of requiring amputation]
A Zapata County resident has filed a lawsuit against the sheriff’s office and four deputies for the alleged use of excessive force that resulted in the amputation of his leg.
“His leg bent backwards in the opposite direction that your knee is supposed to bend, so forcefully, that his leg, you can hear it on the video, it makes a horrible crunching popping sound, and it just splits the leg all the way off, except for just a little tissue in the front,” said Barrientos. “The deputies had to apply two tourniquets to save his life because quit literally, Mr. Barrientos was bleeding to death.”
Don't ever forget that cops are animals.
Barrientos is seeking roughly half a million dollars for his medical expenses and his attorney is also asking to take this case to trial.
Only half a million? Hopefully that's just for starters. The victim deserves millions
Right? I really hope he gets more... I can't imagine the trauma that would have caused.
Some states limit the initial lawsuit to actual damages (usually provable medical costs). Once the case goes to trial, a jury can find in favor of the victim and assign punitive damages. This is how the infamous hot coffee case worked. The lady suffered third degree burns, the jury found out that McDonald's had injured a bunch of people with boiling coffee and been warned about it a few more times, and the jury said that $28K wasn't enough and awarded $3M.
I'd imagine something similar here if this went to trial.
Fucking bankrupt the city so they have no choice but to drop the police department. Make those thugs buy use-of-force insurance to ever work again.
Even if the victim would not deserve millions, the responsible institution needs to be fined as much, just so it hurts them. It must be more expensive to fuck up than it is to prevent fuck-ups. So they should take whatever cost they project to properly train officers for de-escalation, double it and use that as a fine.
Agree there are a lot of bad cops yes. But I don’t think it’s fair to say that or rather to imply that all cops are animals.
I dunno why you're getting downvoted. I agree. It's unfair to animals to be compared to such vicious and nasty creatures.
It’s like the saying goes, a few rotten apples spoils the bunch.
There’s no such thing as a good cop.
We need to stop calling them apples. I've never seen an apple get kicked out of the bushel for trying to report rotten apples.
Acab those in the system help prop up the system
This is exactly the same thing as when news hits that another man has raped/murdered a woman or when a red state removes healthcare for women.
Ofc it's not all men or all citizens that are bad, but enough of them are that it causes huge problems.
Instead of saying "not all" we need to stop accepting that there are any ... because it's our problem to fix.
I agree with the cold-cut basis of your statement. The problem is life is like an RPG. If you need to interact with the police force, even if it's you calling them for help, chances are that you're gonna role a 1 and have to deal with a bro-cop.
So what do you say when you see the cops? Fuck the police! Corrupt pigs.