Family of man shot dead by sheriff's deputy awarded $4 damages

[underpants]

The family of a man who was shot dead by a US sheriff's deputy have been awarded $4 (£3) in damages following a wrongful death lawsuit.

Gregory Vaughn Hill Jr, 30, was shot through his garage door in 2014 by the deputy in St Lucie County, Florida, in response to a noise complaint.

He was found with an unloaded gun, but whether he was holding it is disputed.

A jury ruled that no excessive force was used and Mr Hill was responsible for his own death because he was drunk.

After hours of deliberation, the jury awarded $1 to his mother for funeral costs and $1 to each of his three children.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-44328047

[dameatball]

1. Who the hell picked this jury???

[Turbineguy]

2. A jury of 12

genus florida man.

[dameatball]

3. Pretty much.

White guy with a gun and a MAGA hat rides a bicycle to a school shooting...….nothing.

White guys carrying assault weapons to rallies and protests...……..nothing.

Black guy in his own garage with an unloaded gun........Bang!Bang!

[mythology]

5. If he was waving the gun around (dubious given where it ended up)

There isn't a good way to determine if a gun is unloaded. But given it was in his back pocket, I'm skeptical of the claim he was waving it around. My guess is the gun was visible when he turned to shut the garage door and one cop panicked.

Shooting through the closed garage door is utterly irresponsible.

[dameatball]

6. I admit to not having all the facts. But it sure seems fishy.

[mythology]

4. The jury result confused me

The sheriff was found 1% responsible even though he wasn't there.

The cop who shot through a closed garage door was not. Unless he has x-ray vision, he had no way of knowing if somebody else had entered the garage. And only one of the cops fired. Why did the second cop not fire if the situation required shooting?

I'm not sure how they arrived at that conclusion.

[brush]

7. It's clearly blatant racism. A man shot dead in his own garage because he was...

intoxicated (so they say).

Since when is it a crime to get drunk in your own house?

The jurors are piece of shit racists...pure and simple.

And the four cents award was just rubbing racism in the face of the dead man's family.

[spanone]

8. so being drunk now carries a death sentence?

[underpants]

9. Only 99%

1% is on the shooter