Live free or die here
That’s Mass. blogger Bruce’s slogan. I dig it. He notes the odd case of Boston getting settling a $5M involving the death of a college student killed by police who used pepper-pellet gun. Boston is then going to attempt to recoup some of the money by suing the maker of the pepper-pellet gun. The manufacturer is FN (who are in the news a lot lately for their FiveseveN pistol). As Bruce notes:
Let me see if I understand this correctly.
1) The weapon that was used to fire the fatal shot was negligently discharged into a crowd by an untrained, non-certified officer, at the direction of his supervisors, acting as an authoritative representative of and on behalf of the City of Boston.
2) The weapon fired a projectile precisely as it was designed, marketed, and implemented to do so.
3) And now the City of Boston seeks to recoup $2 million dollars from the manufacturer of said weapon.
Sounds about right.
