It’s different than the average person because police are expected to go into dangerous situations as part of their job
They are expected to go into dangerous situations which is why they should be held to a MUCH higher standard and that includes not just shooting things because you are scared.
If he was scared, he should have immediately gotten out of the situation and gotten a better grasp of what was happening before he went back in. Scared people do dumb things and someone died because of it when they didn't have to.
You don't even need credible evidence to sue since there is little penalty for filing a claim. The law seems written to encourage abuse.
Don't like your neighbor? "Well, I saw him in a car with a woman, he might have been talking to her about getting an abortion or taking her to get an abortion, I wasn't sure, so I sued"
You might not even need to do anything else like show up for court. If you are lucky, the victim doesn't show up and maybe you get a default judgement against them and get a windfall. If nothing else, you make them waste their time showing up for court to avoid that default judgement.
Got a message that my monthly phone bill is going up by $10 a month. But in return they are offering me an extra 15GB a month... our family has never come anywhere close to our current limit, but there does not seem to be any way out of this "Great Offer!(tm)"... :-/
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dangerous job
This is trouble waiting to happen
You don't even need credible evidence to sue since there is little penalty for filing a claim. The law seems written to encourage abuse.
Don't like your neighbor? "Well, I saw him in a car with a woman, he might have been talking to her about getting an abortion or taking her to get an abortion, I wasn't sure, so I sued"
You might not even need to do anything else like show up for court. If you are lucky, the victim doesn't show up and maybe you get a default judgement against them and get a windfall. If nothing else, you make them waste their time showing up for court to avoid that default judgement.
How to profit off this case
Simple recipe for profiting off this precedence:
1) go to rally by big name person.
2) have friend toss a rock at you.
3) sue person holding the rally for big money.
4) profit.
Probably would help if you were a cop, but that might not be that big a hurdle.
Got a price hike just today
Got a message that my monthly phone bill is going up by $10 a month. But in return they are offering me an extra 15GB a month... our family has never come anywhere close to our current limit, but there does not seem to be any way out of this "Great Offer!(tm)"... :-/