Chicago Pig Who Fatally Shot Quintonio LeGrier Is Suing His Estate for causing "Emotional Distress"
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http://wgntv.com/2016/01/28/police-officer-will-sue-the-estate-of-the-teen-he-killed/
Smh.. Just when I thought these pigs couldn't sink any lower.. This pig is really trying play the victim after he murdered two people in cold blood...
Chicago police officer will sue estate of teen he fatally shot
CHICAGO — The police officer who shot and killed teenager Quintonio LeGrier on the day after Christmas will sue LeGrier’s estate.
Officer Robert Rialmo answered a domestic disturbance call in West Garfield Park and wound up shooting LeGrier and a neighbor, he says, because LeGrier attacked him.
Rialmo’s attorney Joel Brodsky confirmed for WGN-TV this morning that he’ll file a civil suit against LeGrier’s estate in a couple of weeks, citing emotional distress and assault.
LeGrier’s family says there was no justification for shooting LeGrier in the back four times.
Smh.. Just when I thought these pigs couldn't sink any lower.. This pig is really trying play the victim after he murdered two people in cold blood...
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? , ain't no way that man would make it to trial.
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Man, deputy dog must've been completely at his wits end, having to shoot somebody in the back 4 ? times and all, clearly his life was in danger.
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Smh..the audacity.
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He's trying to drag out a huge legal battle that will be very expensive in lawyer fees for the guys family to try to get to a settlement so they don't sue him for wrongful death.
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http://www.thesundaily.my/news/1681693White cop to sue estate of black teen he killed
CHICAGO: A white police officer plans to sue the estate of a black teenager he shot dead because he was traumatised by the fact that he accidentally killed the teen's neighbour in the incident, his lawyer said Saturday.
"The damage is my client feels horrible that Bettie Jones is dead because of the actions he was forced to take," attorney Joe Brodsky told AFP.
"It's affected him greatly. It's a burden he's going to have to carry for the rest of his life."
The Dec 26 shooting came as the US city was reeling from a series of incidents in which police were accused of being too ready to pull the trigger on their service weapons.
The family of Quintonio LeGrier, 19, has repeatedly said there was no reason why police should have opened fire when responding to a domestic disturbance at their home. They have sued both the city and the officer who shot him - Robert Rialmo, 27.
A wrongful death suit filed by LeGrier's father, Antonio, argues that the teen "never had possession or control of a weapon" and was not a threat to Rialmo or anyone else at any point.
Rialmo was standing outside when he opened fire on LeGrier, who was inside the building, the lawsuit said. Antonio LeGrier is also suing for wrongful arrest after police made him leave his dying son in order to file a statement about the incident.
City officials have apologised for the death of Jones, a 55-year old mother of five, but have said LeGrier's shooting was justified.
The city has released few details about the incident except to say that LeGrier was brandishing a baseball bat when he was shot after his father called for help in the wee hours of the morning.
LeGrier, an engineering student who was struggling with mental health problems, had called 911 for help several times earlier that evening but the dispatcher did not send an officer to the house until his father called.
Brodsky said that makes the incident a "double tragedy because if my client had advance knowledge he was dealing with a mentally ill person he may have handled this in a different way."
'Winning the lottery'
Police tactics and racism have been the subject of a national debate since protests erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, in mid-2014 over the shooting death of a black teenager, 18-year-old Michael Brown.
The US Justice Department is investigating how Chicago police use force after the death of another black teenager, Laquan McDonald, who was shot 16 times as he was walking away from officers.
Brodsky insists this case is nothing like that of McDonald, an incident caught on camera which sparked mass protest and led embattled Mayor Rahm Emanuel to fire Chicago's police chief and reform the department.
"He didn't ? him like he murdered him – he shot to save his own life," Brodsky said in a telephone interview.
"Somebody is swinging a baseball bat and they're two feet above you, you're a pumpkin."
Brodsky insists that the outrage which the incident provoked would be muted if people knew the facts of the case.
Rialmo, a former marine who has only been on the force for three years, backed away as LeGrier approached and repeatedly ordered him to drop the bat before opening fire, Brodsky said.
"The round that tragically killed Bettie Jones was a through-and-through," which passed through LeGrier's body before striking Jones, Brodsky said.
"It's not like he shot a spray of bullets. He couldn't see through LeGrier ... he didn't know she was there."
Rialmo also showed restraint by only firing six rounds from a gun which has 16 bullets, Brodsky said.
Brodsky said it was also important to note that the lawsuit is in fact a countersuit.
"Something that bothers Officer Rialmo and myself about the way this is going is the family filed the lawsuit before the funeral," Brodsky said.
"It seems like people believe now that if you have a family member killed by a police officer it's the functional equivalent of winning the lottery ... ever since the City of Chicago paid US$5 million (RM20.71 million) to the McDonald family that seems to be the attitude and it's just crazy." – AFP
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http://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/83189428-storyMom of Quintonio Legrier outraged over Chicago cop's threat of suing her dead son
CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) - The mother of a teenager shot and killed by a Chicago police officer is frustrated about the officer’s threat to sue her dead son.
It would be a retaliatory lawsuit for the wrongful death suit the family of Quintonio Legrier filed against the city.
As if losing her son wasn't devastating enough for Janet Cooksey, now she might have to contend with a lawsuit in which the officer's attorney says the officer has suffered emotional distress as a result of the incident.
“You took my best friend and my only son, and you say you gonna sue?” Cooksey said.
Cooksey was at times at a loss for words as she tried to fathom being sued by the officer who shot and killed her son.
The officer's attorney, Joel Brodsky, says LeGrier attacked the officer, Robert Rialmo, causing him stress.
“My son will never give me any grand-children and he talk about his stress?” Cooksey said. “I had a promising honor student who always talked about all the great things he was going to do and he (the officer) talks about his stress? Where does the disrespect stop?”
LeGrier and a neighbor, Bettie Jones, were killed when police responded to a 9-1-1 call from Legrier's father. But Legrier had called 9-1-1 himself three times before that and the dispatcher hung up on him.
“I'm devastated with her,” Cooksey said about the dispacter. “She did not try to see what was the problem, or even try to comfort him. He dialed 9-1-1, that's the call that that's supposed to assist you and the attitude in her voice was so disrespectful.”
But that frustration pales with Cooksey's feelings towards officer Rialmo.
“Officer Robert, due to you, my son has this date,” Cooksey said, while holder a poster with the date of her son’s death.
FOX 32 repeatedly reached out to Joel Brodsky, but he is involved with a murder trial and was unavailable for an interview.
The one thing he did indicate is that he plans to file the officer’s countersuit to the wrongful death lawsuit in a couple of weeks. -
Will Munny wrote: »He's trying to drag out a huge legal battle that will be very expensive in lawyer fees for the guys family to try to get to a settlement so they don't sue him for wrongful death.
Yup. He's not really expecting to win but he's using a bogus counter suit as leverage for the civil suit against him/the city
Devil pig. -
thats that ?
i feel for that boys family
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Who's the ? lawyer that actually went along with this?
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Who's the ? lawyer that actually went along with this?
who isnt? theyre all blood suckers for hire -
Who's the ? lawyer that actually went along with this?
The lawyer probably advised him to do so. -
This is some new ? , white people are always finding ways to impose their privilege on black people.
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Who's the ? lawyer that actually went along with this?
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-robert-rialmo-quintonio-legrier-20160206-story.htmlCop who shot Quintonio LeGrier and neighbor sues teen's estate, claiming trauma
A Chicago police officer who fatally shot a 19-year-old college student and accidentally killed a woman filed a lawsuit against the teenager's estate Friday, arguing the shooting was forced by the teen's actions and caused the officer "extreme emotional trauma."
Officer Robert Rialmo’s lawsuit was filed Friday amid Mayor Rahm Emanuel's efforts to win back the public's trust following the release of video last fall of an officer shooting to death 17-year-old LaQuan McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014, and other cases of alleged police misconduct.
Rialmo's lawsuit provides the officer's first public account of how he says the Dec. 26 shooting in the West Garfield Park neighborhood happened. It says Rialmo opened fire after Quintonio LeGrier twice swung a bat at his head at close range, and LeGrier was shot when Rialmo saw him raising the bat again and thought LeGrier could ? him if LeGrier hit him in the head with the bat.
LeGrier's father, Antonio LeGrier, filed a wrongful death lawsuit saying his son wasn't a threat, and Rialmo's lawsuit, which asks for damages of more than $180,000, plus court and attorney’s fees, is a countersuit in that case.
Antonio LeGrier's attorney, Basileios Foutris, was incredulous at what he called the officer's "temerity" in suing the grieving family of the college student he shot. Foutris said the lawsuit is “outlandish” and “a new low” for Chicago police.
“After this coward shot a teenager in the back ... he has the temerity to sue him? That’s a new low for the Chicago Police Department,” Foutris said.
Rialmo’s lawyer, Joel Brodsky, said on Saturday his client is going through a grieving process officers experience whenever they fatally shoot someone.
After the shooting, Rialmo was shifted to 30 days of mandatory paid administrative duties under a new policy implemented for all Chicago police officers involved in a shooting following the LeGrier shooting. Those officers are not relieved of their police powers or accused of any wrongdoing by the department.
Last week, Escalante told the Tribune that Rialmo’s administrative duties were extended indefinitely.
“He’s got this extra added burden (with) the death of Jones,” said Brodsky. “He’s going through what I would call the normal grieving process for someone who is forced to take a human life goes through.”
Brodsky said there’s been a presumption that his client did something wrong when he opened fire on LeGrier and the lawsuit was an opportunity to get Rialmo’s side of the story out there, because it hasn’t been disclosed officially.
The lawsuit filed Friday says Rialmo was confronted by Quintonio LeGrier after his father's downstairs neighbor, Bettie Jones, answered the front door of the frame two-flat in the 4700 block of West Erie Street and then moved to go back into her apartment.
After Rialmo stepped into the front door of the building, LeGrier came "barging" out the front door of the second-floor apartment, holding a baseball bat in his right hand, according to the lawsuit. Rialmo had been standing in the front doorway, and when LeGrier got downstairs, he "took a full swing" at the officer, "missing it by inches, but getting close enough for Officer Rialmo to feel the movement of air as the bat passed in front of his face."
Rialmo backed onto the front porch near the top of the front stairs, and "repeatedly shouted orders for LeGrier to drop the bat," but LeGrier instead went onto the porch and took another swing at Rialmo, according to the lawsuit. Rialmo, who was still shouting for LeGrier to drop the bat and had his gun in his holster, then backed down to the bottom of the steps.
LeGrier stood "with the baseball bat cocked back over his right shoulder with a two-handed grip, approximately three feet above Officer Rialmo and approximately three to four feet from where Officer Rialmo was standing on the bottom step of the front porch to the building. Officer Rialmo feared that LeGrier would strike him in the head with the baseball bat so hard that it would ? him," according to the lawsuit.
"Rialmo reasonably believed that if he did not use deadly force against LeGrier, that LeGrier would ? him. Officer Rialmo drew his handgun from its holster, and starting to fire from holster level, fired eight rounds at LeGrier from his 9 mm Smith & Wesson handgun, which holds eighteen rounds, in approximately two and a half seconds," according to the lawsuit.
LeGrier was shot on the left side of his chest, the lower left side of his back, the right buttock, the left arm and suffered graze wounds to his chest and right shoulder, according to the autopsy report on LeGrier. Jones died of a single gunshot wound to the chest, Cook County medical examiner records show.
The "fourth round that Officer Rialmo fired, passed through LeGrier and struck Bettie Jones, who unbeknownst to Officer Rialmo, was standing in the front doorway to the building ... behind LeGrier and partially exposed to any gunfire that might pass through LeGrier," according to the lawsuit.
"The fact that LeGrier’s actions ... forced Officer Rialmo to end LeGrier’s life, and to accidently take the innocent life of Bettie Jones, has caused, and will continue to cause, Officer Rialmo to suffer extreme emotional trauma," the lawsuit states.
Neither the Chicago Police Department nor the Independent Police Review Authority, the city agency that investigates police-involved shootings, have officially released Rialmo’s version of events, citing the ongoing investigation into the shooting.
But the Tribune, citing a law enforcement source, first reported a few days after the shooting that Rialmo told investigators that the teen swung at him with a baseball bat, prompting the officer to shoot LeGrier.
On Saturday, Brodsky said that relatives of those who were shot and killed by the police, such as the LeGrier family, are looking for ways to get paid after the city settled the Laquan McDonald shooting case last year for $5 million.
“Ever since the McDonald payoff,” said Brodsky, “people are treating officer-involved confrontations like a lottery ticket and they’re waiting to cash it in.”
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Honestly more cops need to be shot dead at this point becase there is no good cops.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/leonard-pitts-jr/article59360904.htmlLeonard Pitts Jr.: Cop tries to get money from a dead man — his victim
First he killed him. Now he’s suing him.
I have no idea whether Robert Rialmo, the Chicago police officer who shot 19-year-old Quintonio LeGrier to death the day after Christmas, was justified in doing so. Certainly, the sequence of events Rialmo describes seems to suggest he was within bounds when he opened fire.
According to Rialmo, Bettie Jones, a 55-year-old grandmother, had just let him into the apartment building where he had been called to quell a domestic disturbance when LeGrier, a college sophomore with a history of emotional problems, charged down the stairs wielding a baseball bat. As Rialmo tells it, LeGrier ignored repeated orders to drop the bat and twice swung at the officer’s head, missing him by just inches. That, says Rialmo, is when he opened fire.
If that is, indeed, how it happened, then it would seem Rialmo had no choice.
If.
Unfortunately, as cellphone and dashcam videos have too frequently shown us in recent years, there can be a vast gulf between what a police officer says and what the truth actually is. There is no video here, but there is an autopsy report which indicates that of the six shots that struck LeGrier, one was in his back and another in his behind, which would seem to indicate that at some point during the barrage at least, he was not facing Rialmo. Not incidentally, one of Rialmo’s shots passed through LeGrier and fatally struck Jones, who was behind him.
It is a body of evidence that is, at best, open to interpretation. But about Rialmo’s decision to sue LeGrier’s estate, it’s a lot easier to reach a hard conclusion: Rialmo should be ashamed of himself.
The suit is ostensibly a counterclaim to the wrongful death suits filed by the Jones and LeGrier families against the city. Rialmo is seeking up to $10 million for his “pain and suffering . . .” But this is less a lawsuit than it is an act of gall, a product of the kind of petulance, pettiness and spite we have seen too often in recent years from too many police officers.
Don’t get me wrong. I believe most of the people who get into that profession do so for honorable reasons. In fact, I think that in the field of public service, cops are among the greatest — and last — true believers.
But I also believe that when a police officer meets legitimate inquiries about use of force by engaging in a work slowdown as has happened in New York and Baltimore, or by turning his back on the mayor at a police funeral as happened in New York, or by acting with blatant thuggishness toward protesters as happened in Ferguson, Missouri, or by suing the family of the teenager he killed, as is happening now in Chicago, what is expressed is not public service, but public contempt.
Rialmo, after all, must know that, even in the very unlikely event he should prevail, he will not collect $10 million from the estate of a dead college sophomore. So obviously, he is doing this not as a means of enrichment, nor as a salve for his “pain and suffering,” but rather, as a brushback pitch, a middle-digit salute, and a message.
How dare we question him? How dare we hold him to account?
As noted above, it’s a message that has grown drearily familiar. Perhaps it is time for a message in response:
The police cannot be above the law they enforce. The police must be answerable to the people they serve. I get that that’s unpleasant, but it’s also critical. Effective policing requires that an officer project authority and trustworthiness. Every lie and compromise of justice undermines that. And every act of petulant gall just makes other officers’ work that much more difficult.
So Rialmo has done his profession no favors here. When you project contempt toward the public, what do you expect the public to give you in return? -
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