Imagine that you are sitting in your car chillin' with your homies, eating burgers, listening to music, playing the dozens when police officers shoot up your car, killing you best friend, because they claim to have heard gunshots from somewhere in your general vicinity. GI
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Inglewood reaches tentative settlement in police shooting
City will pay $2.45 million to settle civil suit with families of three men shot by police in 2008, one of them fatally. It was one of several such incidents that year that sparked community outrage.
"A Times investigation, published more than two months before the federal inquiry began, found that Inglewood officers repeatedly resorted to physical or deadly force against unarmed suspects. According to law enforcement records reviewed by The Times, Inglewood police shot and killed 11 people, five of them unarmed, between 2003 and 2009."By Andrew Blankstein
5:47 PM PDT, March 23, 2010
The city of Inglewood will pay $2.45 million to settle a civil lawsuit brought by the families of three men who were shot, one fatally, by police officers who mistakenly believed gunfire was coming from the vehicle the men were riding in, according to a tentative settlement.
Michael Byoune died from his wounds, and driver Larry White and passenger Chris Larkin were injured in the shooting by Inglewood officers May 11, 2008, outside a Rally's restaurant. Jacqueline Seabrooks, chief of the 190-member police department, described the incident at the time as "a very tragic outcome."
Carl Douglas, an attorney representing the victims and their families, said he was pleased by the settlement, adding that it brought "some measure of justice" to the victims. "Three young men who had done absolutely nothing wrong had their lives changed forever," he said.
"No amount of money will ever bring back Michael Byoune to his family, but hopefully, through his death, the city will make changes that will help all of the citizens of our community," Douglas said. "For that reason, his death will not be in vain."
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