Police Shootings / Possible Abuse Threads [merged]

Jurors have shared their regret over the verdict in a civil trial for four Dallas police officers accused in the death of Tony Timpa.

Officers Dustin Dillard, Raymond Dominguez, Danny Vasquez and Kevin Mansell all interacted with the 32-year-old who called 911 during a 2016 mental health crisis.

Officer Dillard was accused of excessive force for kneeling on Timpa’s back for around 14 minutes, while the others were accused of failing to intervene.

Candice Higginbotham and Megan Williams have now spoken out after their eight-person jury awarded just $1m to Timpa’s 15-year-old son and denied his parents and estate anything. Lawyers for the Timpa family had asked for more than $300m.

“As soon as he read the verdict, I wanted to cry,” 31-year-old Ms Higginbotham told The Dallas Morning News. “It just did not sit well with me from the get-go, and I felt like I should have done more.”

And she added: “I would have given them everything they asked for.”

She said that the pair argued back and forth with the other members of the jury for more than six hours at the end of the seven-day trial.

Police body camera video showed that Timpa, who died within 20 minutes of the officers arriving at the scene, was handcuffed and pinned facedown by the officers as he cried out for help.

When he became unresponsive the officers were caught on video joking about waking him up for school.……

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/timpa-dallas-police-trial-jurors-b2422609.html