Discourses Bearing On The Controversies Of The Day

Jurors said the damage award was purposely set low because they believed the chief and his ofО¬Ѓcers should pay it out of their own pockets. Gates was to pay $20,505of the award. The verdict touched off a debate this week among council members over whether the city should pay the damages anyway. The council has routinely picked up the tab for punitive damages assessed against police ofО¬Ѓcers for incidents that occurred while they were on the job. On Wednesday, the new lawsuit further added to the controversy. The new suit is identical to the О¬Ѓrst one but was О¬Ѓled on behalf of two-year-old Johanna Trevino, daughter of Juan Bahena, one of the robbers police killed. Yagman said Trevino was born six days after Bahena, whose real name was Javier Trevino, was killed and can О¬Ѓle the lawsuit under a federal precedent set last year in another case involving the SIS. In that case, in which Yagman is also the plaintiff БЂ™s attorney, a federal appeals court held that a child who was not yet born when a parent was killed by police may still sue for damages over losing a parent ...»