Cop who killed college student and 55-year-old mother sues for ‘extreme emotional trauma’

So after the father of the victim who was there, testified that Rialmo was no where near the student he shot :

Rialmo’s account differs sharply in key ways from claims made by LeGrier’s father, Antonio LeGrier, who has filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court. That suit — which called the shooting “excessive and unreasonable — claims the teenager “never had possession or control of a weapon” and “never posed a danger of threat or harm,” according to the Tribune.

The suit claims that Rialmo was outside the two-story building when he fired his weapon but that the teenager was inside, the paper reported. LeGrier’s suit also states that while his son lay on the ground bleeding to death, Rialmo “did not do anything to try to provide [him] medical care.”

Antonio LeGrier’s attorney, Basileios Foutris, told the AP that Rialmo’s highly unusual suit — which is a countersuit in the LeGrier case — is “outlandish.”

“After this coward shot a teenager in the back … he has the temerity to sue him?” he said. “That’s a new low for the Chicago Police Department.”

Rialmo’s attorney, Joel Brodsky, told the Tribune that his client is going through a grieving process and that the lawsuit is an opportunity to tell the officer’s side of the story. He said the presumption is that his client is at fault for the shooting.

“He’s got this extra added burden [with] the death of Jones,” Brodsky said. “He’s going through what I would call the normal grieving process for someone who is forced to take a human life.”

So in attempt to cover up his negligence and haste in shooting a student and grandmother, he is suing the estate of the dead student. This is are the stratified heights of unrestrained police power. It is about that these corrupt, militarized police departments be systematically dismantled and rebuilt as citizen police rather than an occupying force that is more often likely to escalate any situation to the worst possible ending.

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