- 8 February 2016
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Chicago police officer sues victim's family over shooting
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35519757
A white Chicago police officer who fatally shot a black teenager
last December is suing
his family for $10m (£6.9m), claiming emotional distress.
Robert Rialmo shot 19-year-old student Quintonio LeGrier six
times, killing the boy's neighbour in the process.
Mr Rialmo says Mr LeGrier swung at him with a baseball bat from
close range, but Mr
LeGrier's lawyers say the two were at least 20ft (6m) apart.
The lawsuit
comes amid a federal investigation
into Chicago's police.
The investigation is focusing on the use of force by officers
and the department's accountability
procedures.
It was launched after weeks of protests over the police killing of a black teenager
by a white officer.
Laquan McDonald, 17, was shot 16 times in 2014 by the officer,
who was charged with murder over a year later.
The inquiry
will take a similar form to those recently conducted in Baltimore and Ferguson, Missouri - as well as more than 20 other departments in recent years, and will look
for systematic
violations of US civil rights laws.
'A new low'
Joel Brodsky, Mr Rialmo's defence lawyer, said it was important
in an atmosphere charged by police shootings to send a message that police are
"not targets for assaults"
and "suffer damage like anybody else".
Mr LeGrier's father, Antonio, filed a wrongful death lawsuit
days after the shooting, saying his son was not armed with a weapon and was not
a threat.
His lawyer, Basileios Foutris, said Mr Rialmo's lawsuit was
"a new low
even for the Chicago Police Department".
"First you shoot them, then you sue them," he said.
The lawsuit provides the officer's first public account of how
he says the shooting happened.
Mr Rialmo, who was responding to a domestic disturbance call, says Mr
LeGrier came charging at him down the stairs and swung a baseball bat at his
head. Mr Rialmo says he backed away and shouted at Mr LeGrier to drop the bat,
but drew his weapon and fired after the teenager swung the bat again.
Mr Rialmo fired six times, killing both Mr LeGrier and Bettie
Jones, a neighbour who was standing behind the teenager.
"The
fact that LeGrier's actions had forced Officer Rialmo to end LeGrier's life and
to accidentally take the innocent life of Bettie Jones has caused, and will
continue to cause, Officer Rialmo to suffer extreme emotional trauma," the lawsuit
says.
Lawyers for Mr LeGrier's father and for Ms Jones say evidence
indicates the officer was 20 or 30 feet (six to nine metres) away when he
fired.
The LeGrier family's lawyer also questions why the teen would
attack the officer since he was the one who called police.
"If you're calling multiple times for help are you going to
charge a police officer and try to hit him with a bat? That's ridiculous,"
Mr Foutris said.
County prosecutors have asked the FBI to investigate the
shooting. The Chicago Police Department has refused to comment.
Such a lawsuit by an officer is extraordinarily unusual, said
Phil Turner, a former federal prosecutor and current defence attorney who is not connected to
the case.
Speaking to the Associated Press news agency, he questioned
whether a judge would give it any merit and said it appeared intended to intimidate Mr LeGrier's
family.
He said he had never heard of an officer blaming his shooting
victim for causing trauma.
VOCABULARY
Sue (v.)
to take legal action against a person or organization, especially by making a legal claim for money because of some harm that they have caused you:
distress (n.)
a feeling of extreme worry, sadness, or pain:
range (n.)
the distance within which you can see, hear, or hitsomeone:
lawsuit
a problem taken to a law court by an ordinary person or an organization rather than the police in order to obtain a legaldecision:
amid (prep.)
in the middle of or surrounded by:
federal (adj.)
relating to the central government, and not to the government of a region, of some countries such as the
A federal system of government consists of a group of regions that are controlled by a central government.
accountability (adj.)
accountable (n.)
Someone who is accountable is completely responsible for what they do and must be able to give a satisfactory reasonfor it:
Procedures (n.)
a set of actions that is the official or accepted way of doing something:
protests (n.)
a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval, or opposition:
inquiry (n.)
(the process of asking) a question:
an official process to discover the facts about something bad that has happened:
systematic (adj.)
according to an agreed set of methods or organized plan:
assaults (n.)
disturbance (n.)
something that interrupts someone or makes someone feelworried:
trauma (n.)
severe emotional shock and pain caused by an extremelyupsetting experience:
prosecutor (n.)
a legal official who accuses someone of committing a crime, especially in a law court
intimidate (v.)
to frighten or threaten someone, usually in order to persuadethem to do something that you want them to do:
Sue (v.)
to take legal action against a person or organization, especially by making a legal claim for money because of some harm that they have caused you:
distress (n.)
a feeling of extreme worry, sadness, or pain:
range (n.)
the distance within which you can see, hear, or hitsomeone:
lawsuit
a problem taken to a law court by an ordinary person or an organization rather than the police in order to obtain a legaldecision:
amid (prep.)
in the middle of or surrounded by:
federal (adj.)
relating to the central government, and not to the government of a region, of some countries such as the
A federal system of government consists of a group of regions that are controlled by a central government.
accountability (adj.)
accountable (n.)
Someone who is accountable is completely responsible for what they do and must be able to give a satisfactory reasonfor it:
Procedures (n.)
a set of actions that is the official or accepted way of doing something:
protests (n.)
a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval, or opposition:
inquiry (n.)
(the process of asking) a question:
an official process to discover the facts about something bad that has happened:
systematic (adj.)
according to an agreed set of methods or organized plan:
assaults (n.)
disturbance (n.)
something that interrupts someone or makes someone feelworried:
trauma (n.)
severe emotional shock and pain caused by an extremelyupsetting experience:
prosecutor (n.)
a legal official who accuses someone of committing a crime, especially in a law court
intimidate (v.)
to frighten or threaten someone, usually in order to persuadethem to do something that you want them to do:
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